Defining spawning dynamics to manage and conserve reef fish populations
Key elements of Puerto Rico’s priority goals include: Protect coral reef ecosystems from large- and small-scale fisheries impacts and Enhance management programs to reduce fishing impacts to coral reef ecosystems. CRCP’s Fishing Impacts Goal 2, Objective ...
Supporting Sustainable Coral Reef Fisheries Management Plans in Hawai’i
The Hawai?i Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) launched its Holomua Marine Initiative as a way to work with communities to effectively manage nearshore marine resources around six main Hawaiian Islands so that local resources are avai...
Evaluating an NCRMP Redesign: Zone Based Strategy Power Analysis
To increase the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program's (NCRMP's) power to identify coral reef locations, coral populations, and ecological processes that show differential resilience, we are examining alternative statistical designs for the survey. Spec...
Statistical models to better link projection models of oceanic carbonate systems to reef-scale OA impacts
This project will entail a Pacific basin-wide carbonate chemistry analysis, presenting a synthesis of observed spatial and temporal patterns in the reef carbonate system across the Pacific. A post-doc (Heidi Hirsch) is building a statistical model to desc...
NOAA has emerged as the lead for Mission: Iconic Reefs, as requested by the MIR partners. Thus, we must provide foundational elements of the program to allow for the success of the implementing partners in their areas of expertise (e.g., coral and grazer ...
NCRMP Data, Reports, and Information Products for Management
In response to the 2016 CRCP Science Review and the PIFSC External Review of Ecosystem Science, the PIFSC-Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) will continue efforts initiated in FY17 to improve the timeliness of analytical products and alignment with nationa...
Near-real-time in situ sea temperature monitoring to improve Coral Reef Watch predictions and support Mission: Iconic Reefs
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...
Capacity building and sampling in the CNMI for microbial source tracking and metagenomics sequencing
The Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality (BECQ) for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) has identified and expressed a critical need for improved capacity in the detection and tracking of Land-Based Sources of Pollution (LBSP) 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...
Quantifying extinction risk for ESA-listed coral species in the Wider Caribbean
THE ISSUE: Corals continue to undergo precipitous declines in population size. Seven Caribbean coral species have been listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), NOAA is required to monitor population status and trends throughout these species' range,...
Defining spawning dynamics to manage and conserve reef fish populations