Dr. Donald C. Potts, UCSC Ms. Daria Siciliano, UCSC Dr. James Maragos, US Fish and Wildlife Service Dr. David Gulko, Hawaii State Div. of Lands and Nat. Resources. Unpublished material database http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/1448 The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (NOWRAMP) began in 2000 with the mission to rapidly evaluate and map the shallow water reef habitats in the NWHI. Utilizing two research vessels Rapture and R/V Townsend Cromwell, researchers spent 30 days at sea visiting each of the ten major islands, atolls and reefs in the remote region of the Hawaiian archipelago. This dataset is a small subset from these cruises. It includes spreadsheet data files on habitats, coral cores, coral species, substrate types, and substrate type percent bottom cover. A descriptive document is also included which was the basis for groundtruthing images from remote sensing. These descriptions give a wide range of information on coral and reef fish species abundance and distribution. Map and evaluate the shallow water reef habitats of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. NOAA Supplemental: :Entry_ID: Unknown: Sensor_Name: SCUBA; Project_Campaign: Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative; Project_Campaign: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Rapid Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program; Originating_Center: UCSC; Storage_Medium: MS Excel, MS Word; Online_size: 949 Kbytes Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0001448 20000920 20021007 ground condition Complete None Planned -178.37817 -161.91921 28.45942 23.0567 None coral coral reef ecosystem coastal benthic habitats coral cores coral species substrate types percent bottom cover groundtruthing reef fish species reef fish abundance CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Geographic Information > Habitats CoRIS Theme Thesaurus EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Coastal Habitat EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Coral Cover EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Rapid Assessment Studies EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Reef Fish Census EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish > Fish Census ISO 19115 Topic Category biota 002 oceans 014 CoRIS Place Thesaurus OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > French Frigate Shoals (24N166W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > French Frigate Shoals (24N166W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Maro Reef (25N170W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Maro Reef (25N170W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Gardner Pinnacles (25N168W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Gardner Pinnacles (25N168W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Midway Atoll (28N177W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Midway Atoll (28N177W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Kure Atoll (28N178W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Kure Atoll (28N178W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Laysan Island (25N171W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Laysan Island (25N171W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Necker Island (23N164W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Necker Island (23N164W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Raita Bank (25N168W0002) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Raita Bank (25N168W0002) None North Pacific Northwestern Hawaiian Islands French Frigate Shoals Maro Reef Lisianski and Neva Shoals Midway Atoll Kure Atoll Laysan Island Necker Island Nihoa Island Pearl and Hermes Atoll Raita Bank Gardner Pinnacles CoRIS Region NWHI 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. Donald Potts University of California Santa Cruz Researcher mailing and physical

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