The Biogeography Program is in NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science,
and is part of the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA),
located in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
The goal of the Biogeography Program is to develop knowledge
and products on living marine resource distributions and ecology throughout
the Nation's estuarine, coastal and marine environments, and to provide
managers and scientists with an improved ecosystem basis for making decisions.
Activities of the Biogeography Program focus on developing
products, applications and processes for defining and interpreting the
relationships of species distributions and their environments. Most of
our project are done in cooperation with other groups. Current or major
project topics of the Biogeography Program include:
- Ecological assessment and data dessimination
- Coral reef ecosystem monitoring
- Benthic habitat mapping of coral reef ecosystem
- Reef fish ecology studies
- Species' habitat suitability modeling using geographic information systems
- Designing and evaluating efficacy of Marine Protected Areas
For more information on NOAA's Biogeography Program or products, please
contact Dr. Mark Monaco at Mark.Monaco@noaa.gov or 301-713-3028, ext.
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