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OAS accession Detail for 0279443
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0279443 | archive
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| Title: |
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Images Collected from climate stations across the Mariana Archipelago from 2022-04-12 to 2022-08-06 (NCEI Accession 0279443) |
| Abstract: |
The data described here are photoquadrat benthic habitat imagery (photographs) collected at fixed sites established by the Ocean and Climate Change team of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD)--formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division--as part of the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). The photo-quadrat surveys were conducted from April 12 to August 6th according to protocols established by ESD and NCRMP during the ESD-led NCRMP mission to the Mariana Archipelago in 2022. A select number of climate stations were established at select islands in the Marianas in a stratified random fashion and were roughly equally spaced around each island along the 15-m depth contour on hard-bottom habitat and at least 1 km away from a river mouth or embayment. At the NCRMP climate station a 15-m transect was run from the reference stake. Along the 15-m transect tape, two images were taken per meter, for a total of 30 images per climate station. Sites were surveyed using photoquadrats to collect benthic imagery to ultimately produce estimates of relative abundance (benthic cover), frequency of occurrence, benthic community taxonomic composition and relative generic richness. The benthic cover dataset derived from the imagery is described and archived separately in NCEI Accession 0279414. |
| Date received: |
20230626 |
| Start date: |
20220412 |
| End date: |
20220806 |
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| West boundary: |
144.6259167 |
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145.8166 |
| North boundary: |
20.545128 |
| South boundary: |
13.240901 |
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| Submitter: |
Luers, Lori |
| Submitting institution: |
US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center |
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| Supplementary information: |
Submission Package ID: 9DYJ61 |
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| Metadata version: |
4 |
| Keydate: |
2023-06-27 17:15:22+00 |
| Editdate: |
2023-10-06 17:42:01+00 |