Description
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) sponsored a marine biological survey at Wake Atoll, located approximately 2,100 miles west of Honolulu at 19 deg 18 min North Latitude and 166 deg 35 min East Longitude. On behalf of the SMDC, biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) were invited to Wake Atoll in June 1998. The purpose of the visit was to conduct baseline marine biological surveys in the vicinity of the Peacock Point outfall pipe and to examine the sites of other point-source discharges to the marine environment (i.e., power plant, desalinization plant, and stormwater outlets). The biologists were asked to (1) generally characterize the coral-reef habitats within the vicinity of the outfall, (2) document the primary species of reef fishes, corals, other macroinvertebrates, and algae that exist in those habitats, and (3) investigate whether the reef communities at the other sites appeared to have been impacted by the discharges.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource |
Tags
- algae
- aquatic habitat
- baseline studies
- benthos analysis
- biodiversity
- biology
- biosphere
- census
- central pacific ocean
- coastal development
- coastal processes
- contaminants
- coral cover
- coral mortality
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- fish
- fish census
- habitats
- hard coral cover
- hydrosphere
- in situ biological
- macroinvertebrates
- marine biology
- marine invertebrates
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- pollution
- population density
- pria
- reef damage assessment
- reef fish census
- reef habitat
- reef monitoring and assessment
- species diversity
- united states of america
- usa minor outlying islands
- vegetation
- wake atoll
- wake atoll (19n167e0001)
- water quality
- zoology