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Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean |
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Partners and Links:
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A Collaboration Between:
- NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
- NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO)
- NOAA's Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
- NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)
- NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
- US National Park Service (NPS)
- US Geological Survey (USGS)
- The US Virgin Islands Division of Fish and Wildlife
- NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office Habitat Characterization and Mapping Program
- Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center
- Caribbean Fishery Management Council
- Caribbean Coral Reef Institute
This partnership based study is supported by NOAA’s by Coral Reef Conservation Program.
NCCOS Coral Reef Ecosystem Benthic Habitat Mapping Activities
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Atlantic/Caribbean:
Pacific:
NCCOS Coral Reef Biological Monitoring & Assessment Activities
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Atlantic/Caribbean:
- Caribbean Essential Fish Habitat
(Collaboration with Caribbean Fisheries Management Council) - South Atlantic Essential Fish Habitat
(Collaboration with South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council) - Biogeography Program Reef Fish Ecology Studies
(Collaboration with NPS, USGS, USVI Gov't & UPR)
Recent NCCOS Coral Reef Ecosystem Related Publications
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Atlantic/Caribbean:
- Cross shelf habitat utilization patterns of reef fishes in southwestern Puerto Rico
(Christensen, J.D., C.F. Jeffrey, C. Caldow, M.E. Monaco, M.S. Kendall, and R.S. Appeldoorn. 2003. Gulf & Caribbean Research) - Multiscale data used to analyze the spatial distribution of French grunts relative to hard and soft bottom in a benthic landscape
(Kendall, M.S., J.D. Christensen, and Z Hillis-Starr. 2003. Environmental Biology of Fishes) - Designing effective marine protected areas in Seaflower bioshpere reserve, Colombia, based on biological and sociological information
(Friedlander, A., J. Sladek Knowlis, J.A. Sanchez, R.S. Appeldoorn, P. Usseglio, C. McCormick, S. Bejarano, and A. Mitchell-Chui. 2003. Conservation Biology)