Assessing coral reef resilience along the South Kohala Coast of Hawaii
CRCP, West Hawaii Habitat Focus Area, Sentinel Site Program, and Resilient Lands and Water’s Initiative have an overlapping Focus Area on the northwest side of the Island of Hawaii that includes the South Kohala coastline. The West Hawaii Habitat Focus Ar...
Develop and test innovative solutions for assessing reef communities and benthic processes using Structure from Motion.
The primary goal of this project is to assess how well photogrammetry (also known as Structure-from-Motion) can be used to improve our understanding of coral reef demographics and vital rates from colony to habitat-scale. This project builds out the innov...
Development of stressor threshold values for protection of Pacific coral reef species
Watershed managers in Hawaii have identified the need for data that can quickly lead to management actions/results "on the ground." One of the necessary pieces of information to aid coastal managers in key decision making are stressor thresholds, i.e. amb...
Observing and Documenting Predicted 2015/2016 Mass Coral Bleaching Events in Hawaii
Unprecedented Bleaching Threat to the Coral Populations in Hawaii: In September of 2014, researchers documented the worst mass coral bleaching event ever recorded in the main Hawaiian Islands, only the second on record. This year, NOAA's Coral Reef Watch ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Analysis for US Pacific Reefs - Integrating Exposure, Resilience, and Social Adaptive Capacity
Overarching Goal: Building on ongoing efforts in Hawaii, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, and American Samoa to document the potential for coral reef ecosystems to resist or recover from anthropogenic stress, we will synthesi...
Assessing coral reef resilience along the South Kohala Coast of Hawaii