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 0001973)

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What does this data set describe?

1. How might this data set be cited?
   Green, Dr. Alison, Unpublished material, 2002 Status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities,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 0001973).

   Online Links:

   • https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/1973

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/originalsASCII copies (either text or comma separated version) are in ../../data/ASCII.Filenames are descriptive (ie, the appendix number). Each file isself-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)
   • Dr. Alison Green
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?

   Green (1996) (source 1 of 13)

   Green, A. L., 1996, Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago.

   Other_Citation_Details: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: coral reef status report

   Green (1996) (source 2 of 13)

   Green, A. L., 1996, A preliminary assessment of the status of the coral reefs on Upolu Island, Western Samoa.

   Other_Citation_Details:

   Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 12pp

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: coral reef status preliminary assessment

   Green (1996) (source 3 of 13)

   Green, A. L., 1996, Coral reefs of Swains Island, American Samoa.

   Other_Citation_Details:

   Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 2pp.

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: coral reef study

   Green (1996) (source 4 of 13)

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

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: study of coral reef fish habitat use patterns

   Green and Craig (1999) (source 5 of 13)

   Green, A., and 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.

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: giant clam population study

   Green and Hunter (1998) (source 6 of 13)

   Green, A., and Hunter, C., 1999, A preliminary survey of the coral reef resources in the Tutuila Unit of the National Park of American Samoa.

   Other_Citation_Details:

   Final report to the U.S. National Park Service, Pago Pago, American Samoa, 42pp.

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: coral reef resource study

   Green and others (1999) (source 7 of 13)

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

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary study

   Green and others (1997) (source 8 of 13)

   Green, A. L., Birkeland, C. E., Randall, R. H., Smith, B. D., and Wilkins, S., 1997, 78 years of coral reef degradation in Pago Pago Harbour: a quantitative record. Proc..

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: coral reef degradation study

   Green and others (1997) (source 9 of 13)

   Green, A. L., Burgett, J., Molina, M., Palawski, D., and Gabrielson, P., 1997, The impact of a ship grounding and associated fuel spill at Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, American Samoa.

   Other_Citation_Details:

   A report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii, 60 pp.

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: ship grounding and oil spill impact study

   Kinzie (1978) (source 10 of 13)

   R. A. Kinzie, III, and Snider, R. H., 1978, A simulation study of coral reef survey methods: Coral reefs: research methos. UNESCO, eds: Dr.R. Stoddart and R.E. Johannes..

   This is part of the following larger work.

   UNESCO, Dr.R. Stoddart, ed., and R.E. Johannes, ed., 1978, Coral Reefs: Research Methods.

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: coral reef survey study methods

   Pielou (1966) (source 11 of 13)

   Pielou, E., 1966, The measurement of diversity in different types of biological collections: J. Theor. Biol. 13:131-144.

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: diversity of measurement in biological collections

   Green (2002) (source 12 of 13)

   Green, A. L., 2002, Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago.

   Other_Citation_Details: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: coral reef status report

   Siegel, 1956 (source 13 of 13)

   Siegel, S., 1956, Nonparametric Statistics for the BehavioralSciences: McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.

   Type_of_Source_Media: paper

   Source_Contribution: statistics text

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, 85ppGreen, 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, 120ppGreen, 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, 12ppGreen, 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: 1-11Green, A., Craig, P. 1999 Population size and structure of giant clams at Rose Atoll, an important refuge in the Samoan Archipelago. Coral Reefs 18: 205-211Green, 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

3. What similar or related data should the user be aware of?

How reliable are the data; what problems remain in the data set?

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

How can someone get a copy of the data set?

Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

NOAA and NODC would appreciate recognition as the resource from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these data.

1. Who distributes the data set? (Distributor 1 of 1)
   
   NOAA/NESDIS/National Oceanographic Data Center

   Attn: Data Access Group, User Services Team

   SSMC-3 Fourth Floor

   Silver Spring, MD
   

   USA

   301-713-3277 (voice)

   301-713-3302 (FAX)

   services@nodc.noaa.gov

   Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday

2. What's the catalog number I need to order this data set? Downloadable Data
3. What legal disclaimers am I supposed to read?

   NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, 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 these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system.

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     Network links:	https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/1973

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Who wrote the metadata?

Dates:

Last modified: 29-Mar-2020
Last Reviewed: 14-Oct-2008

Metadata author:

Mr. Patrick C. Caldwell

NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC

Hawaii/US Pacific Liaison

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Metadata standard:

FGDC CSDGM (FGDC-STD-001-1998)