"Australias Great Barrier Reef (the GBR) is an iconic natural ecosystem, globally renowned for its majesty and grandeur. The GBR encompasses a vast array of unique and important marine and terrestrial habitats, from deepwater reefs to archetypal barrier r...
Factors contributing to the regional decline of Montastraea annularis (complex)
"Over the last 15 years the massive framework coral, Montastraea annularis (complex) has experienced a rapid decline in abundance, size and condition, and on many reefs in the western Atlantic these species are no longer the dominant corals. Surveys condu...
NOAA/NMFS/CRED Deep CTD profiles from 15 cruises near islands, atolls and shoals in the central tropical Pacific 1999-2012 (NODC Accession 0115299)
The Coral Reef Ecosystem Division of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, part of the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducted CTD profiling during 15 research cruises on the NOAA Ships ...
Small boat mission report M/V Huki Pono, south Oahu autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey, south shore of Oahu, Hawaii, 15 November - 21 November 2009
Cruise objectives were to: 1) collect data with the newly acquired and installed Imagenex 837 Delta T Multibeam system, 2) test the feasibility of conducting joint AUV and BotCam deployments in collaboration with Prof. Jeff Drazen's team from the Universi...
Current, wave, temperature, salinity, and turbidity data from moorings and bottom-mounted instruments in Pelekane and Kawaihae Bays, Hawaii 2010-11 to 2011-03 (NCEI Accession 0138581)
Spatial and temporal measurements of meteorologic, oceanographic, and sedimentological data were made during the 2010-2011 winter in Pelekane and Kawaihae Bays, on the Kohala coast of the northwest side of the Island of Hawaii. This data set consists of t...
Seafloor substrate (hard and soft bottom) maps at select islands/atolls in American Samoa, Mariana Archipelago, and the Pacific Remote Island Areas
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...
"Coral reefs in the Caribbean are facing a dramatic decline and are at a crossroads. Management decisions made today will affect the goods and services that reefs provide for decades to come. The government of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), in c...
2006 EM300 and EM3002D Multibeam Sonar Data from Cruise
Hi'ialakai HI-06-01 - Pacific Remote Island Areas
EM300 and EM3002D multibeam Data were collected
from 15 Jan - 6 Feb 2006 aboard NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai at
Johnston Island, Howland Island, and Baker Island in the
Central Pacific during cruise HI-06-01 These multibeam
data were collected using SAIC ISS-200...
Depth Contours for select locations across the U.S. Pacific Islands
These data are depth contours (isobaths) derived at 50 meters for most islands and reefs in the Mariana Archipelago, American Samoa, and the Pacific Remote Island Areas. Contours at 10- or 20-meter depths have also been derived for a subset of the same lo...
Australias Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 15
NOAA/NMFS/CRED Deep CTD profiles from 15 cruises near islands, atolls and shoals in the central tropical Pacific 1999-2012 (NODC Accession 0115299)
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...