Description
The data described here result from near-shore shallow water Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) casts conducted at select sites across the Mariana Archipelago as part of the ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). These surveys were conducted by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD; formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) during ESD-led NCRMP missions to the PRIA from 2014 to 2023. The CTD casts provide vertical profiles (30-m max depth, downcast only) of water column conductivity, temperature, pressure, with calculated depth, salinity, and water density.
The CTD (Sea-Bird Electronics, SBE19-plus in 2014-2018, RBR Concerto in 2023) was deployed from a small boat using a hand line and held just under the surface for 1 minute to cycle water through the instrument and tubing. Afterward, data were collected by lowering the CTD in profiling mode at an even pace (descent rate ~0.5 to 0.75 meters per second) to a maximum depth of 30 m. Data processing was performed using Sea-Bird Scientific SBE or RBR Ruskin Data Processing Software and the R package "oce".
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2016_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Jarvis) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during the return transit of the 2016 American Samoa reef fish cruise (SE1602). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2016_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Jarvis) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during the return transit from the 2016 American Samoa reef fish cruise (SE1602). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2016_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Jarvis) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during the return transit of the 2016 American Samoa reef fish cruise (SE1602). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2016_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Jarvis) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during the return transit from the 2016 American Samoa reef fish cruise (SE1602). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2016_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Jarvis) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during the return transit of the 2016 American Samoa reef fish cruise (SE1602). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2016_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Jarvis) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during the return transit from the 2016 American Samoa reef fish cruise (SE1602). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2015_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Jarvis, Kingman, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2015 (HA1501). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2015_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Jarvis, Kingman, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2015 (HA1501). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2015_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Jarvis, Kingman, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2015 (HA1501). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2015_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Jarvis, Kingman, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2015 (HA1501). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2015_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Jarvis, Kingman, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2015 (HA1501). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2015_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Jarvis, Kingman, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2015 (HA1501). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2014_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2014_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2014_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2014_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2014_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2014_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2014 (HA1401). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2017_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Jarvis, and Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2017_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Jarvis, and Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2017_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Jarvis, and Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2017_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Jarvis, and Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2017_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Jarvis, and Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2017_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Jarvis, and Wake) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during MARAMP 2017 (HA1701). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2018_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Kingman and Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2018 (HA1801). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2018_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Kingman and Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2018 (HA1801). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2018_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Kingman and Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2018 (HA1801). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2018_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Kingman and Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2018 (HA1801). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2018_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Kingman and Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2018 (HA1801). | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2018_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Kingman and Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during ASRAMP 2018 (HA1801). Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2023_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division in 2023. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2023_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division in 2023. Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2023_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division in 2023. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2023_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division in 2023. Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2023_PRIA.csv | Unknown | Shallow CTD profiles collected across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division in 2023. Data include conductivity, temperature, pressure, depth, salinity, and density. | Open resource |
| ESD_NCRMP_CTD_2023_PRIA_QC.pdf | Unknown | Quality control report generated for CTD data from deployments from sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs; Howland, Baker, Palmyra) by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division in 2023. | Open resource |
| GCMD Keyword Forum Page | Unknown | Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords | Open resource |
| GCMD Keyword Forum Page | Unknown | Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords | Open resource |
| GCMD Keyword Forum Page | Unknown | Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords | Open resource |
| NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) | Unknown | Information about the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP). | Open resource |
| NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) | Unknown | Information about the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP). | Open resource |
| NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) | Unknown | Information about the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP). | Open resource |
| NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program | Unknown | Information about the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) on the NOAA Coral Reef Information System website. | Open resource |
| NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program | Unknown | Information about the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) on the NOAA Coral Reef Information System website. | Open resource |
| NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program | Unknown | Information about the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) on the NOAA Coral Reef Information System website. | Open resource |
| Full Metadata Record | Unknown | View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. | Open resource |
| Full Metadata Record | Unknown | View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. | Open resource |
| Full Metadata Record | Unknown | View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. | Open resource |
| NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) | NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. | Open resource | |
| NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) | NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. | Open resource | |
| NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) | NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. | Open resource | |
| Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Website | Unknown | Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage | Open resource |
| Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Website | Unknown | Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage | Open resource |
| Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Website | Unknown | Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage | Open resource |
| Ecosystem Sciences Division | Unknown | PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division web page | Open resource |
| Ecosystem Sciences Division | Unknown | PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division web page | Open resource |
| Ecosystem Sciences Division | Unknown | PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division web page | Open resource |
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- 743
- aquatic habitat
- baker island
- baker island (00n176w0001)
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- climate change
- coastal processes
- conductivity
- conductivity profiles
- coral reef
- coral reef conservation program
- coral reef ecosystem division
- coral reef ecosystem program
- coral reefs
- coral reef studies
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- crep
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- depth
- depth - sensor
- doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc
- doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/esd
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- ecosystem sciences division
- equatorial pacific ocean
- esd
- hi'ialakai
- howland island
- howland island (00s176w0001)
- in situ
- in situ physical
- jarvis island
- jarvis island (00s160w0001)
- johnston atoll
- johnston atoll (16n169w0001)
- kingman reef
- kingman reef (06n162w0001)
- line islands
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- national coral reef monitoring program
- national marine fisheries service
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- office of oceanic and atmospheric research
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- wake atoll (19n167e0001)
- wake island
- water temperature
- zoology