Understanding the spatial distribution, intensity, overlap and cumulative impact of human activities is essential for effective management and protection of ecosystem services generated by coral reefs. These maps of human impact and activities also direct...

The project involves the installment of accurate and reliable in situ temperature buoys at each of the Mission:Iconic Reef sites to allow monitoring of bleaching heat stress in near real time at a spatial scale that is needed to support restoration activi...

The three stand-alone analytical projects that comprise this overall project are detailed below: 1) Linking in situ temperature time series and benthic survey data to assess coral reef bleaching resilience in American Samoa: Results from ESD's FY19 vertic...