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Tag Archives: Adel Heenan
What happens to reef fish after coral bleaching?
by Adel Heenan For the past month, researchers aboard the NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai have been navigating across the Pacific Ocean to survey coral reef ecosystems at remote Wake Atoll and the Mariana Archipelago. This expedition includes additional surveys at Jarvis … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem, Uncategorized
Tagged Adel Heenan, coral, coral bleaching, Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, coral reef ecosystems, coral reefs, CREP, El Niño, fish biomass, Jarvis Island, La Niña, Mariana Archipelago, NOAA, NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai, nutrients, Pacific Remote Islands, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, PIFSC, piscivore, planktivore, reef fish, upwelling, Wake Atoll
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SE16-02: American Samoa Reef Fish Survey Summary
by Adel Heenan and Marc Nadon For the past three weeks, the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette has been the support platform for the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s reef fish survey project. This research project was led by the … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
Tagged Adel Heenan, American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences, biomass, Coral Reef Conservation Program, Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, CRCP, CREP, detritivore, dmwr, herbivore, invertivore, Marc Nadon, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program, NCRMP, NOAA, Ofu, Olosega, omnivore, Oscar Elton Sette, Pacific RAMP, PIFSC, re-breather, reef fish, reef fish survey, Rose Atoll, SCUBA, Ta`u, Tutuila
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How can an ecosystem approach be used to address climate change?
By Adel Heenan and Amanda Dillon The Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), in collaboration with scientists from 16 international institutions, recently published a paper in the journal Marine Policy that discusses how coastal fisheries management … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
Tagged Adel Heenan, Amanda Dillon, and invasive species, Asia-Pacific, climate change, coastal fisheries management, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, CRED, EAFM, ecosystem approach to fisheries management, eutrophication, habitat degradation, Marine Policy, ocean acidification, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC, pollution, tropical fisheries
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Coral reef monitoring surveys completed around the islands and atolls of American Samoa
By Bernardo Vargas-Ángel With work complete in the U.S. territory of American Samoa, the NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai stopped in the port of Pago Pago Harbor for a short pause between Legs III and IV of PIFSC cruise HA-15-01. Led by … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
Tagged Adel Heenan, American Samoa, ASRAMP, Aunu‘u, benthic, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, biological installations, coral, coral bleaching, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, COTS, CRED, crown-of-thorns, ecosystem surveys, fish monitoring brief, fishes, microbes, NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai, oceanographic instruments, Ofu-Olosega, Pacific RAMP, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, Pago Pago Harbor, PIFSC, Rapid Ecological Assessment, REA, Rose Atoll, sea stars, Swains, Ta`u, towed-diver surveys, Tutuila
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Meaningful monitoring
By Adel Heenan and Ivor Williams The fish team of the PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) recently published a report summarizing its ecological monitoring activities in 2012–2013. This publication is the first in a new series of annual status reports … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
Tagged Adel Heenan, annual status report, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, CRED, Ivor Williams, Jarvis Island, monitoring, monitoring brief, monitoring report, National Coral Reef Monitoring Plan, Pacific RAMP, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program
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Reef monitoring at Wake Island: preliminary results from fish surveys
By Dione Swanson After departing Honolulu on March 5, the NOAA Ship Hi’ialakai arrived at Wake Island on March 14. It was the first stop for PIFSC cruise HA-14-01, a Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) expedition that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adel Heenan, and Napoleon wrasse, and sea-surface temperature buoy, ARMS, autonomous reef monitoring structure, benthic survey, bioerosion monitoring unit, BMU, Bolbometopon muricatum, bumphead parrotfish, calcification accretion unit. CAU, Cheilinus undulatus, climate station, conductivity, coral cover, Coral Reef Conservation Program, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, CRCP, CRED, CTD cast, depth, detritivore, Dione Swanson, dissolved inorganic carbon, DR-14-007, fish biomass, fish monitoring brief, HA-14-01, herbivore, Hi`ialakai, invertebrate, microbial communities, National Coral Reef Monitoring Plan, NCRMP, omnivore, Pacific RAMP, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, Pacific Remote Island Areas, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, preliminary results, primary consumer, Rapid Ecological Assessment, REA, REA site, reef fish survey, secondary consumer, SST, stationary point count, STR, subsurface temperature recorder, temperature, transect, visual census, Wake Island, water sample
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