AOML capacity for coral propagation and technology development
Problems:NOAA does not have a dedicated facility for the settlement and grow out of ESA-listed corals, critical for restoration and restoration researchState-of-the-art stress-testing facilities at AOML lack a source of coral critical for research Coral p...
Use of 'Omics for Coral Restoration and Disease Investigations
This project consolidates two FY21-23 projects and integrates omic technologies into coral health and disease investigations related to the CRCP Restoration Pillar priorities R2.2, R3.1 and R3.2. This project also addresses Jurisdictional Priorities FL, U...
Reef Restoration Capacity Building in American Samoa
This project supports reef restoration capacity building in American Samoa. National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (NMSAS) will continue to support territorial restoration activities. This project will track ongoing restoration efforts and continue t...
Forecast modeling coral populations to inform restoration planning
One of the challenges of restoration planning is forecasting how many outplants will be needed to meet restoration goals at a given site. Additional challenge are that restoration goals are often defined in terms of percent cover rather than number of cor...
NOAA has emerged as the lead for Mission: Iconic Reefs, as requested by the MIR partners. Thus, we must provide foundational elements of the program to allow for success of the implementing partners in their areas of expertise (e.g., coral and grazer rest...
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...
NOAA has emerged as the lead for Mission: Iconic Reefs, as requested by the MIR partners. Thus, we must provide foundational elements of the program to allow for the success of the implementing partners in their areas of expertise (e.g., coral and grazer ...
Improving efficacy coral restoration through substrate stabilization
With the increasing frequency and severity of acute disturbance events such as mass coral bleaching and storms together with continued ship groundings, there is growing concern over the loss of reef complexity across all US Pacific jurisdictions. The dest...
Improving Pacific coral restoration through a coordinated experimental restoration network
Restoration efforts are constrained by time and resource availability, necessitating improvements in restoration efficiency or success of interventions to keep pace with the rates of reef decline. Major improvements in coral restoration have been driven p...
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...
AOML capacity for coral propagation and technology development