We are pleased to announce the completion of our new office and work buildings at the Sinai Divers Backpackers located in the Masbat bay in Dahab. For our scientific guests we have an office room with 6 workspaces and internet connection. Furthermore, our reef biological courses and other events can be held in another big room or on the huge roof terrace, respectively, where our famous evening events, including scientific talks and film presentations will be a wonderful experience „under the stars“.

For the experimental work of our scientific guests we offer a wet table and we are planning to install a wet lab with aquariums and tanks. The new location of the field station inside the Masbat bay is ideal for reef biological work since we now have different habitats like sandy bottom, seagrass beds, algae zone, patch reef and fringing reef in front of our doorstep. Many entries to the sea are in walking distance and two of them are situated directly in front of our dive center.

Literature at the RSEC Field Station (Dahab):

Books (german):

• Allgemeine Mirkobiologie
• Das Mittelmeer I - Allgemeiner Teil HOFRICHTER
• Das Mittelmeer II – Bestimmungsführer HOFRICHTER
• Die Welt der Korallen LOYA & KLEIN
• DTV-Atlas der Biologie 3 Bände
• Erlebte Unterwasserwelt - WEINBERG
• Fische und Korallen des Roten Meeres – MOJETTA
• Fischführer Indo-Pazifik – DEBELIUS

• Gifte im Riff            - MEBBS
• Korallen – Ein Bestimmungsbuch SPRUNG
• Korallenführer Indo-Pazifik - ERHARDT & KNOPP
• Krebsführer weltweit – DEBELIUS
• Kurzes Lehrbuch der Zoologie – STORCH & WELCH
• Korallenfische der Welt - LIESKE & MYERS
• Leitfaden für das Zoologische Praktikum – KÜKENTHAL
• Muscheln & Schnecken DANCE 1994
• Niedere Meerestiere – SCHUMACHER & HINTERKIRCHER
• Riff-Führer Rotes Meer – LIESKE & MYERS
• Riff-Führer Rotes Meer - DEBELIUS
• Ökologie – MÜLLER
• Schneckenführer Indo-Pazifik – DEBELIUS
• Stoffwechselphysiologie der Tiere – CLEFFMANN

Books (english):

• Acanthaster planci - Major Management Problem of Coral Reefs
• An Updated Classification of Recent Crustacea MARTIN & DAVIS
• Biological Nanostructures and Applications of Nanostructures STROSCIO & DUTTA
• Birds of Egypt and the Middle East PORTER & COTTRIDGE
• Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific VERON 1986
• Corals of the World VERON 2000
• Corals of the World WOOD 1983
• Dynamics of marine Ecosystems – MANN & LAZIA
• Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation ZHURAVLEV & RIDING
• Encyclopaedia of Marine Sciences
• Field Guide to the Reef-building corals of the Indo-Pacific DITLEV 1980
• Henderson’s Dictionary of Biological Terms LAWRENCE
• Integrated Principles of Zoology HICKMANN, ROBERTS & LARSON
• Invertebrate Zoology BARNES
• Marine Ecological Processes – VALIELA
• Marine Invertebrate Biology Laboratory Manual HENTSCHEL
• Red Sea Reef Fishes RANDALL
• Reports on the stony corals from the Red Sea SCHEER & PILLAI 1983
• Soft Corals & Sea Fans FABRICIUS-ALDERSLADE 2000
• Staghorn corals of the world WALLACE 1999
• The Hamlyn Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils HAMILTON, WOOLEY, BISHOP
• The Nature of Design – Ecology, Culture and Human Intention ORR

Reviews & articles:

• Beiträge zur Systematik und Ökologie der Xeniidae (Octocorallia: Aclyonacea) des Roten Meeres REINICKE
• Coral Reefs Research Methods UNESCO
• Corals and Coral Communities of Arabia. SHEPPARD & SHEPPARD
• Community structure and biogeography of shore fishes in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea KHALAF & KOCHZIUS
• Major Reef-building Coral Diseases
• Usw.

In addition we have approximately 500 publications about different topics mainly concerning the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aquaba.