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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
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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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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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Reef monitoring cruise in the main Hawaiian Islands completed: preliminary results from fish surveys
Last Friday afternoon, Aug. 23, the NOAA Ship Hi`ialakai returned to Honolulu from a Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) cruise (HA-13-04) during which staff of the PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) and partners conducted surveys of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adel Heenan, and depth cast, ARMS, autonomous reef monitoring structures, benthic community, benthic composition, benthic sample, benthic survey, bioerosion monitoring unit, BMU, calcification accretion unit, CAU, complexity, consumer group, Coral Reef Conservation Program, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, CRCP, CRED, cruise, CTD cast, deepwater CTD cast, depth strata, detritivore, detritus, dissolved inorganic carbon, EAR, ecological acoustic recorders, encrusting algae, eshy macroalgae, fish assemblage, fish biomass, fish monitoring brief, fish monitoring brief: main Hawaiian Islands 2013, functional group, HA-13-04, hard coral cover, hard corals, Hawaii, herbivore, Hi`ialakai, invertebrates, invertivores, Ivor Williams, Kaua`i, Lāna`i, main Hawaiian Island, Maui, microbial community, Moloka`i, monitoring, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program, Ni‘ihau, NOAA Ship, Oahu, omnivores, Pacific RAMP, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, preliminary results, primary consumer, Rapid Ecological Assessments REA, REA site, reef fish, salinity, secondary consumers, shallow-water conductivity, size class, soft corals, stationary point count, STR, structure, subsurface temperature recorders, survey, temperature, TL, total alkalinity, total fish biomass, total length, transect, turf algae, visual census, water sample
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Scientists continue surveys of a marine protected area in Maui
By Kevin Lino To help assess the effectiveness of an unusual approach to management of marine resources in Hawaii, our team spent the week of April 22 conducting underwater surveys of fishes and benthic habitat along the coastline of West … Continue reading
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Tagged algae, benthic habitat, chub, Coral Reef Conservation Program, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, corals, CRCP, CRED, DAR, Darla White, Division of Aquatic Resources, DLNR, fish, fisheries management area, Hawai`i Department of Land and Natural Resources, herbivore, Heterocentrotus mammillatus, invertebrate, Ivor Williams, Kahekili, Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area, Ka`anapali, Kevin Lino, KHFMA, marine protected area, Maui, parrotfish, phase shift, red slate pencil urchin, sea urchin, surgeonfish, yellow tang, Zebrasoma flavescens
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