Lophelia.org

Lophelia.org is run by J Murray Roberts and Laura Wicks at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.  The site was first launched in September 2005 as part of the Deep-sea Conservation for the UK project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The first site was designed by Rory MacKinnon and developed by Andrew J Davies and J Murray Roberts the Scottish Association for Marine Science.

The site quickly grew in popularity and within a year of its 2005 launch was reviewed by Science's Netwatch column. In the years since its launch we have continuously added to the site with news and developments in cold-water coral research and conservation around the world.

Five years after it first went online Lophelia.org was extensively redesigned by the Glasgow-based web design company Small-Media-Large and the content updated with exciting new Case Studies, videos and games. 

Support for Lophelia.org comes from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Heriot-Watt University.

Lophelia.org is a contribution to the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity and part of Heriot-Watt University's contribution to the European HERMIONE project.

Please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it about any of the site's content or if you would like to write a new Case Study from your part of the world or get us to link to your cold-water coral webpages.