Southeast Florida Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations – Addressing Ecosystem Management Information Needs
Assessing and monitoring reef fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) continue to be one of the highest priority fisheries ecosystem management topics in Florida’s Coral Reefs. The phenomena are recognized as critical components of fish population dynamics and ...
Observations and Models for Coral Water Quality Targets in South Florida
The proposed project addresses 3 of the 4 CRCP LBSP Pillar priorities.The project will “Provide technical assistance and scientific support to management agencies in establishing water quality targets for sediments and nutrients and conduct baseline chara...
Southeast Florida Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations - Addressing Ecosystem Management Information Needs
Identifying and managing reef fish spawning aggregations and multi-species aggregation sites continue to rise to a top priority for fisheries and ecosystem management goals in southeast Florida. This project builds upon the success of the National Centers...
Investigating water quality correlations to coral health on the Florida reef tract
Do increasing nutrient concentrations correlate with coral health metrics on the Florida reef tract? That is the question this project aims to answer. There is increasing concern by stakeholders that nutrient runoff from the Florida mainland is causing de...
Calibrating and Validating watershed models for Government Cut, FL
It has become obvious to agencies interested and mandated to manage Biscayne Bay, which includes the Government Cut priority watershed that it is in immediate need of attention. Specifically, it needs effective management actions to reduce nutrients and o...
Integrating LBSP into the investigation of resilient coral genotypes and ongoing CRCP programs
There are a number of CRCP funded investigations that would benefit from incorporation of routine monitoring and assessment of water quality conditions (nutrients and chlorophyll a) at the time of sampling or in the experimental design for laboratory expe...
Experimental evaluation of nutrient effects on coral mesocosms
The Experimental Reef Lab jointly developed between NOAA/AOML and the University of Miami provides an experimental laboratory where nutrient, sediment, temperature, salinity, and carbonate parameters can be manipulated on a fine-scale to simulate diel cyc...
Improving habitat maps of South Florida Reef Tract to support ecosystem management
This project will continue to manage and create benthic habitat maps from new multibeam and lidar surveys within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). New underwater video from drop cameras and ROVs, as well as still camera images from SCUBA...
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (FK-IEA)
This project will identify and quantify thresholds between ecosystem pressures and indicators that should be used to set management targets for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). Not only will identifying thresholds allow us to set indica...
Assessing status and location of reef fish spawning aggregations in the SEFCRI region
Reef fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) are a vital part of the life cycle of many reef fishes. Unfortunately, the act of aggregating makes these species particularly vulnerable to overfishing. The protection and conservation of FSAs is critical to the sus...
Southeast Florida Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations – Addressing Ecosystem Management Information Needs