ResourceCoastal change in the Pacific Islands. Volume One, A guide to support community understanding of coastal erosion and flooding issues. Outreach : how coastlines work and what factors influenced coastal change / [Gombos, M., Ramsay, D., Webb, A., Marra, J., Atkinson, S., and Gorong, B., editors
This document is part of a two-volume guide that provides a foundation for communities to assess local coastal processes and the impacts humans are having on coastal areas, and identify appropriate actions required to build the resilience of coastlines an...
ResourceCoastal change in the Pacific Islands. Volume Two, A guide to support community decision-making on coastal erosion and flooding issues. Planning : choosing actions to reduce the impacts of coastal flooding and shoreline erosion / [Gombos, M., Ramsay, D., Webb, A., Marra, J., Atkinson, S., and Gorong, B., editors
This document is part of a two-volume guide that provides a foundation for communities to assess local coastal processes and the impacts humans are having on coastal areas, and identify appropriate actions required to build the resilience of coastlines an...
ResourceLionfish response management plan, U.S. Virgin Islands : update February 2014
This updated territorial Lionfish Response Management Plan addresses the potential ecological and economic threat posed by invasive lionfish with specific strategies for education and outreach, removal, research and monitoring, marketing, and communicatio...
ResourceThe gill and trammel net buyback and ban in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
This study examines the perceptions about the biological and socio-economic performance of the gill and trammel net buyback and ban in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The objective of the buyback was to assist fishermen transition to other gears while the...
ResourceMarine protected areas of the U.S. Virgin Islands : ecological performance report
The report provides: (1) an overview of the history of MPAs, types of MPAs and associated regulations, and a list of all MPAs in the USVI; (2) an ecological performance report for three intensively surveyed MPA units managed by NPS, including 20 biologica...
ResourceBenthic characterization of deep-water habitat in the newly expanded areas of Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries
A large area of the seafloor off northern California lies within the US National Marine Sanctuary System, but very little of the habitat has been explored and even less is characterized using visual survey techniques, especially deep-water habitats. Benth...