Summer 2004 Coral Bleaching Event on Tutuila, American Samoa (NODC Accession 0001955)

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information
• CoRIS

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Douglas Fenner

Publication_Date: Unpublished material

Title:

Summer 2004 Coral Bleaching Event on Tutuila, American Samoa (NODC Accession 0001955)

Online_Linkage: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov

Description:

Abstract:

American Samoa's coral reefs have been impacted by a variety of major events, including periodic severe hurricanes, the most recent of which was Hurricane Heta, which was closest on Jan 6, 2004. Other events have included a Crown-of-Thorns seastar outbreak in 1974 and night scuba spearfishing from 1994-2002. Mass coral bleaching occurred in 1994 and then again in the summers of 2002 and 2003, and the bleaching was severe enough to kill some corals. Bi-weekly surveys were made of the reefs at Airport Lagoon. During the peak of the summer bleaching, surveys were made at five other locations. The data given with this data set refer to the percent corals bleached within the survey area.

Purpose:

To understand the annual cycle and status in 2004 of coral bleaching at Airport Lagoon, American Samoa.

Supplemental_Information:

NOAA Supplemental:Entry_ID: Unknown Sensor_Name: SCUBA Source_Name: manual Project_Campaign: coral bleaching Originating_Center: Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Storage_Medium: MS Word and Excel Online_size: 100 kbytes

Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0001955

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20031210

Ending_Date: 20041205

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None Planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.8500

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.5500

North_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.2500

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.3833

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NCEI Geoportal Filter

Theme_Keyword: CoRIS_Metadata

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Coastal studies

Theme_Keyword: coral reef

Theme_Keyword: coral bleaching

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus

Theme_Keyword: Numeric Data Sets > Habitats

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Coastal Habitat

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat

Theme_Keyword:

EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Coral Diseases > Bleaching

Theme_Keyword:

EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Damage Assessment > Visual

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: biota

Theme_Keyword: 002

Theme_Keyword: oceans

Theme_Keyword: 014

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Place Thesaurus

Place_Keyword:

OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Tutuila Island > Alofau (14S170W0054)

Place_Keyword:

COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Tutuila Island > Alofau (14S170W0054)

Place_Keyword:

OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Pago Pago Harbor > Faga'alu (14S170W0005)

Place_Keyword:

COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Tutuila Island > Faga'alu (14S170W0005)

Place_Keyword:

OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Tutuila Island > Fagatele Bay (14S170W0002)

Place_Keyword:

COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Tutuila Island > Fagatele Bay (14S170W0002)

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: South Pacific

Place_Keyword: American Samoa

Place_Keyword: Tutuila Island

Place_Keyword: Nuu'uli

Place_Keyword: Alofau

Place_Keyword: Airport Lagoon

Place_Keyword: Faga'alu

Place_Keyword: Utelei

Place_Keyword: Fagatele

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region

Place_Keyword: AmSam

Stratum:

Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Stratum_Keyword: Benthic

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.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Douglas Fenner

Contact_Organization: Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa

Contact_Position: Chief Biologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 3730

City: Pago Pago

State_or_Province: American Samoa

Postal_Code: 96799

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 684 633 4456

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: douglasfenner@yahoo.com

Data_Set_Credit: Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa

Native_Data_Set_Environment: MS Word and Excel

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report: see lineage, process step

Completeness_Report: none

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: P. Craig

Originator: C. Birkeland

Originator: S. Belliveau

Publication_Date: 2001

Title:

High temperatures tolerated by a diverse assemblage of shallow-water corals in American Samoa

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Coral Reefs

Issue_Identification: 20: 185-189

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2001

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Craig and others, 2001

Source_Contribution: temperature study

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: T. J. Goreau

Originator: R. L. Hayes

Publication_Date: 1994

Title:

A survey of coral reef bleaching in the south central Pacific during 1994

Other_Citation_Details:

Report to Coral Reef Intiative, U.S. Dept of State. 118 pp, 54 figures.

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1994

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Goreau and Hayes, 1994

Source_Contribution: coral reef bleaching study

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. Green

Publication_Date: 2002

Title:

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

Other_Citation_Details:

Report to Dept. Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa. 86 pp.

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2002

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green, 2002

Source_Contribution: coral reef status study

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The percentage of bleached colonies was estimated visually and mentally following a roughly one-hour swim in the lagoon along roughly the same path. The swimming rate was steady and moderate for a SCUBA diver wearing fins. This method results in course resolution. Accuracy subjectly estimated at 10-20%. Craig, P., Birkeland C, Belliveau S. 2001. High temperatures tolerated by a diverse assemblage of shallow-water corals in American Samoa. Coral Reefs 20: 185-189. Goreau, T. J., and Hayes, R. L. 1994. A survey of coral reef bleaching in the south central Pacific during 1994. Report to Coral Reef Intiative, U.S. Dept of State. 118 pp, 54 figures. Green, A. 2002. Status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites (benthic communities, fish communities, and key macroinvertebrates). Report to Dept. Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa. 86 pp.

Process_Date: Unknown

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Douglas Fenner

Contact_Organization: Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa

Contact_Position: Chief Biologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 3730

City: Pago Pago

State_or_Province: American Samoa

Postal_Code: 96799

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 684 633 4456

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: douglasfenner@yahoo.com

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Original data received in MS Excel spreadsheet in file, ../../data/Bleaching.xls. A redundant ASCII copy was placed in ../../data/Bleaching.csv.The original report was provided in MS Word,../../data/2004_Bleaching_report.docwith a redundant ASCII copy in../../data/2004_Bleaching_report.txt

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: none

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: NOAA/NESDIS/National Oceanographic Data Center

Contact_Person: Data Access Group, User Services Team

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: SSMC-3 Fourth Floor

Address: 1315 East West Highway

City: Silver Spring

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20910-3282

Country: USA

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Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20200329

Metadata_Review_Date: 20081113

Metadata_Future_Review_Date: 20060801

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Mr. Patrick C. Caldwell

Contact_Organization: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC

Contact_Position: Hawaii/US Pacific Liaison

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: 1000 Pope Road, MSB 316

Address: Dept. of Oceanography

Address: University of Hawaii at Manoa

City: Honolulu

State_or_Province: Hawaii

Postal_Code: 96822

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (808)-956-4105

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (808) 956-2352

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: caldwell@hawaii.edu

Hours_of_Service: 8 AM to 5 PM weekdays

Contact_Instructions: check services@nodc.noaa.gov if not available

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

CoRIS:

CoRIS_ID: 20081112102824

CoRIS_Children: None

CoRIS_Beginning_Date: 20031210

CoRIS_Ending_Date: 20041205

CoRIS_Metadata_Link:

https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/nodc_0001955.html

CoRIS_Tracking_ID: 2377