"Wayne Andrew assisted Lance Sulong of Yap CAP and Mr. Thomas Gorong with NIMPAL Marine Conservation Program and Berna Gorong with The Nature Conservancy to train 13 community facilitators from 2 communities on the main island of Yap (Gachpar and West Fan...
Chuuk State, FSM Enforcement Workshop October 29- November 02, 2017
"In Chuuk State of the Federated States of Micronesia PIMPAC, TNC and Rare Micronesia combined resources and efforts to increase enforcement capacity from October 29 to November 02, 2017. Mr. Wayne Andrew and Angel Jonathan as PIMPAC Regional Mentors coor...
Pohnpei State, FSM Fisheries Symposium October 23-27, 2017
"Pohnpei State has seen alarming decline in its coastal fisheries over the last 15 plus years as scientist studying the Coast Fisheries of Pohnpei State such as Dr. Kevin Rohdes and others will attest to. Even over the last 15 years communities and partne...
Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Identification of Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in U.S. Federal Waters of the Gulf of America
The FPEIS evaluated the potential adverse and beneficial impacts of identifying one or more Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in U.S. federal waters of the Gulf of America (Gulf) and the potential impacts associated with siting future commercial aquacu...
"PIMPAC Regional Mentors Mr. Wayne Andrew and Angel Jonathan conducted a management planning and climate change training for Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources staff in American Samoa from May 21-25, 2018. This successful training resulted in 13 ...
Characterization of the Tortugas Ecological Reserve (TER) : seafloor surveys and oceanographic processes
The implementation ofthe Tortugas Ecological Reserve (TER) in July 2001 has provided an excellent opportunity for NOAA to investigate the effect of human disturbance in the Tortugas. Consumptive sampling and physical impacts were eliminated within the bou...
Blue Water Visitor Monitoring Potential: A Literature Review and Alternative Proposal
This review presents a summary of existing visitor monitoring methods and relevant studies in land and marine-based areas, with a focus on the application to unique aquatic settings. Various opportunities and challenges exist with respect to the use of ea...
Rate and extent of decline in Corallium (pink and red coral) populations: existing data meet the requirements for a CITES Appendix II listing
"In June 2007, the US government proposed Corallium (pink and red corals) for listing on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The proposal was adopted and later overturned due to perceived difficulties in imp...
Do increased nutrients increase the vulnerability of reef corals to climate change? A field and experimental study in the Florida Keys using novel genetic tools
"This project tests the hypothesis that elevated nutrients cause corals to increase the densities of their algal symbionts, and that this change lowers their thermal tolerance. It uses a novel molecular assay to measure changes in the symbiont:host (S:H) ...
Yap Climate Change Toolkit Training Report