"The world's tropical coasts are home to over two billion people, many of whom live in poverty and depend on coastal resources such as coral reef fish for their livelihood, sustenance, and cultural traditions. The Global Socioeconomic Monitoring Initiativ...

"The Marine Integrated Decision Analysis System (MIDAS) is a software tool that was developed by the Science to Action partnership with three main objectives in mind: (1) to assist the Marine Managed Areas (MMAs) users and managers in understanding the cr...

This Spanish-language website provides quick links regarding the Luis Pena Channel Natural Reserve in Culebra, the La Cordillera Reefs Natural Reserve in Fajardo, the World Shoreline Project, and related educational resources for the management and protec...

"This tool allows basic editing and validation of coastal habitat data. This is a beta version with limited functionality, being tested with the Global Distribution of Coral Reefs (2010) (original version downloadable from our http://data.unep-wcmc.org/) ...

"Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe) is Windows-based software that provides a tool for the determination of benthic cover using transect photographs. A specified number of spatially random points are distributed on a transect image and the fea...

"This web page brings together coastal ocean data and forecasts from a variety of sources including satellites, ocean instruments and numerical models to give the user an integrated view of past, present and forecasted ocean conditions in the US Caribbean...

"In January 2009 a moored autonomous pCO2 buoy (MapCO2) was deployed through a joint effort between the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Pro...

"Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), a major "greenhouse" gas and driven primarily through increased fossil fuel emissions and changes in land use, produce changes in ocean chemistry that may affect marine life globally. As forests, the oce...

Charts showing trends in atmospheric and seawater CO2 at La Parguera, Puerto Rico (2009-present) and at the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (2005-present) are presented.

"Trends in seawater aragonite saturation state at the forereef and seagrass areas at Enrique shelf reef (2009-present) are presented."