The Dahab Marine Research Center (DMRC), located at the South Sinai Peninsula, facilitates excursions as well as courses in marine biology and environmental conservation for student groups from international universities but also the general public.

The centre provides facilities and logistic research in the whole Red Sea and is equipped with a classroom, several exhibits, a library, optical devices, dry and wet laboratories with running seawater, aquaculture facilities and office space.

Next to an on-site supervision and logistic support of scientific projects by a marine biologist and ongoing university excursions, the DMRC offers courses on coral reef ecosystems, their importance, threats and protection, biologically guided dives as well as guided tours to the fossil reefs and the National Parks Nabq and Ras Mohammed.

All projects at the DMRC are conducted in close coordination with the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), the concerned national park authorities (mainly Marine Resource Protected Area Nabq) and in cooperation with the local communities. The Association is grateful to the Dive Centre Dive In Dahab for its co-operation and financial support.

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A team lead by Prof. Dr. Nico Michiels from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, is investigating the functional importance of red fluorescence in reef fish. Combining behavioral experiments with field observations we aim at understanding whether red fluorescence is used in the context of predator-prey interactions. Our model system is a very small (2 cm) tripterygiid reef fish. During the last few days a group of 4 students has prepared an experimental setup and collected fish from the wild for behavioral observations. For more info visit the website: http://www.evoeco.uni-tuebingen.de

Photo: Enneapterygius pusillus (Prof. Dr. Nico Michiels)