ResourceFishery Ecosystem Plan for the Mariana Archipelago
This Mariana Archipelago Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP) was developed by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and represents the first step in an incremental and collaborative approach to implement ecosystem approaches to fishery manageme...
ResourceCNMI tide calendar 2013. Featuring marine debris: From trash to art
Metadata Thumbnail "This tide calendar features the artwork of CNMI students who have created wildlife from marine debris and recyclables. It also promotes putting a stop to marine debris in the waters of CNMI. The tide charts and daily tide predictions were produced and co...
ResourceCommonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Three-Year Coral Reef Protection Local Action Strategy
Provides a short-term priority action plan for coral reef management in the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands. Includes strategies for land-based sources of pollution, recreational use, fishery management, and increased awareness and involvement of the ...
ResourceFacilitating community stewardship to protect and advocate coral reef conservation in Laolao Bay and Garapan coastal areas
"To understand the users of Laolao Bay, the Mariana Islands Nature Alliance (MINA) will focus its efforts on six (6) different types of Laolao Bay users: 1. Fishermen; 2. Beachgoers/Picnickers; 3. Divers; 4. Tourist; 5. Visitors; and 6. Local residents. M...
ResourcePrograma de Monitoreo de Arrecifes de Coral de Puerto Rico, Estafo reciente de 22 comunidades de arrecifes de coral
"Durante los pasados 17 anos se han estudiado sobre 60 arrecifes de coral a diferentes profundidades (3 a 35 metros), la mayoria de estos en Areas Naturales Protegidas. Entre estos, 12 se han visitado de 10 a 11 veces, 10 de 2 a 4 veces y 38 solo una vez,...
ResourceCommonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Division of Environmental Quality Office of the Governor Talakhaya/Sabana conservation action plan
The Talakhaya /Sabana Watershed Conservation Action Plan (CAP ) was completed between March 2010 and December 2011. Two workshops were held with members of the CNMI Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Coastal Resources Management (CRM), Department of...
ResourceGarapan Watershed Conservation Action Plan
The Garapan Conservation Action Plan (CAP) is a cooperative effort between regional, federal and local partners with mandates or missions to improve, protect, enhance and conserve the many natural, cultural, social and economic resources within the Garapa...
ResourceDraft Action Plan for Coral Reef Restoration in Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
"The following priority goals were identified to address live coral loss and subsequent decline in reef ecosystem function from ongoing and future threats to Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Island's (CNMI) coral reef ecosystems. The rationale was to ...
Downloadable DataNCCOS National Status and Trends Special Study: Assessing Land Based Sources of Pollution in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, from 2013-08-27 to 2013-08-30
This tabular dataset is the result of field sampling of coral tissues (Pocillopora damicornis) and subsequent laboratory chemical analysis for pollutant levels. The pollutants analyzed included trace elements (Al, Ar, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Pb, Mn, Hg, Ni, Se, A...
Downloadable DataCommonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Division of Coastal Resource Management Long-term Marine Monitoring Program: Benthic, Coral, Fish, and Macro-Invertebrate surveys from 2019-03-05 to 2020-09-29 (NCEI Accession 0286093)
Metadata Thumbnail The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands’ Long-term Marine Monitoring Program (LTMMP) has extensively gathered monitoring data across the region. LTMMP divers have collected data from shallow fore reef habitats, seagrass areas, and back reefs. Usi...
Downloadable DataSeafloor substrate (hard and soft bottom) maps at select islands/atolls in American Samoa, Mariana Archipelago, and the Pacific Remote Island Areas
Metadata Thumbnail Seafloor substrate (i.e., hard vs. soft bottom) from 0 to up to 50 m depths around islands/atolls in American Samoa, Mariana Archipelago, and Pacific Remote Island Areas produced by the NOAA Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD). The islands/atolls include Tu...
Downloadable DataNCCOS Assessment: Benthic habitat maps of Saipan Lagoon, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (NCEI Accession 0162517)
Metadata Thumbnail Highly detailed maps of benthic habitats within the lagoon along the western shore of Saipan were created by NOAA NCCOS. This data collection includes the information used to create these detailed maps, including: 1) a high resolution satellite image, 2) ...
ResourceRain Garden Installation Clinic, CNMI Museum of Culture and History, Saipan, April 25-26, 2012
Rain gardens are vegetated depressions designed and built to accept stormwater runoff from rooftops, roads, parking lots, and compacted soils. Rain gardens use native soils and plants, and are increasingly being constructed by homeowners to reduce the imp...
Downloadable DataNCCOS Assessment: Assessing Land Based Sources of Pollution in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, from 2013-08-27 to 2013-08-30 (NCEI Accession 0241439)
Metadata Thumbnail This tabular dataset is the result of field sampling of coral tissues (Pocillopora damicornis) and subsequent laboratory chemical analysis for pollutant levels in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in 2013. The pollutants analyzed inclu...
Downloadable DataStructure-from-Motion Coral Vital Rates derived from Fixed Site Imagery collected across the Mariana Archipelago from 2014-05-06 to 2022-08-06 (NCEI Accession 0282457)
Metadata Thumbnail The data described here are coral planar area measurements derived from the GIS analysis of benthic photomosaic imagery. A timeseries dataset was produced from an analysis of data collected between 2014 and 2022 in the Mariana Archipelago by the NOAA Fish...
ResourceState of corals and coral reefs of the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador): Past, present and future
We estimated monthly air-sea CO2 fluxes in the Arctic Ocean and its adjacent seas north of 60 degrees N from 1997 to 2014. This was done by mapping partial pressure of CO2 in the surface water (pCO(2w) using a self-organizing map (SOM) technique incorpora...
Downloadable DataPacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program: Rapid Ecological Assessment Quadrat Surveys of Corals around the Marianas Islands from 2003 to 2007
Metadata Thumbnail The Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP), established by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), is tasked with documenting and understanding the status and trends of c...
Offline DataBenthic percent cover derived from image analysis for selected locations in the Pacific Ocean
The data products described herein are part of the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) funded projects aimed at documenting the status and trends for benthic cover and composition on coral reef ecosystems across the U.S. Pacific States and Territo...
Downloadable DataResilience Indicator Summaries and Resilience Scores CNMI JPEG Maps
Maps of relative classifications (low to high) for six resilience indicators and two anthropogenic stressors and a map of final relative resilience scores for 78 sites in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The six resilience indicators are:...
Downloadable DataResilience Indicator Summaries and Resilience Scores CNMI Excel database
Maps of relative classifications (low to high) for six resilience indicators and two anthropogenic stressors and a map of final relative resilience scores for 78 sites in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The six resilience indicators are:...
ResourceEnvironmental assessment specification of annual catch limits and accountability measures for Pacific Island coral reef ecosystem fisheries in fishing years 2015 through 2018
The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) recommended NMFS specify multi-year annual catch limits (ACL) and accountability measures (AM) effective in fishing years 2015-2018, the environmental effects of which are analyzed in this document....
Downloadable DataVectorized Shoreline of Sarigan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 2001, Derived from IKONOS Imagery
IKONOS imagery was purchased to support the Pacific Islands Geographic Information System (GIS) project and the National Ocean Service's (NOS) coral mapping activities. One-meter panchromatic and four-meter multi-spectral data were purchased for each stud...
Downloadable DataVectorized Shoreline of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Derived from IKONOS Imagery, 2001
IKONOS imagery was purchased to support the Pacific Islands Geographic Information System (GIS) project and the National Ocean Service's (NOS) coral mapping activities. One-meter panchromatic and four-meter multi-spectral data were purchased for each stud...
Downloadable DataVectorized Shoreline of Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Derived from IKONOS Imagery, 2002
IKONOS imagery was purchased to support the Pacific Islands Geographic Information System (GIS) project and the National Ocean Service's (NOS) coral mapping activities. One-meter panchromatic and four-meter multi-spectral data were purchased for each stud...
Downloadable DataVectorized Shoreline of Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Derived from IKONOS Imagery, 2001
IKONOS imagery was purchased to support the Pacific Islands Geographic Information System (GIS) project and the National Ocean Service's (NOS) coral mapping activities. One-meter panchromatic and four-meter multi-spectral data were purchased for each stud...