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Meteorological Data (including visibility)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The National Ocean Service (NOS) maintains a long-term database containing data from active and historic stations installed all over the United States and U.S.... -
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Kelp distribution off California
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This data set delineates kelp beds (Nereocystis leutkeana and Macrocystis spp.) along the Pacific Coast of California. Multiple years of kelp mapping data for the... -
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Reef fish abundance and size data collected by transect and stationary point count methods: a calibration to enable the use of long-term, fishery-independent data by fisheries and regional managers in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) (NCEI Accession 0299733)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project ensures that the existing data from previous fishery independent surveys can be combined with data collected under new methodology, ensuring preservation... -
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Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program: Rapid Ecological Assessments of Fish Belt Transect Surveys (BLT) in the Pacific Ocean from 2000-09-09 to 2009-05-05 (NCEI Accession 0162462)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Belt transects (BLT) are a non-invasive underwater-survey method that enumerates the diverse components of diurnally active shallow-water reef fish assemblages. At... -
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Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites collect visible and infrared cloud imagery as well as monitoring the atmospheric, oceanographic,... -
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Characterization of reef fish populations within St. Thomas East End Reserve (STEER), USVI
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
NCCOS' Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) is working closely with a number of divisions in the USVI DPNR (e.g., Divisions of Fish and Wildlife and... -
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Guam Long-term Coral Reef Monitoring Program Reef Fish Surveys since 2010
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The Government of Guam's Comprehensive Long-term Monitoring at Permanent Sites in Guam project, also known as the Guam Long-term Coral Reef Monitoring Program... -
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DMSP OLS - Operational Linescan System
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Visible and infrared imagery from DMSP Operational Linescan System (OLS) instruments are used to monitor the global distribution of clouds and cloud top temperatures... -
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Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) photographic identification catalog collected for mark-recapture abundance estimation and biological sampling from small boats in Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, from 2007-07-24 to 2007-08-30 (NCEI Accession 0237742)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center conducted a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) photo-identification mark-... -
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Reefs for the future: Resilience of coral reefs in the main Hawaiian Islands
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Declining health of coral reef ecosystems led scientists to search for factors that support reef resilience: the ability of reefs to resist and recover from... -
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RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Gulf-wide assessment of habitat use and habitat-specific production estimates of nekton in turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project assesses the use of turtlegrass by finfish and shellfish across the northern Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico) and evaluates the specific ways... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified Random Surveys (StRS) of Reef Fish, including Benthic Estimate Data of the Pacific Remote Island Areas since 2014
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The stationary point count (SPC) method is used to conduct reef fish surveys in the Hawaiian and Mariana Archipelagos, American Samoa, and the Pacific Remote Island... -
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NOAA Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps and geographic information systems data from 1900 to 2009
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This collection comprises the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) data for various regions in U.S. coastal waters. ESI data characterize estuarine environments and... -
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Red sea urchin habitat suitability model for Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Biogeographic Assessment
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) updates and revises the management plans for each of its 13 sanctuaries. This process, which is open to the public,... -
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La Parguera, Puerto Rico (2001 - Present) and Guanica, Puerto Rico (2012) fish assessment and monitoring data: 2012
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This fish and benthic composition database is the result of a multifaceted effort described below. The intent of this work is five fold: 1) To spatially characterize... -
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NCCOS Long-term Monitoring Project: Regional Ecological Assessments and National Benthic Inventory
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) works in partnership with other federal agencies and coastal states to conduct assessments of ecological... -
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Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Film
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The United States Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) is a polar orbiting meteorological sensor with two... -
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St. John, USVI Fish Assessment and Monitoring Data (2002 - Present)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This fish and benthic composition database is the result of a multifaceted effort described below.The intent of this work is five fold: 1) To spatially characterize... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Coral demographic data (adult and juvenile corals, species, colony length, condition, etc.) collected during Stratified Random Surveys (StRS) across the US Pacific since 2013 derived from in-situ diver surveys and structure-from-motion imagery
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)... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish, including benthic estimate data of the Pacific Remote Island Areas
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Reef fish survey data provided in this collection were gathered as part of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Program...