2018 USGS/NRCS Lidar DEM: Southeast Florida
Product: These are Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data for Florida counties of Broward, Collier, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach, as part of the required deliverables for the Florida Southeast 2018 Lidar project. Class 2 (ground) lidar points in...
Unexpected high densities of the hybrid coral Acropora prolifera (Lamarck 1816) in Guadeloupe Island, Lesser Antilles
"Coral populations of Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis have dramatically declined in the Caribbean and have been consequently classified as critically endangered since 2008. Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis can form a viable F1 offspring previ...
Using machine learning to achieve simultaneous, georeferenced surveys of fish and benthic communities on shallow coral reefs
Surveying coastal systems to estimate distribution and abundance of fish and benthic organisms is laborāintensive, often resulting in spatially limited data that are difficult to scale up to an entire reef or island. We developed a method that leverages t...
2013 Benthic Biology and Ecology Cruise Log December 11th 16th
Resting on the seafloor almost a mile below the surface of Monterey Bay lies a large shipping container, just one of 24 such containers that were lost at sea off the cargo ship M/V Med Taipei during a storm in February 2004. The ship was transiting from S...
Abundance and biomass of parrotfishes (Labridae, Scarinae) in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2015 to 2016 (NCEI Accession 0172377)
We collected data on parrotfish abundance, biomass, size structure, and species composition at several sites on the N shore of St. Croix during July and August 2015 and 2016. Surveys were conducted using a method that allowed divers to rapidly survey larg...
Reef fish species, count, and abundance data collected during Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources fish and habitat utilization surveys in East Hawaii from 2022-12-15 to 2023-10-20 (NCEI Accession 0287383)
Dataset contains reef fish species, count, and abundance data from sites located throughout the Eastern coastline of Hawaii Island.
Fish data are derived from fish and habitat utilization surveys (FAHU) conducted by Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources d...