The overall project objective is to improve the technology, security, and use of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force website, coralreef.gov. The approach for this project is to use a content management system (CMS)-based website platform with relevant plug-ins...
This project will support an external contract that will be executed by OCM Coral Program Headquarters to upgrade and merge the CoRIS and CRCP websites into one website to provide a unified CRCP web presence.Background:There is a known security vulnerabil...
Comprehensive Ecosystem Services Valuation of U.S. Coral Reefs
This project aims to scope, identify, estimate, and present economic data to describe the suite of economic values (goods and services) provided by U.S. coral reefs. This project updates the coral reef valuation estimates from the 2001-2011 studies, and w...
MPA Boundary efficacy and biotic movements in Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve is a territorial/federal MPA that is comprised of over 1000 acres of coral reef, mangrove, estuarine and terrestrial habitats. Managers at DPNR and NPS are uncertain whether the small area of...
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) to evaluate reef resilience and potential restoration sites in Kaneohe Bay
There are limitations in our current methodologies in how we evaluate and survey stressors. Typically NOAA uses snorkeling or SCUBA divers to survey these impacts which are time and labor intensive activities. Having a rapid, reliable, and inexpensive met...
Characterizing the transcriptomic basis of disease resistance in two critically important Caribbean corals
Disease is still a primary threat to both natural recovery and the success of outplants and there is a dire need for both diagnostic and effective intervention tools to manage disease risk. Libro and Vollmer (2016) described a set of 35 differentially exp...
Development of Best Management Practices guidance for coral restoration monitoring
This project will synthesize and build on existing coral monitoring for restoration, develop a guidance document, field test the methodology with post-hurricane restoration monitoring, and synthesize survey data from October 2016 coral impacts survey in F...
This project will purchase hardware (~32TB) that will be integrated into NODC’s archival system. This hardware will cover the capacity needs of archiving data that was collected using CRCP funds. While some of the data will not be large (in terms of memor...
Determination of fertilization, larval survivorship and competency period for ESA broadcasting corals
Understanding of early life history, recruitment limitations and population enhancement of ESA listed corals are Recovery Actions in the Acropora Recovery Plan and priorities listed in the 2016 CRCP rfp. This proposal addresses this need for Caribbean lis...
Quantifying extinction risk for ESA-listed coral species in the Wider Caribbean
THE ISSUE: Corals continue to undergo precipitous declines in population size. Seven Caribbean coral species have been listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), NOAA is required to monitor population status and trends throughout these species' range,...
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