"The NOAA laboratory in Beaufort is a partnership among three entities: - NOAA Ocean Service, which owns the laboratory facility - North Carolina Estuarine Research Reserve - NOAA Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center Fisheries research at ...

"The Protected Resources Division develops, coordinates, and monitors: - Marine Mammals - Sea Turtles - Early Life History Dynamics - Reef Fish: Fisheries Assessment, Monitoring, and Ecology (FAME) Unit - Coral: Benthic Ecosystems Assessment Research (BEA...

SEFSC is responsible for monitoring and research support for coral reef ecosystems in Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. Caribbean. These responsibilities include habitat mapping and characterization, coral reef fish and fisheries monitoring, resear...

"In September 2019, we collected 63 colonies from reefs surrounding St. Thomas and St. John as a continuation of a multifaceted approach to understand the ecology and population dynamics of the threatened Acropora taxa. Starting in 2009, three long-term t...

"The distribution of Acropora spp. at three sites in the U.S. Virgin Islands (Thatch Cay, Lovango Cay, No Name Bay) are well documented based on previous tissue collection and long-term transect analysis. Rather than mapping by species alone, here we have...

"Genotypic richness, the total number of unique genotypes divided by the total number of samples, can be a useful metric for identifying population distributions particularly with an uneven sample size. Here, we use microsatellites developed by Baums et a...