In 2015 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) redirected its programming to address climate change, with a focus on the oceans. For the past two years TBA21 Academy, the foundation’s oceanic research division, has been collaborating with the University of the West Indies to create a marine lab in East Portland, Jamaica, to study the health of the reefs, fish stocks and pelagic activity, and the possibility of a future revitalization of the area’s marine life. The Alligator Head Marine Lab has commissioned top marine scientists from Jamaica to prepare numerous reports on the area that lies between the Blue Lagoon and Trident, approximately six kilometers of otherwise pristine coastline. Among the findings presented in these reports are a decline in fish stocks to the point of possible local extinction of certain species, as well as evidence of dying reefs and polluted water.