Groundtruthing Notes and Miscellaneous Biological Datasets from Coral Ecosystems Surveys from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Rapid Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program of 2000-2002 (NODC Accession 0001448)
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.
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Tags
- coral reef ecosystem
- coral cover
- coral cores
- laysan island
- united states of america
- raita bank
- reef monitoring and assessment
- aquatic habitat
- corals
- benthic habitat
- benthic
- percent bottom cover
- biosphere
- coastal habitat
- oceans
- lisianski and neva shoals
- reef fish species
- kure atoll
- hawaii
- habitats
- fish
- nihoa island
- coastal
- midway atoll
- earth science
- maro reef (25n170w0001)
- french frigate shoals (24n166w0001)
- nwhi
- coral species
- necker island (23n164w0001)
- pearl and hermes atoll
- reef fish census
- marine biology
- benthic habitats
- reef fish abundance
- honolulu
- central pacific ocean
- raita bank (25n168w0002)
- necker island
- french frigate shoals
- kure atoll (28n178w0001)
- maro reef
- coral reef ecology
- ocean basin
- coral
- coastal processes
- laysan island (25n171w0001)
- northwestern hawaiian islands
- zoology
- coral reefs
- gardner pinnacles (25n168w0001)
- north pacific
- fish census
- coris_metadata
- pacific ocean
- rapid assessment studies
- geographic information
- country/territory
- midway atoll (28n177w0001)
- groundtruthing
- gardner pinnacles
- substrate types