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Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP)
This collection provides access to documents from the Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) describing research conducted or sponsored by NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, mainly in U.S. states, territories and remote areas of the Pacific Ocean. It includes data reports, technical memorandums, technical reports, training manuals, and other documents that cover coral reef management and stewardship, coral reef monitoring, and outreach and education projects and activities.
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  • Evaluation of past coastal construction project monitoring in southeast Florida and recommendations to improve future monitoring
    Personal Author:
    Moulding, Alison; Carrubba, Lisamarie;
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.). Nova Southeastern University, Oceanographic Center,.
    Published:
    2011
    Description:
    "This project evaluated coastal construction monitoring of projects occurring primarily within the past ten years in the four county southeast Florida region for their ability to detect impact. Based on this evaluation, recommendations were developed...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 712.13 KB]
  • Designing marine protected area networks to achieve fisheries, biodiversity, and climate change objectives in tropical ecosystems : a practitioner guide
    Personal Author:
    Green, Alison; White, Alan T.; Kilarski, Stacey; Fernandes, Leanne; Tanzer, John; Aliño, Porfirio M.; Jompa, Jamaluddin; Lokani, Paul; Soemodinoto, Arisetiarso; Knight, Maurice; Pomeroy, R. S. (Robert S.); Possingham, Hugh P. (Hugh Philip); Pressey, Robert L;
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security. United States, Agency for International Development.
    Published:
    2013
    Description:
    "Overfishing, degradation and loss of key habitats due to local and global threats are undermining food security, livelihoods and long term sustainability of tropical marine ecosystems. If well designed, marine protected areas (MPAs) can reduce local...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 4.61 MB]
  • Lionfish response management plan, U.S. Virgin Islands : update February 2014
    Personal Author:
    Kilgo, Jamie M.; Castillo, Bernard, II; Travis, Jenn; Edwards, Kitty; Gustafson, Norm; Brown, Jeanne B., 1974-; Rubattino, John; Packauslkas, Nadija; Hillis-Starr, Zandy;
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.). Nature Conservancy (U.S.).
    Published:
    2014
    Description:
    "This updated territorial Lionfish Response Management Plan addresses the potential ecological and economic threat posed by invasive lionfish with specific strategies for education and outreach, removal, research and monitoring, marketing, and commun...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 2.44 MB]
  • Final report on reef resilience and climate change a workshop for coral reef managers, St. Thomas, USVI, May 10-14, 2010
    Personal Author:
    Parker, Britt-Anne A.
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
    Published:
    2010
    Description:
    "The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) Reef Resilience and Climate Change: A workshop for Coral Reef Managers, held May 10-14, 2010 at the Frenchman's Reef and Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort on St. Thomas in the USVI, was the eighth in a series...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 230.59 KB]
  • A multi-scale assessment of the benthic communities of Bermuda's shallow water platform focusing on existing MPA's & control sites to enhance local management practices
    Personal Author:
    Murdoch, Thaddeus J. T.; Hammond, Matthew P.; Glasspool, Anne F.; Outerbridge, Mark.; Clee, Judie.; Shailer, Mandy.; Colella, Michael.; Alicea, Eileen.;
    Published:
    2008
    Description:
    "In this report we describe the assessment of benthic ecological data collected across the reef platform as a first step, in order to determine areas of special ecological character that would benefit from additional protection under legislation. We ...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 5.24 MB]
  • NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program roadmap for the future a plan for developing CRCP direction through 2015
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
    Published:
    2008
    Description:
    "This document is a roadmap for the future direction of the CRCP. This roadmap builds upon the foundations established in the National Action Plan to Conserve Coral Reefs (2000), the National Coral Reef Action Strategy (2002), and the NOAA Coral Reef...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 461.51 KB]
  • Socioeconomic conditions along the world's tropical coasts, 2008
    Personal Author:
    Loper, Christen Eileen; Pomeroy, R. S. (Robert S.); Hoon, Vineeta; McConney, Patrick; Pena, Maria; Sanders, Arie; Sriskanthan, Gaya; Vergara, Sheila; Pido, Michael D.; Vave, Ron; Vieux, Caroline; Wanyonyi, Innocent;
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
    Published:
    2008
    Description:
    "This report synthesizes data from individual socioeconomic assessments to quantify and qualify regional and global dependence on coral reef resources, perceptions of resource conditions, threats to marine and coastal resources, and support for marin...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.90 MB]
  • The fishery effects of marine reserves and fishery closures
    Personal Author:
    Gell, Fiona Rachel.; Roberts, Callum.;
    Corporate Author:
    World Wildlife Fund (U.S.)
    Published:
    2003
    Description:
    Describes and evaluates the use of marine reserves as a fishery management tool, and concludes that efficacy of this strategy is evidenced by increases in affected fish stocks, increases in affected fishes' biomass, increased catches in areas close t...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.26 MB]
  • Application of the WCPA-Marine/WWF Guidebook on evaluating effective management in MPAs. Mafia Island a demonstration case
    Personal Author:
    Rubens, Jason; Kazimoto, Sylvester;
    Corporate Author:
    United States, National Ocean Service. IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. World Wide Fund for Nature. David & Lucile Packard Foundation.
    Published:
    2003
    Description:
    Presents to MPA managers and practitioners a case study of Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania to demonstrate how to apply the book, "How is your MPA doing? A guidebook of natural and social indicators for evaluating marine protected area management e...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.33 MB]
  • Assessment of population and community structure of sessile macro invertebrates following a benthic mortality event in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
    Personal Author:
    Colella, Michael; Richardson, Bill.; Ruzicka, Rob.; Johnson, Dustin.; Bertin, Matt.; Callahan, Michael.; Wheaton, Jennifer L.; Schmitt, Samantha.; Sheridan, Nancy.; Bruckner, Andrew W.;
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.). Florida, Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission..
    Published:
    2008
    Description:
    "A benthic habitat monitoring project was conducted from April 2007 to March 2008 to determine the status and trends of important ecological constituents following a major red tide event in 2005 off Pinellas and Sarasota counties, Florida. Photograph...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 2.57 MB]
  • NOAA ARRA USVI Watershed Stabilization Project. Coral Bay Watershed Management Project : Hansen Bay drainage improvements
    Personal Author:
    Reed, Patricia
    Corporate Author:
    United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,. Virgin Islands Resource Conservation & Development Council. Coral Bay Community Council.
    Published:
    2012
    Description:
    "The Hansen Bay Watershed contains two residential subdivisions that share an entrance road at the end of Route 10. Stormwater runoff has been carrying sediment from unpaved sections of this road into Hansen Bay, threatening coral reef habitat (Photo...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 8.32 MB]
  • Suspected spawning-associated colouration and behaviour in black grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci)
    Personal Author:
    Koch, V.; Prada, M.; Penaloza, G.; Taylor, E.; Kellison, G. Todd (Gregory Todd), 1969-;
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
    Published:
    2010
    Description:
    "A probable spawning-associated aggregation of black grouper Mycteroperca bonaci was observed on the leeward side of the Old Providence atoll, Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, Colombia. Courtship behaviours previously reported for other grouper species, ...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 89.61 KB]
  • Results of the Territorial Monitoring Program of American Samoa for 2009, benthic section, including information on the tsunami effects
    Personal Author:
    Fenner, Douglas
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.). American Samoa, Coral Reef Advisory Group,.
    Published:
    2011
    Description:
    Because of the Sept. 29, 2009 tsunami and a variety of other delays, only 7 sites were monitored in 2009. Coral cover, which had risen slightly in 2008, remained at that level, with 28.6% cover in 2009. Coralline algae continues to dominate the reefs...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 2.33 MB]
  • Environmental assessment M/V Wellwood grounding site restoration, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Monroe County, Florida
    Corporate Author:
    United States, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management., Marine Sanctuaries Division.
    Published:
    2002
    Description:
    "This Environmental Assessment has been prepared to systematically evaluate the short- and long-term environmental and socioeconomic effects related to the restoration of the grounding site of the motor vessel (M/V) Wellwood. The vessel ran aground o...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.52 MB]
  • Evaluation of regulatory guidelines to minimize impacts to seagrasses from single-family residential dock structures in Florida and Puerto Rico
    Personal Author:
    Shafer, Deborah J.; Karazsia, Jocelyn.; Carrubba, Lisamarie.; Martin, Craig.;
    Corporate Author:
    United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.. United States, Army., Corps of Engineers.. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.).
    Published:
    2008
    Series:
    ERDC/EL TR ; 08-41
    Description:
    Deborah J. Shafer, Jocelyn Karazsia, Lisamarie Carrubba, and Craig Martin ; prepared for Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. : NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, Avoidance and Minimizatio...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.37 MB]
  • Developing surface water GPS digital mapping technology to map the spatial distribution of size classes and disease prevalence of Elkhorn coral in the nearshore waters of St. Thomas and St. Croix
    Personal Author:
    Devine, Barry.; Drew, Mark.; Ischida, Kim.; Patterson, Shona.; Brown, Jeanne B., 1974-; Mason, Lucy.; Colletti, Christina.; Bruckner, Andrew W.;
    Corporate Author:
    Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
    Published:
    2007
    Description:
    "Much has been written about the species population status of the now ESA Listed Elkhorn (Acropora palmata) and Staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) corals throughout their range and the decline the two species have