Description
American Samoa's coral reefs have been impacted by a variety of major events, including periodic severe hurricanes, the most recent of which was Hurricane Heta, which was closest on Jan 6, 2004. Other events have included a Crown-of-Thorns seastar outbreak in 1974 and night scuba spearfishing from 1994-2002. Mass coral bleaching occurred in 1994 and then again in the summers of 2002 and 2003, and the bleaching was severe enough to kill some corals. Bi-weekly surveys were made of the reefs at Airport Lagoon. During the peak of the summer bleaching, surveys were made at five other locations. The data given with this data set refer to the percent corals bleached within the survey area.
Resources
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Tags
- airport lagoon
- alofau
- alofau (14s170w0054)
- american samoa
- amsam
- aquatic habitat
- benthic
- benthic habitat
- biosphere
- bleaching
- coastal habitat
- coastal studies
- coral bleaching
- coral diseases
- coral reef
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- damage assessment
- earth science
- faga'alu
- faga'alu (14s170w0005)
- fagatele
- fagatele bay (14s170w0002)
- habitats
- numeric data sets
- nuu'uli
- ocean basin
- pacific ocean
- pago pago harbor
- reef monitoring and assessment
- south pacific
- tutuila island
- united states of america
- utelei
- visual
- zoology