NCCOS Assessment: Underwater Video and Photographs for Ground Validation and Accuracy Assessment of Benthic Habitat Maps of Saipan Lagoon, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 2016-07-28 to 2016-08-09
Underwater video and photographs were acquired between 28 July 2016 and 9 August 2016 at nearly 600 sites throughout the lagoon to document the presence and percent-cover of benthic substrate and cover types. Two sets of independent data were collected, o...
NCCOS National Status and Trends Special Study: Assessing Land Based Sources of Pollution in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, from 2013-08-27 to 2013-08-30
This tabular dataset is the result of field sampling of coral tissues (Pocillopora damicornis) and subsequent laboratory chemical analysis for pollutant levels. The pollutants analyzed included trace elements (Al, Ar, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Pb, Mn, Hg, Ni, Se, A...
NCCOS Assessment: Benthic habitat maps of Saipan Lagoon, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (NCEI Accession 0162517)
Highly detailed maps of benthic habitats within the lagoon along the western shore of Saipan were created by NOAA NCCOS. This data collection includes the information used to create these detailed maps, including: 1) a high resolution satellite image, 2) ...
Characterization of reef fish populations and benthic habitats within St. Thomas East End Reserve (STEER), USVI
"The 2012 field mission in the STEER was in support of Year 2 for the project: Characterization of Land-Based Sources of Pollution and Effects in the St. Thomas East End Reserve (STEER). The overall goals of the field mission were to conduct a biological ...
Collection of Coral and Conch Tissues within the St. Thomas East End Reserves (STEER), USVI
"The 2012 field mission in the STEER was in support of Year 2 for the project: Characterization of Land-Based Sources of Pollution and Effects in the St. Thomas East End Reserve (STEER). The overall goals of the field mission were to conduct a biological ...
Octocoral Species Richness for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 1999-2009 (NODC Accession 0123059)
The dataset includes species richness of benthic branching and encrusting gorgonians collected from multiple habitat types across the south Florida shelf, inside and outside of the no-take management zones, and throughout the Florida Keys from south of Mi...
NCCOS mapping: seafloor mapping products for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 2004-01-01 to 2019-09-22 (NCEI Accession 0170215)
This dataset is an inventory of seafloor mapping data from hydrographic multibeam sonar surveys and georeferenced benthic photographs and video clips, all collected in and around the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). The multibeam data sets ...
NCCOS Assessment: Underwater Video for Ground Validation and Accuracy Assessment of Benthic Habitat Maps of the Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2010-03-20 to 2017-02-10
The presence and absence of the four substrate and four biological cover types were documented at 1,353 locations on the insular shelf south of St. Thomas and St. John. At each location, an underwater camera system was used to collect high definition (HD)...
NCCOS IKONOS Imagery for the Republic of Palau, 2003-2006
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Ocean Service (NOS) is tasked with the coral
mapping element of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force (CRTF) under the authority of Executive Order 13089. NOS is
responsible for coral reef mapp...
NCCOS Assessment: Southeastern U.S. Predictive Modeling of Deep-Sea Corals and Hardbottom Habitats, 2016-10-01 to 2021-09-30 (NCEI Accession 0282806)
This data collection contains geospatial data from models predicting the spatial distributions of deep-sea corals (DSCs) and hardbottom habitats offshore of the southeastern U.S. It includes a database (.csv text file) containing records of occurrence (pr...
NCCOS Assessment: Underwater Video and Photographs for Ground Validation and Accuracy Assessment of Benthic Habitat Maps of Saipan Lagoon, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 2016-07-28 to 2016-08-09
Characterization of reef fish populations and benthic habitats within St. Thomas East End Reserve (STEER), USVI