Climate change resilience tools for coral reef managers – Connectivity
Climate change threatens even the best-protected and most-remote reefs. Reef recovery following catastrophic disturbance usually requires disturbed sites be re-seeded from upstream reefs. Recent research (McClanahan et al., 2012) assessed connectivity as ...
Hawai'i coral bleaching assessment and analysis
In collaboration with the Hawai'i Coral Bleaching Collaborative, our team in NOAA’s Ecosystem Sciences Division is joining a multi-institution effort to document the extent and severity of coral bleaching in the main Hawaiian Islands. Our goal is to lay t...
Mapping and EcoSpatial Information Products to Support Coral Reef Ecosystem Management in the Pacific Islands Region
This project will continue activities undertaken by the EcoSpatial Information Team (ESIT) at the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD). ESIT performs an essential role, providing crosscutting data and analytical services—including the ability to collect and ...