This project provides supplies to assemble coral disease response kits to be distributed to key participants in the SCTLD response effort across Puerto Rico. The response kits include all materials and supplies needed to apply permitted treatments to cora...
This project will provide funding for gaps identified in implementation R&D and program evaluation. Outstanding implementation R&D needs include funding to ensure the level of genetic diversity needed for Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis in Phase...
Capacity Building and Planning for Coral Reef Restoration
This project will have 32 main objectives which are outlined below (1) Support capacity building workshops for US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Coral Restoration Planning groups.Funds will be used to host workshops in Years 1 and 3 in the USVI, and ...
Coral Restoration Capacity Building in American Samoa
The purpose of this project is to support coral restoration efforts in American Samoa to meet the priorities stated in the American Samoa Restoration Plan. This includes continued support to maintain and expand the AS coral nursery and continue evaluation...
This project will also provide funding for a component of Phase 1B which will include capacity building for herbivore reintroduction that includes continued research and development of best practices for King crab and diadema rearing and outplanting. In a...
FKNMS will lead Mission: Iconic Reefs ecosystem-based fieldwork activities at IR restoration sites, in order to track, understand and enhance coral survival. To properly undertake this work, FKNMS requests support for six full-time contractors to make up ...
Optimizing invertebrate herbivore restocking strategies to enhance coral recruitment
The incorporation of grazers in coral restoration activities is recognized as an international coral restoration best practice and is an important component of NOAA’s Mission: Iconic Reefs (M:IR) plan. Staff from the NMFS Southeast Regional Office (SERO) ...
The US Virgin Islands Coral Reef Restoration Plan (2023) provides a benchmark of stated goals and targets to track coral restoration success at 6 sites on St. Croix (4 sites) and St. Thomas (2 sites). The restorations are and will be implemented by multip...
Develop Guide to Image-based Monitoring for Restoration
Coral restoration planning is underway in more and more US coral reef jurisdictions. Monitoring coral reef restoration is critical to capture quantitative data to evaluate restoration progress towards success and enable mid-course corrections as needed. R...
Operationalizing Coral Population Level Assessment to Guide Restoration Monitoring and Success
To have wild coral populations growing comfortably above rates of replacement is a core goal of coral management, conservation, and restoration. In fact this metric - coral population-level growth rate - makes a robust and early indicator of realized resi...
Support for SCTLD Response in Puerto Rico