Downloadable Data2018 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...
Downloadable Data2018 USGS Lidar DEM: Post Hurricane Maria - USVI
Metadata Thumbnail Product: These are Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data for U.S. Virgin Islands as part of the required deliverables for the PR USVI 2018 Lidar project. Class 2 (ground) lidar points in conjunction with the hydro breaklines were used to create a 0.5 meter h...
Downloadable Data2018 USGS Lidar DEM: Post Hurricane Maria - Puerto Rico
Metadata Thumbnail This data set was retrieved from the USGS rockyftp website and processed to NOAA/OCM's Digital Coast. Product: These are Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data for Puerto Rico and its surround islands as part of the required deliverables for the PR USVI 201...
ResourceUnexpected 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...
Downloadable Data2018-2020 HI Hawaii Island Lidar Hydro-Flattened Bare-Earth DEM
Metadata Thumbnail Product: 1-meter bare-earth raster digital elevation model (DEM) data tiles in GeoTIFF format. Geographic Extent: Approximately 4,028 square miles encompassing the Big Island of Hawaii. Dataset Description: The HI Hawaii Island Lidar NOAA 2017 B17 lidar p...
ResourceUsing 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 labor‐intensive, 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...
ResourceMesoscale Eddies Influence Coral Reef Environments in the Northwest Gulf of Mexico
Coral reefs globally are experiencing more frequent and severe warming events due to anthropogenic driven climate change. Subtropical reefs experience more seasonal variability than lower latitude reefs making them typically more resilient to climate chan...
Resource2013 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...
Downloadable DataCoral Ecosystem Connectivity from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys: Surface Drifting Buoy Position Data from 2012-08-08 to 2016-05-12 (NCEI Accession 0178107)
Metadata Thumbnail This dataset contains satellite-tracked drifting buoy data collected around the southwest Florida Shelf. CODE/DAVIS (Coastal Dynamics Experiment drifters described by Davis, 1985) and mini SVP (Surface Velocity Program drifters described by Lumpkin and Pa...
Downloadable DataAbundance and biomass of parrotfishes (Labridae, Scarinae) in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2015 to 2016 (NCEI Accession 0172377)
Metadata Thumbnail 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...