The ORI team are usually involved in about 50 projects at any particular time. ORI is one of the longest surviving non-governmental research organisations in South Africa, and getting the balance right between profit-oriented consultancies, funded applied research and partially funded or self-funded fundamental research is critical to our continued existence. The list of current ORI projects and their funding source is shown below:

SHORT PROJECT TITLE	RESEARCH FUNDING	PROJECT INCEPTION	PROJECT LEADER	PROJECT TEAM
Statistics of recreational inshore invertebrate fisheries and the commercial oyster fishery in KZN	National	1974	Schleyer	Steyn
National Marine Linefish System (NMLS): KZN recreational data	National	1984	Mann	Maggs, Els, Govender
Marine linefish tagging programme	NGO	1984	Mann	Dunlop, Maggs
Long-term monitoring of mussels (and oysters) in KZN	Provincial	1995	Schleyer	Steyn
WIOFish database	International	2001	Fennessy	Everett
St Lucia marine reserve surf-zone fish monitoring & tagging project	National	2001	Mann	Dunlop
Developing relevant monitoring systems for the Pondoland MPA and monitoring the effectiveness of the Pondoland MPA in the protection of linefish and other marine resources (aka Pondoland MPA Monitoring Project)	National, Provincial	2001	Mann	Maggs
Coastal zone research programme	Provincial	2001	Oellermann	Palmer, MacKay, Rouillard, Young
South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Programme (SWIOFP)	International	2003	Groeneveld	Fennessy
Coral reef programme (incorporating modelling east coast reefs in a changing climate and Biodiversity of East Coast reefs)	National, Provincial	2003	Schleyer	Floros, Montoya, Laing, Hart, Sere, Masse, Hayman
Coral reef health monitoring project	National, Provincial	2003	Schleyer	Steyn, Palmer
Small craft launch sites register - monitoring & data capture	Provincial	2004	Mann	Maggs, Khumalo, Mtetwa
Benthic data collection (St Lucia drought macrobenthos)	National	2005	Mackay	Sheppard, Sam Mselegu
Ecological changes to Lake Nhlabane	Consultancy	2005	Mackay
Tugela Bank Functioning	National	2007	Fennessy	MacKay, Steyn, Wilkinson, Hayes
ACEP / Ecosystem Functioning in the KZN Bight	National	2008	Fennessy	MacKay, Hein, Untiedt
Mozambique Linefish Management Plan and Risk assessment for Mozambique Fisheries	International	2009	vd Elst
SWIOFP Component 3 – Demersal fisheries	International	2009	Fennessy
SWIOFP Component 5 - Biodiversity	International	2009	vd Elst	Fennessy, MacKay
SWIOFP Component 2 – Crustacean fisheries	International	2010	Groeneveld	Fennessy, Robey
SWIOFP shark project	International	2010	Groeneveld	Foulis
SWIOFP crustaceans project	International	2010	Groeneveld	Fennessy, Robey
Coral diseases	Regional	2010	Schleyer	Sere
Coral reproduction	Regional	2010	Schleyer	Masse
ACEP Work Package 4 : Macrobenthos	National	2010	MacKay	Untiedt, Hein
ACEP Work Package 7 : Modelling	National	2010	Fennessy
Monitoring climate change effects on the Mbashe Estuary	National	2010	MacKay	Sheppard
Linefish species profiles	National	2011	Mann
Basic overview of KZN estuaries	Provincial	2011	MacKay	Sheppard
SWIOFP king mackerel project	International	2011	Mann	Lee
SWIOFP Shallow-water lobster genetics project	International	2011	Schleyer
Coral economics	National	2012	Schleyer	Laing
Coral genetics	National	2012	Schleyer	Montoya-Maya
Coral recruitment	National	2012	Schleyer	Hart
Coral reef geology	National	2012	Schleyer	Hayman
Biophysical study of the Nonoti Estuary	NGO	2012	MacKay	Sheppard
Habitat and biophysical survey of the Zinkwazi Estuary	NGO	2012	Mackay	Sheppard
ACEP III: The Suitcase project	National	2012	Fennessy	Mackay, Schleyer
SWIOFP langoustine genetics	International	2012	Groeneveld