"As one of the most isolated archipelagos in the world, Hawaii possesses some of the highest levels of marine endemic species in the world. This chain of islands stretches for more than 2,500 km from the island of Hawaii in the southeast to Kure Atoll (th...
Satellite detection of 2002 coral bleaching in the Hawaiian archipelago
During the 2002 summer, a major coral bleaching event occurred throughout the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The NOAA Coral Reef Watch's satellite near-real-time coral bleaching HotSpot/Degree Heating Week (DHW) monitoring system successfully detected the...
Characterization of Pacific Island benthic habitats - Putting the pieces together
The NOAA Fisheries Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) is building capacity, in concert with partner agencies, to map benthic habitats to depths of ~600 m in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands.
Putting Reef Check and SocMon to the test: Cost-effective approaches and results to improve reef monitoring and marine protected areas (MPA) management in a complex urban environment
This paper discusses the first urban MPA in the City of Lapu Lapu, Cebu, Philippines. The current status and proposed plans were presented
Application of paleoclimatology to coral reef monitoring and management
"The skeletons of reef-building corals are valuable archives of climatic and environmental information. Paleoclimatic data chiefly have been generated in areas most sensitive to global or regional climatic variability. However, these records also provide ...
Spatial distribution of large mobile predators in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"Sharks (Carcharhinidae) and jacks (Carangidae) were surveyed by towed divers at the atolls and banks of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) annually from 2000 to 2003. Divers were towed behind a small boat on a 60-m line at depths ranging from 1 to ...
Towed-diver surveys, a method for mesoscale spatial assessment of benthic reef habitat: A case study at Midway Atoll in the Hawaiian Archipelago
"An integrated method for reef benthic habitat assessment to the depth limits of conventional SCUBA is described, in which divers maneuver boards equipped with digital video, temperature, and depth recorders while being towed behind a small boat. The tow ...
Mass coral bleaching on high-latitude reefs in the Hawaiian Archipelago
"The first mass coral bleaching ever recorded in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), a chain of small islands, atolls, and banks that span ~1800 kilometers over more than five degrees of latitude in the northern part of the Hawaiian Archipela...
Status of coral reefs in the Hawaiian Archipelago