American Samoa has steep slope watersheds that render the terrain vulnerable to erosion from storm-water runoff, which reduces the water quality of nearshore coral reef ecosystems. Also, the growth in human population and coastal development have led to i...

This project proposes to build upon the relative resilience assessment performed for Rota and Tinian in 2014 (published 2015 with Jeff Maynard), and the work performed around Saipan in 2012 and 2018. The resilience indicators and the relative weighting of...