Implementation of coral restoration for coastal protection
The benefit of coastal protection that coral reefs provide from wave energy is increased by having a high abundance and cover of corals that create bottom surface roughness. This has created increased interest in understanding how restoration can enhance ...
Implementation of a Demonstration Site in the Puerto Rico HFA with Comprehensive Coral Reef Restoration at Palomino Island
This project will expand coral restoration at an important coral reef site in Puerto Rico that has been degraded by global and local stressors, but where initial work has demonstrated potential for successful restoration. The coral reefs at Palomino Islan...
The proposed funding will be used to acquire 2019 imagery for western Puerto Rico. This imagery will be used as the basis for updating the existing, but out-of-date 2010 land cover data. The new date of land cover will provide current conditions for the w...
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...
Reef fish calibration study to enable the use of long-term, fishery-independent data by fisheries and regional managers
Puerto Rico's coral reefs support multimillion dollar fishing and tourism industries (Ault et al. 2013). Fishes including hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus), snappers (e.g., Lutjanus, Ocyurus spp.), groupers (e.g., Epinephelus, Mycteroperca spp.), and parrotf...
Treatment wetlands at the Guánica wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
The Guánica wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is the largest source of nitrogen in the Guánica Bay/ Rio Loco watershed. As such, NOAA identified the construction of treatment wetlands to remove nutrients at the WWTP as a high priority restoration project ...
Restoration Demonstration Project: Experimental input into designing coral restoration for coastal protection
The objective of this project is to support scaling-up coral restoration for coastal hazard risk reduction in vulnerable areas. We will work towards relating coral restoration benchmarks with relationships between coral reefs, structural complexity, and h...
Limits of Acceptable Change Pilot Study in the NE Reserves and Culebra to support the development of management actions
The term 'carrying capacity', as applied to controlling human impacts in protected areas, is increasingly understood to be affected by more than changes in ecology and habitat damage; visitor demands, behavior, and experiences, which are based on factors ...
Expanding erosion and sediment control capacity throughout Guanica and Cabo Rojo watersheds, PR
NOAA CRCP’s has provided funding to regionally adapt and refine erosion and sediment control (E&SC) techniques (e.g., hydroseeding) and build capacity for E&SC across the Guanica watershed. This investment has led to the stabilization of nearly 20 acres w...
Reducing LBSP threats from unpaved roads on Culebra Island
The coral reef ecosystems of Culebra are some of the more pristine habitats within the northeastern Caribbean marine biodiversity (Hernández-Delgado et al., 2000). However, long-term monitoring has shown an alarming 5-11% annual decline in coral cover in ...
Implementation of coral restoration for coastal protection