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Projects

The Biogeography Team evolved from a Living Marine Resource mapping program that began in NOAA in 1978. The initial focus of mapping species distributions in coastal waters has evolved into characterizing coastal species distributions, their habitats and the coupling of species and their habitats.

Below are a listing projects and their status: ongoing or completed. Please contact Mark Monaco (Mark.Monaco@noaa.gov or 301-713-3028. ext 160) if you have questions or would like to discuss these projects.

CURRENT PROJECTS

CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS

Pacific Benthic Habitat Mapping in Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and CNMI

National Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Grant Program and Support To US Coral Reef Task Force

2004 Coral Reef Ecosystem Status Report

US Caribbean Reef Fish Ecology Studies

Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies (CRES) - US Caribbean Component

Reef Fish Ecology in the Florida Keys

Caribbean Benthic Habitat Mapping Technology Transfer Training

Pacific Benthic Habitat Mapping Technology Transfer Training

Benthic Habitat Mapping of Florida Coral Reef Ecosystems

Benthic Habitat Mapping of Palau and Development of Mapping Plan for the Freely Associated States

IKONOS Accuracy Assessment & comparative Scale Analysis of Caribbean Map data

MARINE PROTECTED AREA STUDIES

Implementation of Five Year Plan of Biogeography in all National Marine Sanctuaries (currently in year two of plan) via NCCOS/NMSP Process

Defining the Biogeography of the Central and Northern California National Marine Sanctuaries: Phase II

Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary Habitat Mapping and Fish Habitat Utilization

Defining the Biogeography of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary to Support Boundary Alternative Assessments

Development of Plan to Conduct Biogeographic Assessment of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Stellwagon Bank NMS data Biogeographic Assessment

Comparison of Reef Fish Habitat Utilization Patterns Within and Outside Hawaii Marine Protected Areas

Characterization of NPS National Coral Reef Ecosystem Monuments in St. Croix and St. John, USVI – R/V Nancy Foster Mission

Ecological Characterization of the NPS Salt River Bay National Historic Park and Ecological Preserve

COASTAL & MARINE ASSESSMENTS

Impacts of Reduced Freshwater Inflow into Mobile Bay, Alabama

Biogeographic Assessments of Sea Turtle Distribution in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic to Minimize By Catch of Turtles

Development of Reef Fish Monitoring Protocols to Support National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program

COMPLETED PROJECTS

A Biogeographic Assessment off North/Central California, In Support of Revisions to Sanctuary Management Plans for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Phase I

Benthic Habitat Mapping in US Coral Reef Areas: Caribbean - SW Puerto Rico

Update of ELMR (estuarine living marine resources) data sets for species in U.S. Mid- and North Atlantic estuaries

Developing technologies to classify, map and assess the conditions and changes in coral reef habitat areas using aerial photography (ESDIM)

Habitat suitability modeling for shrimp distributions and in Galveston Bay, Texas

Estimating effects of changing freshwater allocation on oysters and their and habitats in Apalachicola Bay

Casco Bay HSI

Pensacola HSM

ECNASAP

FL ELMR

Habitat Suitability Modeling Application (ArcView/Spatial Analyst)

Habitat Digitizing extension (ArcView/Spatial Analyst)

Analysis of effects of sand borrowing for beach renourishment on species habitat off Delaware coast

 

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