As agreed during the training workshop on protocol for NaGISA observations at
Mombasa (Kenya) in June 2006, India had established the first NaGISA site in
a seagrass bed of the Kavaratti Atoll in Lakshadweep (10° 33’
N; 72° 38’ E).
Sampling and documentation of species was assigned to Miss Terenia Anne Berlie under the supervision of Dr. B. Ingole, an expert on meiofauna and Indian Ocean benthos. Miss Berlie carried out her observations in December 2006, as part of a dissertation for Master’s degree in marine science from Goa University.
Please click here for the location of the site and here for environmental characteristics and species composition of the site.
It is expected
that an arrangement would be made with the Goa University to have a M.Sc. student
assigned sampling of this NaGISA site every year as dissertation work