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The fastest divers you’ve ever seen: installation of a climate monitoring station at Pagan Island
Text and video by Noah Pomeroy I wish we could actually move as fast as we do in this video! In reality, this time-lapse video captures a scuba dive that took place on April 23 over about one hour in … Continue reading
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Tagged ARMS, autonomous reef monitoring structure, biodiversity, bioerosion monitoring unit, BMU, calcification accretion unit, carbonate chemistry, CAU, Charles Young, climate change, climate monitoring station, CNMI, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, CRED, habitat complexity, Jeanette Clark, Mariana Archipelago, National Coral Reef Monitoring Plan, NCRMP, Noah Pomeroy, ocean acidification, Ocean Acidification Program, ocean change, Pacific RAMP, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, Pagan, Pagan Island, photoquadrat, rugosity, Russell Reardon, STR, subsurface temperature recorder
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Coral reef monitoring in the Mariana Archipelago: preliminary results from visual surveys of fishes and benthic habitats
By Kathryn Dennis and Bernardo Vargas-Ángel The PIFSC cruise HA-14-01 officially concluded yesterday, Monday, June 2, when the NOAA Ship Hi`ialakai arrived back at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, from Saipan. During this expedition, which began on March 5, scientists from … Continue reading
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Update from the Mariana Archipelago: monitoring cruise completes work in the southern islands
By Bernardo Vargas-Ángel On April 17, the NOAA Ship Hi`ialakai departed Saipan Harbor and began Leg III of the PIFSC cruise HA-14-01 with a few more days of monitoring operations around Saipan before transiting to the island of Sarigan. With work … Continue reading
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Tagged Acanthaster planci, Agrihan, Aguijan, Alamagan, Anatahan, and Farallon de Pajaros, ARMS, Asuncion, autonomous reef monitoring structure, belt-transect survey, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, bioersion monitoring unit, BMU, calcificatoin accretion unit, CAU, climate monitoring station, CNMI, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, coral bleaching, crown-of-thorns seastars, cruise, Guam, Guguan, HA-14-01, Hi`ialakai, Mariana Archipelago, Maug, NOAA Ship, Pacific RAMP, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, Pagan, Rapid Ecological Assessment, REA site, Rota, Saipan, Saipan Harbor, Sarigan, STR, subsurface temperature recorder, Supply Reef, surveys, Tinian, Uracas, Zealandia Bank
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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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Researchers complete surveys of coral reef ecosystems around O`ahu
By Bernardo Vargas-Ángel Members of the PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) recently concluded a two-week deployment on O`ahu, where they conducted surveys of coral reef ecosystems as part of the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) in … Continue reading
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Tagged ARMS, autonomous reef monitoring structure, belt transect, bioerosion monitoring unit, BLT, BMU, Brett Schumacher, calcification accretion unit, CAU, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, CRED, Dione Swanson, Hi`ialakai, invertebrate, Kaneohe Bay, main Hawaiian islands, NOAA Ship, Oahu, ocean acidification, Pacific RAMP, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, Paula Ayotte, Rapid Ecological Assessment, REA, SB-13-20, small-boat mission, SPC, stationary point count
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The final count: cruise for monitoring of effects of ocean and climate change in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands completed
By Chip Young Scientists from the PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) recently completed a 17-day expedition to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where they conducted coral reef monitoring surveys at Pearl and Hermes Atoll, Lisianski Island, and French Frigate Shoals. These … Continue reading
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