The Office of Science & Technology guards the integrity of NOAA Fisheries scientific activity and strives to maintain and improve its quality and creditability. It is the primary interface between NOAA Fisheries scientific activity and NOAA, other age...
NOAA Fisheries' Office of Protected Resources is responsible for leadership on endangered and threatened species and marine mammals in coral reef ecosystems. These responsibilities include the evaluation of candidate coral reef species for the Endangered ...
Office of Sustainable Fisheries is responsible for coordination and oversight of Fishery Management Plans. This includes evaluating and approving Fishery Management Plans related to coral reef ecosystems and fisheries (e.g., Lobsters, conch, etc); and eva...
Pacific Marine National Monument (PMNM) Big Earth Data Initiative(BEDI) Web Mapping Project
"The objective of the Pacific Marine National Monuments(PMNM) Big Earth Data Initiative(BEDI) web mapping project is to provide both data-set and enterprise wide improvements by building upon the work focused on increasing access to data by the Pacific Is...
Pacific Marine National Monument (PMNM) Big Earth Data Initiative(BEDI) Web Mapping Project
"The Mariana Trench Marine National Monument interactive map interface allows users to visualize and download scientific data collected by the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. This project will serve as a test case to effectively integrate coral ...
NOAA lists 20 new corals as threatened under the Endangered Species Act
"In total, 22 species of coral are now protected under the Endangered Species Act, including the two corals (elkhorn and staghorn) listed as threatened in 2006. Fifteen of the newly listed species occur in the Indo-Pacific and five in the Caribbean (see t...
"The missions of SE 14-05 were to: 1) Conduct deepwater coral reef fish surveys using 4 BRUVS from the PIFSC SE-6 SafeBoat. 2) Conduct deep-slope bottomfish handline bio-sampling operations from the OMAO SE-4 Northwind and the OES to obtain scientific spe...
Unpaved Road Standard for Caribbean and Pacific Islands
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first guidance manual aimed at improving the longevity of unpaved road surfaces in Pacific and Caribbean island jurisdictions. On small, steep islands, the unpaved road network can be one of the biggest sources o...
Office of Science and Technology (OST)