The marine biota of Johnston atoll was surveyed for nonindigenous species in June, 2000 with observations and collections made by investigators using Scuba. Eleven stations were surveyed, including sites at the Johnston Island pier, the north and south la...

The purpose of this report and the biophysical design principles presented is to inform plans and opportunities to establish, or improve upon, marine protected area networks so that they more directly address the issues of food security, livelihoods and l...

The NOAA ship OREGON II departed Pascagoula, MS on April 16, 1991 to conduct the spring SEAMAP ichthyoplankton cruise OT 91-03 (194). The survey was conducted to determine distribution and abundance of the various developmental stages of bluefin tuna and ...

"Many physiological responses in present-day coral reefs to climate change are interpreted as consistent with the imminent disappearance of modern reefs globally because of annual mass bleaching events, carbonate dissolution, and insufficient time for sub...

"Our ability to understand natural constraints on coral reef benthic communities requires quantitative assessment of the relative strengths of abiotic and biotic processes across large spatial scales. Here, we combine underwater images, visual censuses an...

Biodiversity conservation , resource management planning and particularly its implementation, while often constructed on comparatively sound ecological data and information, largely fail to sufficiently take into account the socio-economic processes and s...

The need for adequate economic data to understand and analyze U.S. domestic fisheries has been emphasized in all aspects of fishery research and management literature. It is the responsibility of the Southeast Fisheries Center to provide economic data and...

"Data required from fisheries monitoring programmes substantially expand as management authorities transition to implement elements of ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM). EBFM extends conventional approaches of managing single fishery effects on ...

"Reef-building corals are extremely sensitive to changing temperature regimes, such that sustained increases in ocean temperatures are generally expected to have negative effects on coral growth and survivorship. At high latitude reefs, however, projected...

Deep neural networks provide remarkable performances on supervised learning tasks with extensive collections of labeled data. However, creating such large well-annotated data sets requires a considerable amount of resources, time and effort, especially fo...