Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Dr. Donald C. Potts, UCSC Originator: Ms. Daria Siciliano, UCSC Originator: Dr. James Maragos, US Fish and Wildlife Service Originator: Dr. David Gulko, Hawaii State Div. of Lands and Nat. Resources. Publication_Date: Unpublished material Title: Groundtruthing Notes and Miscellaneous Biological Datasets from Coral Ecosystems Surveys from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Rapid Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program of 2000-2002 (NODC Accession 0001448) Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: database Online_Linkage: https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/1448 Description: Abstract: The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (NOWRAMP) began in 2000 with the mission to rapidly evaluate and map the shallow water reef habitats in the NWHI. Utilizing two research vessels Rapture and R/V Townsend Cromwell, researchers spent 30 days at sea visiting each of the ten major islands, atolls and reefs in the remote region of the Hawaiian archipelago. This dataset is a small subset from these cruises. It includes spreadsheet data files on habitats, coral cores, coral species, substrate types, and substrate type percent bottom cover. A descriptive document is also included which was the basis for groundtruthing images from remote sensing. These descriptions give a wide range of information on coral and reef fish species abundance and distribution. Purpose: Map and evaluate the shallow water reef habitats of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Supplemental_Information: NOAA Supplemental: :Entry_ID: Unknown: Sensor_Name: SCUBA; Project_Campaign: Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative; Project_Campaign: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Rapid Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program; Originating_Center: UCSC; Storage_Medium: MS Excel, MS Word; Online_size: 949 Kbytes Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0001448 Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20000920 Ending_Date: 20021007 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None Planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -178.37817 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -161.91921 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 28.45942 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 23.0567 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NCEI Geoportal Filter Theme_Keyword: CoRIS_Metadata Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: coral Theme_Keyword: coral reef ecosystem Theme_Keyword: coastal Theme_Keyword: benthic habitats Theme_Keyword: coral cores Theme_Keyword: coral species Theme_Keyword: substrate types Theme_Keyword: percent bottom cover Theme_Keyword: groundtruthing Theme_Keyword: reef fish species Theme_Keyword: reef fish abundance Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: Geographic Information > Habitats Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Coastal Habitat Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Coral Cover Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Rapid Assessment Studies Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Reef Fish Census Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish > Fish Census 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 > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > French Frigate Shoals (24N166W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > French Frigate Shoals (24N166W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Maro Reef (25N170W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Maro Reef (25N170W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Gardner Pinnacles (25N168W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Gardner Pinnacles (25N168W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Midway Atoll (28N177W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Midway Atoll (28N177W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Kure Atoll (28N178W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Kure Atoll (28N178W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Laysan Island (25N171W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Laysan Island (25N171W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Necker Island (23N164W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Necker Island (23N164W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Raita Bank (25N168W0002) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Raita Bank (25N168W0002) Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: North Pacific Place_Keyword: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Place_Keyword: French Frigate Shoals Place_Keyword: Maro Reef Place_Keyword: Lisianski and Neva Shoals Place_Keyword: Midway Atoll Place_Keyword: Kure Atoll Place_Keyword: Laysan Island Place_Keyword: Necker Island Place_Keyword: Nihoa Island Place_Keyword: Pearl and Hermes Atoll Place_Keyword: Raita Bank Place_Keyword: Gardner Pinnacles Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region Place_Keyword: NWHI 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: Donald Potts Contact_Organization: University of California Santa Cruz Contact_Position: Researcher Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Address: & Institute of Marine Sciences Address: A316 Earth & Marine Sciences Building City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95064 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 459-4417 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: potts@biology.ucsc.edu Data_Set_Credit: University of California Santa Cruz;Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative;US Fish and Wildlife Service;Hawaii State Div. of Lands and Nat. Resources;NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service;NOAA National Ocean Service;Bishop Museum;University of Hawaii;Oceanic Institute Native_Data_Set_Environment: MS Excel, MS Word Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: see Lineage - Process Step Completeness_Report: none Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: J. Maragos Originator: D. Gulko Publication_Date: 2002 Title: Coral Reef Ecosystems of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Interim Results Emphasizing the 2000 Surveys Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Honolulu, Hawaii Publisher: Hawaii Division of Lands and Natural Resources, US Fish and Wildlife Service 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: Maragos and Gulko, 2002 Source_Contribution: coral reef survey Process_Step: Process_Description: Rapid Ecological Assessments (REA)To maximize the comparability and coverage of field surveys, all REA teams used the same survey procedures, and were deployed over as wide an area as possible. Towboard Team - Towboards allowed trained divers to census and classify habitats over extensive reef areas quickly (about 3 km per dive). These results were then used to select the best areas for intensive benthic and fish assessments by the REA Teams. These surveys are also being used to ground truth the remote sensing imagery. Each towboard team consisted of two divers with separate boards towed behind the same boat. A ditital video camcorder was affixed to each board with one pointing down (90 degrees) and the other point at at a forward angle (20 degrees) to capture a broader spectrum of habitat and substrate information. Divers maintained the cameras 1 meter above the bottom. Each towboard was equipped with paired lasers to project a scale onto the video. Water temperature, depth, and GPS data were recorded continuously during each towboard survey.Fish Team - Each fish team consisted of three divers with two swimming three 25 m long transects per dive. During the deployment leg of the transect, both divers recorded size class-specific counts of all fishes greater than 20 cm within 2 m on each side of the line, while small and cryptic fish (i.e., less than 20 cm) were enumerated by size class during the "swim back" leg. The third diver of the fish team completed four stationary point counts, each within a cylinder having a radius of 10 m, to estimate size and abundance of larger (greater than 25 cm in length) and more mobile fish. This diver also used video to capture "natural" fish assemblages and size information using the attached lasers. Upon completion of the transect surveys, teams swam randomly over the reef to record rare species. Benthic Team - The benthic team surveyed the first two of the fish team's transects to estimate corals, other invertebrates, and algae, but first waited at least 10 minutes to avoid disturbing the fish surveys. The coral expert on each benthic (bottom habitat) team would initially videotape the substrate along each of the first two transects at a height of about 1 m above the center of each line. Later, the algal, invertebrate, and coral experts would swim the lines to record species and collect specimens, additional video, and photographs. All three would then conduct rangom swims near the end of each dive to record other rare species. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Maragos, J. and D. Gulko (eds), 2002. Coral Reef Ecosystems of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Interim Results Emphasizing the 2000 Surveys. Hawaii Division of Lands and Natural Resources, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Honolulu, Hawaii. 46 pp. Process_Date: Unknown Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Daria Siciliano Contact_Organization: University of California Santa Cruz Contact_Position: graduate student Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Address: & Institute of Marine Sciences Address: A316 Earth & Marine Sciences Building City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95064 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (808)847-8256 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: daria@biology.ucsc.edu Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: 1) Directory ../../data Filename format comment2001Cores_record.xls MS Excel Date, Location, Specimen, Depth, GPS, Notes2001Cores_record.csv ascii redundant copy 2002coresancolonies_record.xls MS Excel Site, Position, Habitat, Depth, Species2002coresancolonies_record.csv ascii redundant copyKure2000_01surveys.xls MS Excel Site, Position, Geography, Depth, Substrate Cover, Species, NotesKure2000_01surveys.csv ascii redundant copyNWHIgroundtruthing2.doc MS Word Site by Site Survey DescriptionNWHIgroundtruthing2.txt ascii redundant copy 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 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-713-3277 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-713-3302 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: services@nodc.noaa.gov Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. 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