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The Dahab
Marine Research Center (DMRC), located at the South
Sinai Peninsula, provides facilities and logistic
research in the whole Red Sea. It is equipped with 2 classrooms
(including several
exhibits and optical devices), dry and wet laboratories with
running seawater, aquaculture facilities,
office space and a library.
Next to university
and school excursions of international institutes, on-site supervision and logistic support
of scientific projects by marine biologists, the DMRC offers courses on
reef ecology, biologically guided dives, 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 and in cooperation with
the local communities. The association is grateful to the
Dive Center
DiveIn
Dahab for its co-operation and financial support.
Have a look at our
Timetable 2010
NEWS - CURRENT PROJECTS AT THE DMRC
Dr. Jürgen Herler and coworker,
University of Vienna:
"Adaptions and mutualism between reef-building
corals and associated fishes"
Dr. Albert Ros and coworker, University
of Neuchatel:
"Go cleanerfish! Astudy into motivational
factors of reef fish to interact with cleaner
wrasses"
Marc Steinegger, PhD thesis, University
of Neuchatel:
"Cooperative hunting behavior and habitat
dependent food intake in the yellow saddle
goatfish"
Denise Schwabe, Bachelor thesis,
University of Tübingen:
"Graph-theory in Dentropoma maxima"
Kathrin-Lisa Nägele, Bachelor thesis,
University of Tübingen:
"Juvenile-adult dimorphism in Angelfish and its
role in intra specific communication and
prevention of aggression"
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