ResourceRediscover your island St. Croix East End Marine Park!
This is a two-page information sheet about the St. Croix East End Marine Park.
ResourceThe history of the St. Croix East End Marine Park. Creating momentum, a legacy in the making
This is a poster produced by NOAA CRCP Award Number NA05NMF4631055.
ResourceThe St. Croix East End Marine Park: The USVI's first territorial marine park
This is a poster on the The St. Croix East End Marine Park in the United States Virgin Islands.
ResourceSt. Croix East End Marine Park Summary of Support (2014-2015)
"The St. Croix East End Marine Park (STXEEMP) was established to protect territorially significant marine resources, and promote sustainability of marine ecosystems, including coral reefs, sea grass beds, wildlife habitats and other resources, and to cons...
ResourceSt. Croix East End Marine Park interpretive guide
This is a guide for the St. Croix East End Marine Park. The St. Croix East End Marine Park (STXEEMP or Park) was established in January 2003 with financial and logistical support from the Department of the Interior and National Oceanographic and Atmospher...
ResourceBuilding capacity for St. Croix East End Marine Park
Final project report for NOAA Award No. NA05NMF4631055, "Building Capacity for St. Croix East End Marine Park". The GCRC grant entitled "Building Capacity for St. Croix East End Marine Park" was for the purpose of increasing local capacity to manage the S...
ResourceMarker Buoy Maintenance Plan for St. Croix East End Marine Park
Metadata Thumbnail "The St. Croix East End Marine Park (STXEEMP), established in 2003 through Act No. 6572, encompasses a wide variety of marine habitats and covers approximately 60 nautical miles. The STXEEMP is a multi-use park including areas designated for recreational ...
ResourceReducing LBSP threats in USVI's St Croix East End Marine Park
The St. Croix East End Marine Park (STXEEMP) is over 60 square miles and contains a variety of important habitat types including linear and patch coral reefs, seagrass beds, and mangroves. St. Croix reefs are dominated by elkhorn and staghorn corals, and ...
ResourceSt. Croix East End Marine Park : conceptual plan for interpretation
The mission of the STXEEMP is to manage these precious natural and cultural resources within the boundaries of the park for current and future generations of both residents and visitors. Following an initial charrette, Wilderness Graphics offers the follo...
ResourceSt. Croix East End Marine Park management plan
A Management Plan outlines the purposes and manner in which an area is to be used. It sets the management objectives, policies, and strategies to achieve the stated objectives. It also addresses the administrative structure, resource use, zoning, boundari...
ResourceEvaluating the efficacy of two MPAs in the USVI: St. Thomas East End Reserves and St. Croix East End Marine Park
PROJECT OBJECTIVESThe objectives of this MPA efficacy project are to: (1) evaluate sample size requirements for coral target reef fish species to obtain a desired level of survey precision (e.g. 15% CV) to compare MPAs and open areas; (2) develop an optim...
ResourceLand-sea characterization of the St. Croix east end marine park, U.S. Virgin Islands
ResourceSt. Croix East End Marine Park : interpretive guide / [Kim Ishida, Jeanne Brown and Melanie Feltmat].
Downloadable DataBiological and physical geospatial data from St. Croix East End Marine Park, U.S. Virgin Islands from 6 Feb 2001 to 18 May 2012 (NODC Accession 0118500)
Metadata Thumbnail The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, Biogeography Branch (CCMA-BB) worked with partners to assess and characterize the marine environment in and around the St. Croix East End Marine Park. Th...
ResourceBuilding capacity and increasing effectiveness for the USVI territorial marine protected areas
"In coordination with the local coral reef resource managers in the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (VIDPNR) Division of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), TNC (The Nature Conservancy) has supported the implementation of critical m...
ResourceUnited States Virgin Islands Local Action Strategy
"This locally driven initiative was designed to identify and implement priority actions to reduce key threats to coral reefs through partnerships and collaborative actions among federal, state, territorial, and non-governmental partners. The U.S. Virgin I...
ResourceSt. Croix east end watersheds existing conditions report
This report is the first product in a watershed planning effort for the East End of St. Croix sponsored by the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program and conducted by the Horsley Witten Group, Inc. (HW) in partnership with the USVI Department of Planning an...
ResourceSt. Croix East End Watersheds Restoration Strategy 2023-2028
"In 2022, NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) provided funding to evaluate implementation progress of the 2011 Watersheed Management Plant (WMP) and re-establish land-based sources of pollution (LBSP) management priorities over the next five years...
ResourceNOAA GCRF Program Grant, October 1, 2004-August 31, 2007
"The GCRC grant entitled "Building Capacity for St. Croix East End Marine Park" outlines several activities that were aimed at increasing local capacity to manage the East End Marine Park (STXEEMP) and assist in the implementation of priority projects as ...
ResourceSupport for Effective Management and Engagement of Stakeholders of USVI Marine Managed Areas
"Building resilience by eliminating or reducing anthropogenic threats is necessary for the recovery of US Virgin Island (USVI) reefs and the services that they provide, which are disappearing. However, in the Caribbean, natural recovery will be slow to oc...
ResourceSt. Croix East End watersheds management plan, U.S. Virgin Islands
The environmental resources within St. Croix's East End Marine Park (STXEEMP)-a 60 square mile marine area surrounding the East End of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI)-are arguably some of the greatest natural assets of the US Virgin Islands. A diversi...
ResourceGreen Cay Gut Headcuts Stabilization Project : final report
This report documents completion of the Green Cay Gut Headcut Stabilization construction project as part of HW's final project closeout requirements under the NOAA CRCP Order No. DG-133C-12-BA-0056/C-0013. The following objectives were successfully met by...
ResourceWe must work together to make a difference now
"All Islands Coral Reef Blog: A blog about coral reef-related people, places, and projects in the U.S. and Freely Associated States. Over the last several months, the jurisdictions and islands have faced extraordinary events that have impacted coral reefs...
Downloadable DataNCCOS Assessment: MPA Boundary Efficacy and Biotic Movements in Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve: Tagging and Tracking Fish with Acoustic Telemetry in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2017-04-18 to 2019-06-24 (NCEI Accession 0280248)
Metadata Thumbnail This dataset includes raw acoustic telemetry detection data for fish tagged with Vemco/Innovasea acoustic transmitters in Salt River Bay, St. Croix from 2017 through 2019, along with pertinent metadata. Detection data were obtained from an array of under...
Downloadable DataNCCOS Assessment: Biogeographic Surveys of Benthic and Fish Communities in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico from 2001-01-09 to 2012-11-02 (NCEI Accession 0206670)
Metadata Thumbnail This data compilation includes benthic and fish survey data collected in St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI); La Parguera, Guanica, Jobos Bay, and Vieques, Puerto Rico; and Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) in...