This report provides a record of the Marianas Biosampling Summit processes and discussions leveraged to meet those goals. The key takeaways and shared priorities from the summit were to: (1) conduct coordinated outreach to support collaboration and unifie...

This Final Project Report (FPR) summarizes the project's objectives, activities carried out during the project, and results including present status. The FPR includes conclusions and lessons learned, a table summarizing outputs, and the project timeline, ...

This Hawaii 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 managemen...

This Mariana 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 manageme...

Seafloor substrate (i.e., hard vs. soft bottom) from 0 to up to 50 m depths around islands/atolls in American Samoa, Mariana Archipelago, and Pacific Remote Island Areas produced by the NOAA Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD). The islands/atolls include Tu...

A list of Hawaiian fish species was created from contemporary and historical documents dating back to 1758. For each species, the name of the person who described and first named the species (according to The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature...

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...

Coral belt transect surveys, focused at quantifying the relative abundance, density, and size-class distribution of the anthozoan and hydrozoan corals, as well as the condition and health state of the coral populations were conducted around the islands of...

"Large coral reef fish were surveyed throughout the Marianas Archipelago in August- September 2003 to assess their status as fishery targets. Three underwater visual survey methods were used: belt transect (for fish over 20 cm long), stationary point coun...

The analysis-ready data described here result from performing hierarchical clustering of individual coral bleaching surveys conducted across the Hawaiian Archipelago in 2014, 2015, and 2019. In order to resolve issues of spatial autocorrelation, the surve...