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2020 National Status Report scoring methodology, basin-wide and theme calculations and scoring for the national coral reef status report
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Description:The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coral Reef Conservation Program (NOAA CRCP) invests significant funds to support the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) throughout the U.S. Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico coral reef areas. A key component of this program is periodic, national-level assessment on the status and trends of U.S. coral reef areas. To develop and implement this report framework, NOAA CRCP partnered with the Integration and Application Network (IAN) at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). The framework, termed herein as status report, is based on the timely and transparent assessment of biophysical and human dimension indicators against references that are synthesized into overall condition scores for each coral reef jurisdiction. The primary purpose of the CRCP status report products is to communicate the status and trends of U.S. coral reefs to Congress, NOAA leadership, and the interested public. Nine jurisdiction status reports were released in 2018 and 2020: Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Pacific Remote Islands, Hawaii and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Florida. The purpose of this document is to describe the additional analyses taken to synthesize and summarize the results from the nine individual reports into an overall national status report for all U.S. coral reefs. This is the concluding product in this cycle of collaboration between NOAA CRCP and UMCES IAN.
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CoRIS Project ID:NOAA CRCP project 743
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