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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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Dr. Alison Green

Publication_Date: Unpublished material

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 0001973)

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

Description:

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 include 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.

Purpose:

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

Supplemental_Information:

NOAA Supplemental: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

Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0001973

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19941001

Ending_Date: 20021231

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -172.90

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -168.1333

North_Bounding_Coordinate: -11.03

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.3662

Keywords:

Theme:

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Theme_Keyword: CoRIS_Metadata

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Coastal studies

Theme_Keyword: coral reef

Theme_Keyword: fish species list

Theme_Keyword:

mean adult species richness of each of the 12 most abundant fish families

Theme_Keyword:

mean adult density of each of the 12 most abundant fish families

Theme_Keyword:

mean adult biomass of each of the 12 most abundant fish families

Theme_Keyword: mean density of most abundant juvenile fishes

Theme_Keyword: substratum cover (percent) by category

Theme_Keyword: mean density of crown of thorns starfish

Theme_Keyword: mean density of the most abundant species of butterflyfish

Theme_Keyword: observations of coral bleaching on the reef slope

Theme:

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Theme_Keyword: Numeric Data Sets > Biology

Theme:

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs

Theme_Keyword:

EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Mapping > Habitat Mapping

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: biota

Theme_Keyword: 002

Theme_Keyword: oceans

Theme_Keyword: 014

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: South Pacific

Place_Keyword: American Samoa

Place_Keyword: Western Samoa

Place_Keyword: Ofu

Place_Keyword: Ofu Village

Place_Keyword: Asaga

Place_Keyword: Hurricane House

Place_Keyword: Vaoto Lodge lagoon

Place_Keyword: Olosega

Place_Keyword: Olosega Village

Place_Keyword: Sili

Place_Keyword: Ta'u

Place_Keyword: Faga

Place_Keyword: Lepula

Place_Keyword: Afuli

Place_Keyword: Fagamalo

Place_Keyword: Aunu'u

Place_Keyword: Tutuila

Place_Keyword: Fagaitua

Place_Keyword: Fatumafuti

Place_Keyword: Nu'uuli

Place_Keyword: Fagatele

Place_Keyword: Leone

Place_Keyword: Amanave

Place_Keyword: Faga'alu

Place_Keyword: Onesosopo

Place_Keyword: Aua

Place_Keyword: Utulei

Place_Keyword: Leloaloa

Place_Keyword: Aoa

Place_Keyword: Masefau

Place_Keyword: Vatia

Place_Keyword: Fagasa

Place_Keyword: Fagafue

Place_Keyword: Fagamalo

Place_Keyword: Swains Island

Place_Keyword: Rose Atoll

Place_Keyword: Upolu

Place_Keyword: Lefaga

Place_Keyword: Sa'anapu

Place_Keyword: Ewa

Place_Keyword: Fagaloa

Place_Keyword: Faleasi'u

Place_Keyword: Lefaga

Place_Keyword: Poutari

Place_Keyword: Vaitele

Place:

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Place_Keyword:

OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > American Samoa > American Samoa (14S170W0000)

Place_Keyword:

COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > American Samoa (14S170W0000)

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: Dr. Alison Green

Contact_Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Contact_Position: Biologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 1379

City: Townsville

State_or_Province: Queensland

Postal_Code: 4810

Country: Australia

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (+61-7) 4729-8490

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: agreen@tnc.org

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: A. L. Green

Publication_Date: 1996

Title: 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_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1996

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green (1996)

Source_Contribution: coral reef status report

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. L. Green

Publication_Date: 1996

Title:

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_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1996

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green (1996)

Source_Contribution: coral reef status preliminary assessment

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. L. Green

Publication_Date: 1996

Title: 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_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1996

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green (1996)

Source_Contribution: coral reef study

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. L. Green

Publication_Date: 1996

Title:

Spatial, temporal and ontogenetic patterns of habitat use by coral reef fishes (Family Labridae)

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Marine Ecology Progress

Issue_Identification: Series 133

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1996

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green (1996)

Source_Contribution: study of coral reef fish habitat use patterns

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. Green

Originator: P. Craig

Publication_Date: 1999

Title:

Population size and structure of giant clams at Rose Atoll, an important refuge in the Samoan Archipelago

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Coral Reefs

Issue_Identification: 18: 205-211

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1999

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and Craig (1999)

Source_Contribution: giant clam population study

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. Green

Originator: C. Hunter

Publication_Date: 1999

Title:

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_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1998

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and Hunter (1998)

Source_Contribution: coral reef resource study

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. L. Green

Originator: C. E. Birkeland

Originator: R. H. Randall

Publication_Date: 1999

Title:

Twenty years of disturbance and change in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Pacific Science

Issue_Identification: 53:4

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1999

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and others (1999)

Source_Contribution: Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary study

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. L. Green

Originator: C. E. Birkeland

Originator: R. H. Randall

Originator: B. D. Smith

Originator: S. Wilkins

Publication_Date: 1997

Title: 78 years of coral reef degradation in Pago Pago Harbour

Series_Information:

Series_Name: a quantitative record.

Issue_Identification: Proc.

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1997

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

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Source_Contribution: coral reef degradation study

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. L. Green

Originator: J. Burgett

Originator: M. Molina

Originator: D. Palawski

Originator: P. Gabrielson

Publication_Date: 1997

Title:

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_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1997

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and others (1997)

Source_Contribution: ship grounding and oil spill impact study

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: R. A. Kinzie, III

Originator: R. H. Snider

Publication_Date: 1978

Title: A simulation study of coral reef survey methods

Series_Information:

Series_Name:

Coral reefs: research methos. UNESCO, eds: Dr.R. Stoddart and R.E.

Issue_Identification: Johannes.

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: UNESCO

Originator: Dr.R. Stoddart, ed.

Originator: R.E. Johannes, ed.

Publication_Date: 1978

Title: Coral Reefs: Research Methods

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

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Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1978

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Kinzie (1978)

Source_Contribution: coral reef survey study methods

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: E. Pielou

Publication_Date: 1966

Title:

The measurement of diversity in different types of biological collections

Series_Information:

Series_Name: J. Theor. Biol.

Issue_Identification: 13:131-144

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

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Time_Period_Information:

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Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

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Source_Contribution: diversity of measurement in biological collections

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: A. L. Green

Publication_Date: 2002

Title: 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_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 report

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: S. Siegel

Publication_Date: 1956

Title: Nonparametric Statistics for the BehavioralSciences

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: New York

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1956

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Siegel, 1956

Source_Contribution: statistics text

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

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.

Process_Date: Unknown

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Dr. Alison Green

Contact_Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Contact_Position: Biologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 1379

City: Townsville

State_or_Province: Queensland

Postal_Code: 4810

Country: Australia

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (+61-7) 4729-8490

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: agreen@tnc.org

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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.

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Address: SSMC-3 Fourth Floor

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Metadata_Date: 20200329

Metadata_Review_Date: 20081014

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Contact_Person: Mr. Patrick C. Caldwell

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CoRIS_Children: None

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CoRIS_Ending_Date: 20021231

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https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/nodc_0001973.html

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