This environmental data summary report provides visualization and interpretation of all shipboard conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) data collected during eight expeditions aboard three vessels between October 2021 and 2023—five aboard R/V Point S...

This Paleoclimatology Study is archived at and available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The NOAA Paleoclimatology Study Type is Coral. The data include paramete...

The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef communities in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) using two benthic surveys: the Benthic Assessment (includes Line Point-Intercept) and the Coral Demographic method...

Carbonate budget assessments quantify rates of calcium carbonate production and erosion from habitat-altering marine taxa and can be used to evaluate the potential for reef growth and the persistence of coral reef frameworks. Tracking the key ecosystem pr...

Multivariate spatio-temporal models are widely applicable, but specifying their structure is complicated and may inhibit wider use. We introduce the R package tinyVAST from two viewpoints: the software user and the statistician.

Coral reefs can mitigate flood damages by providing protection to tropical coastal communities whose populations are dense, growing fast, and have predominantly lower-middle income. This study provides the first fine-scale, regionally modeled valuations o...

In response to declining coral populations worldwide, conservation groups are increasingly applying restoration strategies to bolster abundance and diversity, including sexual propagation of corals. Collection and fertilization of coral gametes as well as...

As anthropogenic impacts threaten natural habitats, effective monitoring strategies are crucial. Coral reefs, among the most vulnerable ecosystems, traditionally employ monitoring techniques that are labor-intensive and costly, prompting the exploration o...

Benthic quadrat surveys using 2-D images are one of the most common methods of quantifying the composition of coral reef communities, but they and other methods fail to assess changes in species composition as a 3-dimensional system, arguably one of the m...

Advances in 3D scanning and reconstruction techniques, such as structure-from-motion, have resulted in an abundance of increasingly-detailed 3D habitat models. However, many existing methods for calculating structural complexity of these models use 2.5D t...

Methodology for NCRMP reef visual census fish survey in the Atlantic.

Methodology for NCRMP coral demographics survey in the Atlantic.

Methodology for NCRMP benthic community assessment in the Atlantic.

In summer 2022, the Collaborative conducted the first longitudinal survey to identify pressing research needs and understand stakeholder attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs regarding reef fish management. Following analysis and interpretation of the surve...

The primary goal of the R/V Falkor (too) expedition along the Chilean margin was to investigate deep-sea methane seep systems and their interactions with tectonic, climatic, and oceanographic processes.

NOAA's National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) provides scientific information that supports ecosystem approaches to the management and conservation of coral reefs. Long-term, multidisciplinary NCRMP monitoring efforts include oceanographic data co...

This environmental data summary report provides visualization and interpretation of all shipboard CTD data collected during the SALT 2 expedition (PS-22-22) in May and June of 2022. The results of this assessment will be used to inform laboratory-based hu...

A comprehensive inventory of seafloor mapping, ground-truthing, and predictive habitat modeling data was compiled for a large part of the northern GOM for years 1980-2021 to meet the DWH restoration goals and support restoration activities. Thorough and r...

The objective of this report is to detail the data inventory scope and methods, such as data discovery, screening, acquisition, and extraction. The results of this inventory will be summarized with information specific to each HAE working group. An outlin...

These data are a set of raster maps of community-level predictions of deep-sea coral and sponge taxa distributions off the continental U.S. west coast, spanning depths from 50 to 1200 m. The raster files come in two versions: one where predicted distribut...

In a pilot project in the Caribbean (Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands), storm-produced fragments of Acropora palmata, Acropora cervicornis, and Porites porites were collected from donor reefs and transplanted to nearby degraded ...

The Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) began in 1996 (which became Marine Conservation Institute in 2011) with a new approach to encourage scientists who want to safeguard the oceans' web of life. Since then, MCBI has become one of the worlds mo...

The National Benthic Inventory (NBI) is a dynamic quantitative database on benthic species distributions obtained from studies conducted by NOAA and partnering institutions in estuarine and other coastal areas of the United States.

This page provides background and information on the CRCP's management priority setting process, as well as the management priorities established by each of the seven US state and territorial coral reef jurisdictions. This assessment came out of recommend...

CO-OPS provides the national infrastructure, science, and technical expertise to monitor, assess, and distribute tide, current, water level, and other coastal oceanographic products and services that support NOAA's mission of environmental stewardship and...