2002 Status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key macroinvertebrates (NODC Accession 0001976)

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Title:
2002 Status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key macroinvertebrates (NODC Accession 0001976)
Abstract:
This study demonstrates the important role that long term monitoring programs can play in understanding the natural variability and long term trends in the coral reefs of American Samoa. One benefit of this study is that it provides an overview of the condition of the reefs on all the main volcanic islands simultaneously. It also provides a broad scale perspective for understanding the results of the site dedicated monitoring programs in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Pago Pago Harbour (Aua transect: see below), which provide a much longer term perspective on the reefs of Tutuila (85 and 25 years respectively).

This dataset includes the status report (PDF and MS Word) and raw survey data (MS Excel) made in 1996 and 2002. Survey sites inlcude all islands of American Samoa, although remote atolls of Swains and Rose were not made in 2002. Surveys were also made in the country of Western Samoa.

Supplemental_Information:
Entry_ID Unknown Sensor_Name SCUBA Source_Name manual Project_Campaign: American Samoa Coral Ecosystem Assessment Originating_Center Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Storage_Medium MS Word and Excel Online_size: 15434 kbytes
  1. How might this data set be cited?
    Green, Dr. Alison, Unknown, 2002 Status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key macroinvertebrates (NODC Accession 0001976): None None, US National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

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  2. What geographic area does the data set cover?
    West_Bounding_Coordinate: -172.90
    East_Bounding_Coordinate: -168.1333
    North_Bounding_Coordinate: -11.03
    South_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.3662
  3. What does it look like?
  4. Does the data set describe conditions during a particular time period?
    Beginning_Date: 01-Oct-1994
    Ending_Date: 31-Dec-2002
    Currentness_Reference: ground condition
  5. What is the general form of this data set?
  6. How does the data set represent geographic features?
    1. How are geographic features stored in the data set?
    2. What coordinate system is used to represent geographic features?
  7. How does the data set describe geographic features?
    Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
    The original files were placed in ../../data/originals ASCII copies (either text or comma separated version) are in ../../data/ASCII.

    Filenames are descriptive (ie, the appendix number). Each file is self-descriptive.

    Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: none

Who produced the data set?

  1. Who are the originators of the data set? (may include formal authors, digital compilers, and editors)
  2. Who also contributed to the data set?
    Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa
  3. To whom should users address questions about the data?
    Dr. Alison Green
    Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
    Biologist
    PO Box 1379
    Townsville, Queensland
    Australia

    (+61-7) 4729-8490 (voice)
    agreen@tnc.org

Why was the data set created?

Provide a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the coral ecosystems in 2002.

How was the data set created?

  1. From what previous works were the data drawn?
  2. How were the data generated, processed, and modified?
    Date: Unknown (process 1 of 1)
    An extensive description is given in Chapter "Methods", page 23: ../../data/originals/AlisonGreens2002report.pdf (original) ../../data/originals/AlisonGreens2002report.doc (copy) ../../data/ASCII/AlisonGreens2002report.txt (copy)

    Briefly: Reef Fish Communities: Visual census techniques along five replicate 50mX3m transects along the reef slope (depth=10m).

    Benthic Communities: Point-based method for habitat description, used to estimate the percent coverage of each substratum type on each of the fish transects. Coral bleaching surveys followed a standard form developed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

    Key Macroinvertebrates: A separate pass of the transects was conducted to quantify the abundance and size of the two key macroinvertebrates: giant clams and crown-of-thorns starfish. Each individual was counted, its size measured and recorded on underwater paper.

    Green, A.L. 2002 Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 85pp

    Green, A.L. 1996a Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 120pp

    Green, A.L. 1996b A preliminary assessment of the status of the coral reefs on Upolu Island, Western Samoa. Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 12pp

    Green, A.L. 1996c Coral reefs of Swains Island, American Samoa. Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 2pp.

    Green, A.L. 1996d Spatial, temporal and ontogenetic patterns of habitat use by coral reef fishes (Family Labridae) Marine Ecology Progress Series 133: 1-11

    Green, A., Craig, P. 1999 Population size and structure of giant clams at Rose Atoll, an important refuge in the Samoan Archipelago. Coral Reefs 18: 205-211

    Green, A., Hunter, C. 1998 A preliminary survey of the coral reef resources in the Tutuila Unit of the National Park of American Samoa. Final report to the U.S. National Park Service, Pago Pago, American Samoa, 42pp.

    Green, A.L., Birkeland, C.E., Randall, R.H. 1999 Twenty years of disturbance and change in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa. Pacific Science 53(4): 376400.

    Green, A.L., Birkeland, C.E., Randall, R.H., Smith, B.D., Wilkins, S. 1997a. 78 years of coral reef degradation in Pago Pago Harbour: a quantitative record. Proc. 8th Int Coral Reef Sym 2: 1883-1888.

    Green, A.L., Burgett, J., Molina, M., Palawski, D., Gabrielson, P. 1997b The impact of a ship grounding and associated fuel spill at Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, American Samoa. A report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii, 60 pp. Person who carried out this activity:

    Dr. Alison Green
    Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
    Biologist
    PO Box 1379
    Townsville, Queensland
    Australia

    (+61-7) 4729-8490 (voice)
    agreen@tnc.org
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  1. How well have the observations been checked?
  2. How accurate are the geographic locations?
  3. How accurate are the heights or depths?
  4. Where are the gaps in the data? What is missing?
    none
  5. How consistent are the relationships among the observations, including topology?
    see lineage, process step

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Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: Dataset credit required
  1. Who distributes the data set? (Distributor 1 of 1)
    US National Oceanographic Data Center
    User Services
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    NOAA and NODC make no warranty, expressed or implied, regarding these data, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA and NODC cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data.
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  5. Is there some other way to get the data?
    Contact NODC User Services via E-mail: NODC.Services@noaa.gov
  6. What hardware or software do I need in order to use the data set?
    Standard Internet browser

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Dates:
Last modified: 26-Jul-2023
Metadata author:
Mr. Patrick C. Caldwell
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