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OAS accession Detail for 0001329
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| Title: | Benthic Surveys for Ground Truthing of Coastal Benthic Mapping in the Main Eight Hawaiian Islands 2001 - 2002 (NODC Accession 0001329) |
| Abstract: | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Ocean Service (NOS) initiated a coral reef research program in 1999 to map, assess, inventory, and monitor U.S. coral reef ecosystems. These activities were implemented in response to requirements outlined in the Mapping Implementation Plan developed by the Mapping and Information Synthesis Working Group (MISWG) of the Coral Reef Task Force (CRTF). As part of the MISWG of the CRTF, NOS's Biogeography Team has been charged with the development and implementation of a plan to produce comprehensive digital coral-reef ecosystem maps for all U.S. States, Territories, and Commonwealths within five to seven years. Joint activities between Federal agencies are particularly important to map, research, monitor, manage, and restore coral reef ecosystems. In response to the Executive Order 13089, NOS is conducting research to digitally map biotic resources and coordinate a long-term monitoring program that can detect and predict change in U.S. coral reefs, and their associated habitats and biological communities. Most U.S. coral reef resources have not been digitally mapped at a scale or resolution sufficient for assessment, monitoring, and/or research to support resource management. Thus, a large portion of NOS' coral reef research activities have focused on mapping of U.S. coral reef ecosystems. The map products will provide the fundamental spatial organizing framework to implement and integrate research programs and provide the capability to effectively communicate information and results to coral reef ecosystem managers. Although the NOS coral program is relatively young, it has had tremendous success in advancing towards the goal to protect, conserve, and enhance the health of U.S. coral reef ecosystems. One objective of the program was to create benthic habitat maps to support coral reef research to enable development of products that support management needs and questions. Therefore this product was developed in collaboration with many Hawaiian partners, including Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources, a leading coral reef management agency. An initial step in producing benthic habitat maps is the development of a habitat classification scheme. This dataset focuses on the in situ data used to ground truth the mapping efforts on the main Hawaiian Islands: Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau. |
| Date received: | 20040127 |
| Start date: | 20010101 |
| End date: | 20021231 |
| Seanames: | Coastal Waters of Hawaii, Northeast Pacific Ocean (limit-180) |
| West boundary: | -160.25 |
| East boundary: | -154.81 |
| North boundary: | 22.22 |
| South boundary: | 18.91 |
| Observation types: | benthic, survey - coral reef |
| Instrument types: | GPS |
| Datatypes: | BENTHIC SPECIES, HABITAT - BENTHIC, REEF AND/OR BOTTOM REGIME - PERCENT COVER |
| Submitter: | Battista, Timothy A. |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service |
| Contributing projects: | CORAL REEF STUDIES, CoRIS |
| Platforms: | SWIMMER/DIVER (33DV) |
| Number of observations: | 8 |
| Supplementary information: | Contributor: NOAA National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Biogeography Program. |
| Availability date: | 20040127 |
| Metadata version: | 3 |
| Keydate: | 2004-02-04 19:09:57+00 |
| Editdate: | 2016-11-18 13:48:12+00 |