Ghost of bleaching future: Seasonal outlooks from NOAA's Operational Climate Forecast System
"Using models to inform the possible future of coral reefs can happen on many scales. At the seasonal timescale, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch (CRW) and National Centers for Environment Prediction (NCEP) rece...
Wireless architectures for coral reef environmental monitoring
"Over the last ten years several wireless architectures have been developed for transmitting meteorological and oceanographic data (in real-time or near real-time) from coral reef ecosystems in Florida, the Caribbean, Saipan, and Australia. These architec...
A framework for comparing coral bleaching thresholds
"Coral reefs are highly vulnerable to bleaching under elevated temperature. Since 2002, NOAA Coral Reef Watch has used a bleaching threshold based on global sea surface temperatures to provide operational bleaching warnings. Recent studies suggest that mo...
Factors contributing to the regional decline of Montastraea annularis (complex)
"Over the last 15 years the massive framework coral, Montastraea annularis (complex) has experienced a rapid decline in abundance, size and condition, and on many reefs in the western Atlantic these species are no longer the dominant corals. Surveys condu...
Loss of economic value from coral bleaching in S.E. Asia
"In 2010, a rise in sea water temperatures off Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia resulted in substantial coral bleaching. An ecological and economic survey was undertaken to determine the extent of this bleaching and also the economic implications, particu...
Factors affecting land-based sedimentation in coastal bays, US Virgin Islands
"In the US Virgin Islands, land-based sources of pollution including sediment and storm-water runoff are one of the primary causes of coral reef degradation. Watershed development, especially the building of dirt roads, has increased the land-based (terri...
Identifying oceanic thermal anomalies in the Coral Triangle region
"Mass coral bleaching has historically been linked to episodes of thermal stress. While locationspecific time-series data have been examined, the oceanic thermal anomalies that underlie broad-scale thermal stress events are apparently unstudied quantitati...
Developments in understanding relationships between environmental conditions and coral disease
"Coral disease events are emerging as a significant threat to coral reefs in a changing climate. Over the past few years, several modelling studies have derived empirical relationships linking white syndrome (WS) disease outbreaks on Pacific coral reefs w...
NOAA Coral Reef Watch's Decision Support System for coral reef management
"NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) has evolved from providing a limited number of satellite sea surface temperature (SST)-based tools for coral bleaching monitoring, to implementing a decision support system (DSS) monitoring multiple satellite and model-based p...
Enhanced satellite-remote sensing for coral reef management: Next decade
"For the past decade remote sensing products provided by NOAAs Coral Reef Watch (CRW) have used satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST) measurements to inform coral reef managers, scientists, and the public about thermal stress events throughout t...
Ghost of bleaching future: Seasonal outlooks from NOAA's Operational Climate Forecast System