Coastal activities in American Samoa in 2012 for use in coastal management
The American Samoa Coastal use Participatory Mapping Project was developed through a partnership between the American Samoa Government's Department of Commerce Coastal Management Program (ASCMP), Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR), NOAA's ...
Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the American Samoa Archipelago
This American Samoa Archipelago Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP) was developed by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and represents the first step in an incremental and collaborative approach to implement ecosystem approaches to fishery m...
Benthic data for corals, macroalgae, invertebrates, and non-living bottom types from Fagatele Bay, Pago Pago, and Fagasa, American Samoa, 2004-2008. (NODC Accession 0066319)
This data set was derived from surveys in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Pago Pago (Rainmaker and Aua), and Fagasa (Sita Bay and Cape Larsen) conducted in 2004 and 2007-2008. Parameters include coral, algal, or invertebrate species, coral colony...
Benthic data for corals, macroalgae, invertebrates, and non-living bottom types from 12 sites in American Samoa, 2005-2009. (NODC Accession 0068364)
Benthic transects were repeated at 12 sites around Tutuila at various depths on the reef slopes and flats. Benthic coverage categories include coral species, invertebrates, and non-living substrate type. Annual surveys took place during 2005-2009. The ...
Summer 2004 Coral Bleaching Event on Tutuila, American Samoa (NODC Accession 0001955)
American Samoa's coral reefs have been impacted by a variety of major events, including periodic severe hurricanes, the most recent of which was Hurricane Heta, which was closest on Jan 6, 2004. Other events have included a Crown-of-Thorns seastar outbrea...
Report of 2005 American Samoa Coral Reef Monitoring Program (ASCRMP), expanded edition
The primary intent of the ASCRMP is to collect data on a yearly basis by on-island staff in order to detect change and trends in the measured parameters over a period of years. The ASCRM was not designed primarily to compare sites to each other based on g...
This document identifies and develops climate change adaptation strategies specific to American Samoa and its vulnerabilities to climate change. The Territorial Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Group, mandated via Executive Order-002 by Governor Togiola...
Action Plan for Coral Reef Restoration in American Samoa
"Over the past 50 years, American Samoa has experienced a number of acute disturbance events. This includes ship groundings, cyclones, storms, crown of thorn starfish outbreaks, and algal competition and overgrowth. There have also been a numerous coral b...
NCCOS Assessment: Water Quality Data to Assess Eutrophication Effects on Coral Ecosystem Health in Vatia Bay, American Samoa from 2015-05-13 to 2018-08-28 (NCEI Accession 0208020)
This dataset represents three years of water quality data collected in Vatia Bay, American Samoa. A standard suite of nutrient parameters (nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, urea, total nitrogen, orthophosphate, total phosphorus and silica), as well as tracers o...
Results of the Territorial Monitoring Program of American Samoa for 2010, benthic section
Because the tsunami in Sept 29, 2009 not only destroyed the boat ramps at Pago Pago Harbor and Fagasa, and damaged almost all DMWR vehicles beyond repair by immersion in saltwater, plus all three DMWR boats were inoperable almost the entire year, only a s...
Coastal activities in American Samoa in 2012 for use in coastal management
Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the American Samoa Archipelago