Estimating functional diversity and redundancy of reef communities to inform resilience-based management in the Marianas
Functional diversity represents the range of things that organisms "do" in communities that provide key ecosystem processes (e.g., herbivory, habitat provisioning), necessary to maintain healthy reef and sustainable nearshore fisheries. Species withi...
Patterns, trends, and future projections in Pacific coral reef carbonate budgets
Project Motivation: For a reef to persist in the face of disturbance and maintain ecosystem function, the rate at which the reef is growing must outpace the rate at which it is being eroded away. Carbonate budget assessments allow us to determine whether ...
Data integrator 2.0: Data management capacity building and enhancing vulnerability assessment functionality
Approach: This project aims to utilize the data collated and relationships built in American Samoa as part of the FY21-23 CRCP Funded Data Integrator Project to help managers improve data management and create a variety of data driven products for manager...
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...
Local resource managers, operating with limited funds, often require reliable access to current, spatially-explicit and easily interpretable data to help prioritize coral reef sites for risk assessments and conservation actions. In the past decade, NOAA a...
Reducing Climate Impacts in National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa
In 2016, the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (NMSAS) facilitated a climate change vulnerability assessment for the territory. This project raised awareness of climate change impacts and evaluated broadscale management recommendations to decrea...
Assessing impacts of Hawaii's 2019 coral bleaching event on coral recovery and coral communities
As coral bleaching events become more frequent and severe in Hawaii and managers develop resilience-based management plans, it is crucial that we develop a statewide perspective on how reefs are responding to repeated events. The activities we are proposi...
Scaling up coral reef science through Photogrammetry and Artificial Intelligence
The primary goal of this project is to continue assessing how well photogrammetry (also known as Structure-from-Motion or SfM) can be used to improve our understanding of coral reef demographics and vital rates from colony to habitat-scale across the US P...
Bleaching VI