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Materials from the Puerto Rico Seafloor Habitat Characterization Cruise Media Day event are available for download.
- Puerto Rico Cruise Participants
- Mapping a Coral Reef Ecosystem
- Cruise Instructions/Mission Plan
- Media Day Itinerary
- Media Day Itinerary (Spanish)
- Acoustic Seafloor Mapping Poster
- Acoustic Seafloor Mapping Poster (Spanish)
- Slideshow: Acoustic Seafloor Mapping
- Slideshow: Groundtruthing
- Images available for download
- Image of the R/V Nancy Foster
- Nancy Foster Multibeam Current and Previous Areas
- 3-D Bathymetric model of El Hoyo in SW Puerto Rico
- ROV underwater imagery collected in SW Puerto Rico
- Multibeam data collection and ground truthing diagram
- Image of a drop camera transect juxtaposed on seafloor topography
- 2008 Proposed Project Areas - SW Puerto Rico
- Seafloor four-panel image
- Software Tools to Map Coral Ecosystems
- Marine Conservation Area Seafloor Topography at Bajo de Cico, Puerto Rico
**NOTE: Please credit all photos to the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment Biogeography Branch
About the Biogeography Branch
The Biogeography Branch is part of NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science in the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, located in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. The goals of the Biogeography Branch are to develop knowledge and products on the distribution and ecology of living marine resources throughout the nation's estuarine, coastal and marine environments; and provide resource managers, scientists and the public with an improved ecosystem basis for making decisions.
Contact Information
Mark Monaco, Team Lead
1305 East-West Highway, SSMC-4
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-713-3028, ext.160
Tim Battista, Chief Scientist
1305 East-West Highway, SSMC-4
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301.713-3028, ext.171