Summer 2004 Coral Bleaching Event on Tutuila, American Samoa (NODC Accession 0001955)
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.
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Tags
- united states of america
- reef monitoring and assessment
- aquatic habitat
- coastal studies
- coral reef
- corals
- coral bleaching
- benthic habitat
- benthic
- biosphere
- coastal habitat
- amsam
- fagatele bay (14s170w0002)
- utelei
- nuu'uli
- american samoa
- numeric data sets
- faga'alu (14s170w0005)
- habitats
- alofau
- visual
- earth science
- coral diseases
- airport lagoon
- bleaching
- alofau (14s170w0054)
- south pacific
- faga'alu
- ocean basin
- fagatele
- tutuila island
- damage assessment
- zoology
- coris_metadata
- pacific ocean
- country/territory
- pago pago harbor