Global Socioeconomic Monitoring Initiative Coordination - 2016
This project continues to build on previous SocMon activities in FY17/18. These activities included capacity building and implementation of SocMon/SEM Pasifika data collection efforts. As well as the development and implementation of new indicators includ...
Support for a Caribbean Extension of the Coral Reef Early Warning System(CREWS) Network
This project is in the Caribbean, one of the CRCP regions of interest, and provides support for International Goals 1 and 2. The European Union, through the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (5Cs), has contributed over $600,000 (with up to $900,00...
Implementing the CRCP International Strategy in the Wider Caribbean: Projects Support
This project implements Priority Goal 1 of the CRCP International Strategy to support MPA networks and strengthen local MPA management capacity in the Wider Caribbean region by continuing to support MPA capacity-building initiatives, principally activitie...
Climate, Biodiversity and Fisheries in the Coral Triangle: Embracing the E in Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management
The Coral Triangle (CT) is the most diverse and biologically complex marine ecosystem on the planet. The waters of the CT provide food security, livelihoods, and coastal protection to 100s of millions of people across its culturally diverse coastal commun...
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...
Global Socioeconomic Monitoring Initiative Coordination - 2016