Douglas Fenner Unpublished material http://www.nodc.noaa.gov American Samoa's coral reefs have been impacted by a variety of major events, including periodic severe hurricanes, the most recent of which was Hurricane Heta, which was closest on Jan 6, 2004. Other events have included a Crown-of-Thorns seastar outbreak in 1974 and night scuba spearfishing from 1994-2002. Mass coral bleaching occurred in 1994 and then again in the summers of 2002 and 2003, and the bleaching was severe enough to kill some corals. Bi-weekly surveys were made of the reefs at Airport Lagoon. During the peak of the summer bleaching, surveys were made at five other locations. The data given with this data set refer to the percent corals bleached within the survey area. To understand the annual cycle and status in 2004 of coral bleaching at Airport Lagoon, American Samoa. NOAA Supplemental:Entry_ID: Unknown Sensor_Name: SCUBA Source_Name: manual Project_Campaign: coral bleaching Originating_Center: Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Storage_Medium: MS Word and Excel Online_size: 100 kbytes Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0001955 20031210 20041205 ground condition Complete None Planned -170.8500 -170.5500 -14.2500 -14.3833 None Coastal studies coral reef coral bleaching CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Numeric Data Sets > Habitats CoRIS Theme Thesaurus EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Coastal Habitat EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Coral Diseases > Bleaching EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Damage Assessment > Visual ISO 19115 Topic Category biota 002 oceans 014 CoRIS Place Thesaurus OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Tutuila Island > Alofau (14S170W0054) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Tutuila Island > Alofau (14S170W0054) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Pago Pago Harbor > Faga'alu (14S170W0005) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Tutuila Island > Faga'alu (14S170W0005) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Tutuila Island > Fagatele Bay (14S170W0002) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Tutuila Island > Fagatele Bay (14S170W0002) None South Pacific American Samoa Tutuila Island Nuu'uli Alofau Airport Lagoon Faga'alu Utelei Fagatele 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. Douglas Fenner Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Chief Biologist mailing

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Pago Pago American Samoa 96799 USA 684 633 4456 douglasfenner@yahoo.com Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa MS Word and Excel see lineage, process step none P. Craig C. Birkeland S. Belliveau 2001 Coral Reefs 20: 185-189 paper 2001 publication date Craig and others, 2001 temperature study T. J. Goreau R. L. Hayes 1994 Report to Coral Reef Intiative, U.S. Dept of State. 118 pp, 54 figures. paper 1994 publication date Goreau and Hayes, 1994 coral reef bleaching study A. Green 2002 Report to Dept. Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa. 86 pp. paper 2002 publication date Green, 2002 coral reef status study The percentage of bleached colonies was estimated visually and mentally following a roughly one-hour swim in the lagoon along roughly the same path. The swimming rate was steady and moderate for a SCUBA diver wearing fins. This method results in course resolution. Accuracy subjectly estimated at 10-20%. Craig, P., Birkeland C, Belliveau S. 2001. High temperatures tolerated by a diverse assemblage of shallow-water corals in American Samoa. Coral Reefs 20: 185-189. Goreau, T. J., and Hayes, R. L. 1994. A survey of coral reef bleaching in the south central Pacific during 1994. Report to Coral Reef Intiative, U.S. Dept of State. 118 pp, 54 figures. Green, A. 2002. Status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites (benthic communities, fish communities, and key macroinvertebrates). Report to Dept. Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa. 86 pp. Unknown Douglas Fenner Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Chief Biologist mailing

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