Sea Urchin restoration is a major component of restoring herbivory to the restoration sites. Our partners at the University of Florida and FL Aquarium have made tremendous progress on R&D over the last 12 months and funds are needed to begin moving R&D to...

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...

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...

Approach: This project aims to utilize the data collated and relationships built in American Samoa as part of the FY21-23 CRCP Funded Data Integrator Project to help managers improve data management and create a variety of data driven products for manager...

Unprecedented Bleaching Threat to the Coral Populations in Hawaii: In September of 2014, researchers documented the worst mass coral bleaching event ever recorded in the main Hawaiian Islands, only the second on record. This year, NOAA's Coral Reef Watch ...

Populations of reef-building corals have not recovered significantly in Florida even though management actions focused on achieving this goal have escalated over the last several decades. There is a general consensus among scientists that recruitment fail...

2017 UPDATE: This project will address continue data collection in the W Maui area that have been the center of CRCP-supported monitoring efforts. Last year's project "FY16 Quantifying condition of coral reef communities in the Kahana and Honokahua Priori...