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Federal
Benthic Surveys in Faga'alu, American Samoa: comprehensive assessment of coral demography (adult and juvenile corals) from belt transect surveys in 2013, 2015, and 2020
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The data described here result from benthic coral demographic surveys within belt transects of specified length and width for two life stages (juveniles and adults)... -
Federal
Benthic Surveys in Vatia, American Samoa: benthic cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected during belt transect surveys of coral demography in 2015 and 2020
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Jurisdictional managers have expressed concerns that nutrients from the village of Vatia, Tutuila, American Samoa, are having an adverse effect on the adjacent coral... -
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Identifying coral reef resilience potential in Tutuila, American Samoa based on NOAA coral reef monitoring data from 2010 to 2016
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Declines in the health of coral reef ecosystems lead scientists to search for factors that support reef resilience: the ability of reefs to resist environmental... -
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A synthesis of benthic percent cover data in the Mariana Islands Archipelago covering a period of 22 years (2000-2022) and summarized at three spatial scales (archipelago-, island-, and sub-island-scales)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The benthic percent cover data described in this record is a result of a synthesizing effort led by the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) to integrate benthic cover... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Diel seawater carbonate chemistry observations from a suite of instrumentation deployed at coral reef sites in the Mariana Archipelago in 2017 and 2022
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The diel suite is an autonomous instrument package that measures diel variability in coral reef oceanographic conditions and seawater carbonate chemistry. Diel suite... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Cover Derived from Analysis of Benthic Images Collected for Climate Stations across the Hawaiian Archipelago since 2013
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This data has been combined into a US Pacific-wide InPort record: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/78600. The data described here result from benthic photo-... -
Federal
Benthic Images from Towed-Diver Surveys in the Main Hawaiian Islands to Assess the Mass Coral Bleaching Event in November 2015
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
A team from the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) deployed on a two-week research cruise in November 2015 to... -
Federal
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Large-bodied Fishes of American Samoa in 2015
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The towed-diver method is used to conduct surveys of large-bodied (> 50 cm) fishes in the Hawaiian and Mariana Archipelagos, American Samoa, and the Pacific Remote... -
Federal
Developing a semi-automated CoralNet Bleaching Classifier: annotations and imagery from survey sites across the Hawaiian Archipelago between 2014 and 2019 (NCEI Accession 0269246)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This data package includes datasets and benthic imagery that support the development of a semi-automated coral bleaching classifier in CoralNet. The datasets in this... -
Federal
Structure from Motion (SfM) benthic images collected from Fixed Sites across the U.S. Pacific since 2019
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The photographs described in this dataset were collected using a Structure from Motion (SfM) approach during in-water surveys throughout the U.S. Pacific since 2019.... -
Federal
Benthic Cover Derived from Analysis of Benthic Images Collected in the Hawaiian Archipelago During the 2019 Bleaching Event
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The data described here result from benthic photo-quadrat surveys conducted along transects at stratified random sites (StRS), as well as climate stations and... -
Federal
Oceanographic data, including conductivity, temperature, depth, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence, and turbidity, collected during towed-diver surveys conducted from November 3-18, 2015 in the Main Hawaiian Islands to assess damage from the 2015 mass coral bleaching event
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The oceanographic data included in this dataset were collected by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD;... -
Federal
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified Random Surveys (StRS) of Coral Demography (Adult and Juvenile Corals) across American Samoa in 2015 and 2018
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
NCRMP CORAL DEMOGRAPHIC DATA HAS NOW BEEN MERGED INTO A PACIFIC-WIDE METADATA RECORD -- PLEASE REFER TO https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/71550 FOR MOST... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Water temperature data from subsurface temperature recorders (STRs) deployed at coral reef sites in American Samoa
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This collection contains water temperature data collected using subsurface temperature recorders (STRs) that aid in the monitoring of seawater temperature variability... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Shallow Water Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Profiles for select locations across American Samoa from 2015 to 2023
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The data described here result from near-shore shallow water Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) casts conducted at select sites around American Samoa as part of the... -
Federal
Benthic cover and other related datasets derived from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) imagery of coral reef ecosystems in Pacific Islands Regions
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This collection includes various coral reef data that was extracted by analyses of Structure-from-Motion (SfM) imagery of coral reef ecosystems across the Pacific... -
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Guam Atlantis Ecosystem Model Output Data for Coral Reef Ecosystems
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
A proof-of-concept Guam Atlantis Coral Reef Ecosystem Model has been developed and an added coral module to the Atlantis framework has been validated. The model is... -
Federal
Benthic Imagery from the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (HFMA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Photoquadrat benthic images were collected within the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (KHFMA) in West Maui by the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science... -
Federal
Benthic cover derived from photo transects in Vatia, American Samoa from 2015-11-02 to 2015-11-12 (NCEI Accession 0169726)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The benthic cover data described here were generated from the quantitative analysis of photoquadrat benthic images using image analysis software, whereby random... -
Federal
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Calcification rates of crustose coralline algae derived from calcification accretion units (CAUs) deployed across the Hawaiian Archipelago
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The calcification rate data in this collection are from Calcification Accretion Units (CAUs) that have been retrieved and replaced at existing, long-term monitoring...