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...
"Coral disease was first recognized as a threat to Caribbean reefs in 1972 when Antonius (Antonius, 1973) reported the discovery of black band disease. Since that time the prevalence and incidence of coral disease has been reported in an ever-increasing f...
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 ...
"Community based reporting of coral bleaching and data integration with existing NOAA remote sensing and coral bleaching early warning products. There were four BleachWatch training presentations organized to promote the BleachWatch project and train new ...
"There were three BleachWatch training presentations organized to promote the BleachWatch project and train new volunteers throughout the Florida Keys as well as individual one on one training. Media provided advertisement of the program as needed to enco...
Office of Science and Technology (OST)