Description
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (NOWRAMP) began in 2000 with the mission to rapidly evaluate and map the shallow water reef habitats in the NWHI. Utilizing two research vessels Rapture and R/V Townsend Cromwell, researchers spent 30 days at sea visiting each of the ten major islands, atolls and reefs in the remote region of the Hawaiian archipelago. This dataset is a small subset from these cruises. It includes spreadsheet data files on habitats, coral cores, coral species, substrate types, and substrate type percent bottom cover. A descriptive document is also included which was the basis for groundtruthing images from remote sensing. These descriptions give a wide range of information on coral and reef fish species abundance and distribution.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource |
Tags
- aquatic habitat
- benthic
- benthic habitat
- benthic habitats
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- coastal
- coastal habitat
- coastal processes
- coral
- coral cores
- coral cover
- coral reef ecology
- coral reef ecosystem
- coral reefs
- corals
- coral species
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- fish
- fish census
- french frigate shoals
- french frigate shoals (24n166w0001)
- gardner pinnacles
- gardner pinnacles (25n168w0001)
- geographic information
- groundtruthing
- habitats
- hawaii
- honolulu
- kure atoll
- kure atoll (28n178w0001)
- laysan island
- laysan island (25n171w0001)
- lisianski and neva shoals
- marine biology
- maro reef
- maro reef (25n170w0001)
- midway atoll
- midway atoll (28n177w0001)
- necker island
- necker island (23n164w0001)
- nihoa island
- north pacific
- northwestern hawaiian islands
- nwhi
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- pearl and hermes atoll
- percent bottom cover
- raita bank
- raita bank (25n168w0002)
- rapid assessment studies
- reef fish abundance
- reef fish census
- reef fish species
- reef monitoring and assessment
- substrate types
- united states of america
- zoology