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Water depth and acoustic backscatter data collected from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in Caribbean Sea, from 2015-03-18 to 2015-04-07 (NCEI Accession 0131859)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Team, in collaboration with NOAA vessel NOAA Ship Nancy Foster and territory, federal, and private sector partners, conducted the... -
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Parrotfish surveys and paired coral and parrotfish coral predation surveys conducted in the Caribbean Sea and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 2013-07-02 to 2019-09-11 (NCEI Accession 0293333)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Data associated with the publication 'Ecological drivers of parrotfish coral predation vary across spatial scales', comparing parrotfish coral predation intensity as... -
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Principal Components Analysis (PCA) Image used to characterize the complexity of the seafloor around St. John, USVI
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Eight complexity surfaces (mean depth, standard deviation of depth, curvature, plan curvature, profile curvature, rugosity, slope, and slope of slope) were stacked... -
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NCCOS Caribbean Fishery Acoustic Assessment: Fish Density Data Collection from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, from 2008-03-26 to 2014-05-31 (NCEI Accession 0156395)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
These datasets show acoustically detected fish densities throughout the Caribbean ocean. NOAA/NCCOS collected these datasets to help characterize broad-scale fish... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Socioeconomic Secondary Data (human population, economic impacts of fishing and tourism, community well being, physical infrastructure and governance) in the US Virgin Islands from 1995 to 2018 (NCEI Accession 0191508)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset is a compilation and synthesis of secondary data in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) corresponding to the following topics: Human population changes near... -
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The Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD) Version 2 - Global, 4 km Sea Surface Temperature and Related Thermal Stress Metrics for 1982-2008 (NODC Accession Number 0054501)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD) is a collection of sea surface temperature (SST) and related thermal stress metrics, developed specifically for... -
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Behavior of parrotfishes (Labridae, Scarinae) in St. Croix from 2015-07-06 to 2015-07-26 (NCEI Accession 0157087)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
To better understand the functional roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs in the Caribbean this project documented the foraging behavior and diets of six species of... -
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NOAA Polyline Shapefile - ROV transects, US Caribbean - St. Thomas and St. John - Project NF-03-10-USVI - (2010), UTM 20N NAD83
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This shapefile denotes the location of underwater photos and/or video that were collected by NOAA scientists using a Spectrum Phantom S2 ROV (remotely operated... -
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Water Depth and acoustic backscatter data collected from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in the US Caribbean/ Puerto Rico and St. Thomas from 2016-04-07 to 2016-04-26 (NCEI Accession 0157612)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Team, in collaboration with NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, federal, academic, and private sector partners conducted the 2016 Seafloor... -
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Water depth and acoustic backscatter data collected from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in Caribbean Sea, Buck Island Reef and Virgin Islands National Coral Reef Monuments, U.S. Virgin Islands from 2006-03-21 to 2006-04-02 (NCEI Accession 0131851)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) conducted the third year of an ongoing scientific research mission on board NOAA Ship NANCY FOSTER. The... -
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CRCP-Comparative status of extant Acropora cervicornis NCEI Accession 0127933
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This project was funded for two years by CRCP (FY13-14) and built upon one year of pilot work conducted in FY12 funded by NMFS-SEFSC and SERO as an NRC postdoctoral... -
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2014 NOAA NGS Topobathy Lidar: St Croix (USVI)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
These data were collected by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration National Geodetic Survey Remote Sensing Division using a Riegl VQ820G system. The data... -
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Coral Reef Ecosystem Research Consisting Of Biologic Data, LADCP, SADCP, and Flowthrough Data from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in Caribbean Sea from 2007-03-30 to 2011-05-07 (NCEI Accession 0273560)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists from the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef fish communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2019-06-08 to 2019-08-09 (NCEI Accession 0216069)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef fish communities in St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) using the... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Erosion data from bioerosion monitoring units (BMUs) deployed at select U.S. coral reef sites in the Atlantic Ocean
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The erosion rates provided in this collection were collected from bioerosion monitoring units (BMUs) retrieved at existing long-term monitoring sites during NOAA... -
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Depth (Mean) Layer used to identify, delineate and classify moderate-depth benthic habitats around St. John, USVI
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Mean depth was calculated from the bathymetry surface for each cell using the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Focal Statistics "Mean" parameter. Mean depth represents the... -
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Downscaled projections of Sea Surface Temperatures and Degree Heating Weeks in the wider Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Projections of the onset of annual coral bleaching conditions in the Caribbean under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 are produced using an ensemble of... -
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NOAA TIFF Image - 4m Backscatter Mosaic , W00216 USVI 2011 , Seafloor Characterization of the US Caribbean - Nancy Foster - NF-11-1 (2011), UTM 20N NAD83
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This image represents a 4 meter resolution backscatter mosaic of of a sharply sloping swath of the St. John Shelf, south of St. John, US Virgin Islands. NOAA's... -
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National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Calcification Rates of Crustose Coralline Algae Derived from Calcification Accretion Units (CAUs) Deployed at St. Croix from 2014 to 2019
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The calcification rate data described here are from calcification accretion units (CAUs) that have been retrieved (and replaced) at existing, long-term monitoring... -
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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...