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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessing and Monitoring Cryptic Reef Diversity of Colonizing Marine Invertebrates using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) Deployed at Coral Reef Sites across the Mariana Archipelago from 2011 to 2017
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset includes species identification data gathered from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS). These ARMS are used by the NOAA Pacific Islands... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Cover Derived from Analysis of Benthic Images Collected for Climate Stations across American Samoa since 2015
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The coral reef benthic community data described here result from the annotation (classification) of benthic images collected during photoquadrat surveys conducted by... -
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Slope Grid Derived from Gridded Bathymetry for Select U.S. Coral Reef Locations across the Pacific Ocean
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Slope is derived for islands and banks across the U.S. Pacific Islands Region primarily from gridded multibeam bathymetry collected aboard NOAA Ships Hi'ialakai and... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Images Collected from Stratified Random Sites (StRS) across the Pacific Remote Island Areas since 2014
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The data described here are benthic habitat imagery that result from benthic photo-quadrat surveys conducted along transects at stratified random sites across the... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Complexity and Urchin Abundance at Climate Stations in the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2014 to 2018
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Benthic complexity and urchin abundance data were collected as part of NOAA's ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). These data were gathered around... -
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Cryptobiota metabarcoding using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) Deployed at Coral Reef Sites across Hawaiian Archipelago from 2010 to 2016
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The data described here includes cytochrome oxidase I (COI) DNA metabarcoding data collected from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS). ARMS were deployed by... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Water temperature data from subsurface temperature recorders (STRs) deployed at coral reef sites in the Pacific Remote Island Areas
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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Benthic Surveys in Faga'alu, 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 —
The benthic cover data described herein were generated by the NOAA Ecosystem Sciences Division (former Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, CREP) from the quantitative... -
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Linkages between reef fish demographics and benthic habitat characteristics in Tutuila, American Samoa and Main Hawaiian Islands
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Benthic habitats play vital roles in the distribution and abundances of marine resources. Understanding how fish populations respond to variability of benthic habitat... -
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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... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Large-bodied Fishes of the Pacific Remote Island Areas since 2014
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... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Complexity and Urchin Abundance at Climate Stations in American Samoa from 2015 to 2018
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Benthic complexity and urchin abundance data were collected as part of NOAA's ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). These data were gathered around... -
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Coral demographics data (adult and juvenile corals) from belt transect surveys in Fagaʻalu, American Samoa from 2013-04-01 to 2013-04-10 and from 2015-10-29 to 2015-11-11 (NCEI Accession 0169727)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The data described here were collected in Fagaʻalu, American Samoa in 2013 and 2015 via belt transect surveys of coral demography (adult and juvenile corals) by the... -
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Coral reef ecosystem marine protected area monitoring in Fagamalo, American Samoa: benthic images collected during belt transect surveys in 2015
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
In 2010 the village of Fagamalo, Tutuila, American Samoa, designated a no-take Marine Protected Area that sees the protection of 2.25 square kilometers of ocean.... -
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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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Pacific Reef Monitoring and Assessment Program: Line-Point-Intercept (LPI) Surveys for Benthic Cover at Coral Reef Sites across the Pacific Ocean from 2005 to 2012
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
A REA survey is a collection of inter-disciplinary protocols for gathering data pertaining to ecologically relevant biological components of a reef habitat over small... -
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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... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Images Collected During Photoquadrat Surveys at Climate Stations across the Mariana Archipelago since 2014
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The data described here are benthic images (photographs) collected during photoquadrat surveys conducted by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC),... -
Federal
Coral reef fish biomass and benthic cover data from Timor-Leste in June 2013 (NCEI Accession 0165354)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Coral reef fish and benthos were surveyed at 150 shallow-water coral reef sites across the north coast of Timor-Leste and around Atauro Island in June 2013 during a... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Cover Derived from Analysis of Benthic Images Collected during Stratified Random Surveys (StRS) across the Mariana Archipelago since 2014
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 across the Mariana archipelago in 2014, 2017,...