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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
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
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
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
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
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
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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