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...
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...
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...
How should wave energy inform coral restoration actions: review and recommendations
Coral restoration actions need to be scaled up across US Caribbean jurisdictions likely including Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to address coral reef ecosystem degradation and physical impacts from Hurricanes Irma and Maria. A best manageme...
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...
Evaluate changes to Acropora spp population distribution following Hurricane Irma in FKNMS
The Acropora palmata population at numerous upper Florida Keys reef sites were mapped in 2006. A subset of these were re-mapped in 2014 to document long term (8 year) changes to the population, and then again in 2015 to assess the short term (1 year) impa...
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...
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...
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...
NOAA, as co-chair of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, is responsible for hosting one meeting in FY25 (location TBD). This project supports NOAA's responsibility to host these two meetings and general administrative management needs of the USCRTF. Specific ...
CRCP/CoRIS Web Site Upgrade and Merger