The goal of this project is to characterize high-priority areas of interest between 0 - 40m identified during the Mapping Gap Analysis Project (FY 21-23) in coordination with CNMI jurisdictional leadership. NCCOS will develop high-quality benthic habitat ...

Many organizations, including NOAA, need effective approaches to evaluate and predict changes in coral reefs at multiple, ecologically meaningful scales (i.e., centimeters to meters to kilometers). This ability requires the use of modeling approaches to i...