Coral Reef Surveys at 21 Sites in American Samoa during 2002 (NODC Accession 0000622)

Dr. Charles Birkeland U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Center University of Hawaii at Manoa Unpublished material Coral Reef Surveys at 21 Sites in American Samoa during 2002 (NODC Accession 0000622) http://www.nodc.noaa.gov Transects of the coral colonies at 21 sites in American Samoa were surveyed by Dr. Charles Birkeland during an underwater swim in March 2002. Data for each coral species include abundance and size distribution of the colonies. The living coral cover can be estimated from the size distribution data. To check the status of the coral reef communities in American Samoa. NOAA Supplemental: Entry_ID: Unknown Sensor_Name: SCUBA, visual census Source_Name: manual Project_Campaign: Marine Resource Survey of the American Samoa Archipelago Originating_Center: Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Center University of Hawaii at Manoa Storage_Medium: Excel, ASCII Online_size: 2.662 megabytes Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0000622 20020306 0600 20020321 1700 ground condition In Work Irregular -170.78896 -169.44486 -14.161783 -14.366233 None Coastal studies Coral reef monitoring and assessment Coral Coral reef Coral species abundance Size distribution of colonies Numeric Data Sets Numeric Data Sets - oceanographic Numeric Data Sets - benthic Numeric Data Sets - biology CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Documents > Observational Report CoRIS Theme Thesaurus EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs ISO 19115 Topic Category biota 002 oceans 014 None Pacific Ocean American Samoa Fagatele Bay Tutuila Island Ofu Island CoRIS Place Thesaurus OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Manu'a Group > Ofu Island (14S169W0013) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > Ofu Island (14S169W0013) CoRIS Region AmSam None Benthic None NOAA and NODC would appreciate recognition as the resource from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these data. NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center NODC User Services Group Leader Mailing and physical address

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