NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program: Florida

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Selected products for Florida generated through the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program are highlighted below. For a complete list of grant products for Florida please search through the CoRIS Geoportal

Evaluation of past coastal construction project monitoring in southeast Florida and recommendations to improve future monitoring

Monitoring Data Reports

• Florida Coral Reef Disturbance Monitoring Quick Look Reports
• Winter 2016
• Summer 2015
• Summer 2011
• A rapid response to cold water stress on corals. Monitoring coral health and immunity across habitat gradients in the Lower Florida Keys
• The Disturbance Response Monitoring within the Florida Reef Resilience Program: Data synthesis
• Determining vessel use patterns in the southeast Florida region
• Determining coral reef impacts associated with boat anchoring and user activity in southeast Florida
• Methodology for preparing cumulative impact sections of project reviews and assessments in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Martin counties, Florida
• Evaluation of past coastal construction project monitoring in southeast Florida and recommendations to improve future monitoring
• Targeted supplemental environmental assessment (TSEA) for the Threatened Coral Recovery Project

Biophysical Science Reports

• Integrating Visual Ecological Surveys, Passive Acoustics and Habitat Photogrammetry to Characterize Reef Fish Assemblages, Spawning Activity & Resilience Among Management Zones in the FKNMS Post-Hurricane Irma
• Assessment and Restoration of the Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus on the Florida Reef Tract
• Coral bleaching, coral diseases, and protected areas in the Florida Keys
• Severe 2010 cold-water event caused unprecedented mortality to corals of the Florida reef tract and reversed previous survivorship patterns
• Biomarker study to identify and trace coral reef contaminants
• Benthic habitat mapping of Miami-Dade County: Supervised classification of single-beam hydroacoustic data
• Development of GIS maps for southeast Florida coral reefs:
  • Palm Beach County
  • Broward County
• A study to evaluate reef recovery following injury and mitigation structures offshore southeast Florida:
  • Phase I Report
  • Phase II Report
• Seasonal Variability in Coral Immunity in the Florida Keys, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico

Social and Socio-economic Science Reports

• The southeast Florida marine debris reporting and removal program
• A literature review of sources and effects of non-extractive stressors to coral reef ecosystems

Reef Protection Campaign for SCUBA Divers.

Education & Outreach

• Our Florida Reefs Lessons Learned Workshop
• Assessing the environmental impacts of beach nourishment: Universal lessons about the need for rigorous design and effective process to assess projects of all kinds
• Connecting the land, the sea and the people of southeast Florida
• A quick guide to southeast Florida's coral reefs
• Reef protection campaign for scuba divers: Tabletop display
• Common southeast Florida corals and primary regulations

Management Activities

• Performance Evaluation of Marine Zoning in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
• Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Construction, Dredge and Fill and Other Activities Adjacent to Coral Reefs. Manual
• Management options to prevent anchoring, grounding, and accidental impacts to coral reef and hardbottom resources in southeast Florida.
  • Phase I report
  • Phase II report
  • Phase III report
  • Phase IV report
• Guidelines and management practices for artificial reef siting, use, construction, and anchoring in southeast Florida
• Management considerations for the southeast Florida coral reef ecosystem
• Development of management alternatives for the southeast Florida region according to stakeholder working panels
• Fisheries resource status and management alternatives for the southeast Florida region
• Evaluation of the potential for a marine zoning area for southeast Florida
• Local Action Strategy for Global Reef Conservation
  • Highlights of a 10-year Partnership between The Nature Conservancy, the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, and the U.S. Coral Reef Jurisdictions

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