ResourceEcological Impacts of the 2015/16 El Nino in the Central Equatorial Pacific
"This sixth edition of explaining extreme events of the previous year (2016) from a climate perspective is the first of these reports to find that some extreme events were not possible in a preindustrial climate. The events were the 2016 record global hea...
ResourceComparison of Reef Fish Survey Data Gathered by Open and Closed Circuit SCUBA Divers Reveals Differences in Areas With Higher Fishing Pressure
"Visual survey by divers using open-circuit (OC) SCUBA is the most widely used approach to survey coral reef fishes. Therefore, it is important to quantify sources of bias in OC surveys, such as the possibility that avoidance of OC divers by fishes can le...
ResourcePacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Fish monitoring brief: Swains, Tutuila, Ofu and Olosega, Tau Islands, and Rose Atoll, 2018
"The NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center conducts the long-term Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) to track the status and trends of coral reef ecosystems of the U.S. Pacific Islands. This summary brief provides an ove...
ResourcePacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program : Fish Monitoring Brief : Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef 2018
"The NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center conducts the long-term Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) to track the status and trends of coral reef ecosystems of the U.S. Pacific Islands. This summary brief provides an ove...
ResourcePacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Fish monitoring brief: Howland, Baker, and Swains Islands, 2018
"The NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center conducts the long-term Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) to track the status and trends of coral reef ecosystems of the U.S. Pacific Islands. This summary brief provides an ove...
ResourceSkeletal ecosystems of bleaching reveal different thermal thresholds of Pacific coral reef assemblages
"Ocean warming is negatively impacting coral reef ecosystems and considerable effort is currently invested in projecting coral reef futures under 21st century climate change. A limiting factor in these projections is lack of quantitative data on the therm...
ResourcePIFSC Cruise Report HA-18-01 (Cruise HA-18-01)
Goals: "1. Conduct ecosystem monitoring of the species composition, abundance, percent cover, size distribution, and general health of the fishes, corals, other invertebrates, and algae of the shallow water (<30 m) coral reef ecosystems 2. Deploy, retr...
ResourcePacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program Ocean and Climate Change Monitoring Summary the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument 2018
The Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center monitors physical and chemical oceanographic conditions to investigate the long-term impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on coral reef ecosystems of the U....
ResourceCoral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Report for the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument 2000 - 2017: Chapter 7 Howland Island
The work presented within the Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Report for the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument 2000—2017 is a direct result of nearly 20 years of research in the U.S. Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM), ...
ResourceCoral reef ecosystems of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument : a 2000-2016 overview
This booklet provides an overview of key findings about spatial patterns and temporal trends of the coral reef ecosystems observed during NOAA's Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program research surveys conducted in the U.S. Pacific Remote Islands M...