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...
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...
Statistical models to better link projection models of oceanic carbonate systems to reef-scale OA impacts
This project will entail a Pacific basin-wide carbonate chemistry analysis, presenting a synthesis of observed spatial and temporal patterns in the reef carbonate system across the Pacific. A post-doc (Heidi Hirsch) is building a statistical model to desc...
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...
Modeling contribution to IPCC 6th Assessment Report WG II
To project reef futures using the new generation of GCMs and present these results in the WG II report I will:1) Confer with lead authors to design and plan analysis.2) Acquire new model data (OA and SST for what will be available (this will not be the fu...
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 ...
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...
Coral reefs provide nearly $30 billion in net benefits in goods and services to world economies each year, including tourism, fisheries, and coastal protection, and an estimated $3.4 billion annually in total economic value to the U.S. The "Coral Reef Con...
Carbon emissions reductions for corals