Saipan Coral Nursery Pilot Project Trees-2 & Tables-1
The Saipan Coral Nursery Pilot Project (SCNPP) is the first coral nursery in the CNMI and is intended as a pilot study to test and document various restoration approaches and species performance, and eventually provide practical regional guidance for upsc...
Molecular mechanisms of heat tolerance in the threatened coral Orbicella faveolata from the Florida Keys
From previous CRCP funding, we measured bleaching severity and recovery in the threatened coral Orbicella faveolata in the Florida Keys as a function of coral host and algal symbiont genotype on 10 reefs spanning environmental gradients of temperature, li...
Genetic relatedness: Does it matter for successful coral sexual reproduction?
Seven Caribbean coral species have been listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act of 1973. Among the major impediments to delisting these species and restoration efforts is sexual reproductive failure. We know low densities of genetically d...
Near-real-time in situ sea temperature monitoring to improve Coral Reef Watch predictions and support Mission: Iconic Reefs
The project involves the installment of accurate and reliable in situ temperature buoys at each of the Mission:Iconic Reef sites to allow monitoring of bleaching heat stress in near real time at a spatial scale that is needed to support restoration activi...
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...
Socioeconomic monitoring of village MPAs in American Samoa
The aim of this project is to work with American Samoa’s Community-based Fisheries Management Program (CFMP) to formalize their socioeconomic monitoring program. Traditionally, villages in American Samoa controlled exclusive rights to manage their nearsho...
Coral species identification training and capacity building workshop to support management of Indo-Pacific ESA-listed corals
Purpose/need: On October 2009, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to list 83 species of coral as either threatened or endangered under the U.S.Endangered Species Act (ESA). After...
Determination of fertilization, larval survivorship and competency period for ESA broadcasting corals
Understanding of early life history, recruitment limitations and population enhancement of ESA listed corals are Recovery Actions in the Acropora Recovery Plan and priorities listed in the 2016 CRCP rfp. This proposal addresses this need for Caribbean lis...
Assessing reef fish population recovery, SPAGs and lionfish impacts on prey and predator communities in the TER.
We continue monitoring (since 2003) of snapper grouper populations in the TER for a final two years. While we have observed recovery of spawning aggregations (SPAGs) of mutton snapper, knowledge of site fidelity of SPAGs is limited and continued data coll...
Investigating Reproductive Failure in Populations of ESA Coral: Acropora palmata
Reproductive failure in Caribbean corals has been identified as a critical factor contributing to the threatened status of the Acropora spp. and 5 new species and preventing their recovery and delisting from ESA. This proposal is based on findings that as...
Saipan Coral Nursery Pilot Project Trees-2 & Tables-1