Variation in Coral Thermotolerance Across a Pollution Gradient Erodes as Coral Symbionts Shift to More Heat-Tolerant Genera
Phenotypic plasticity is one mechanism whereby species may cope with stressful environmental changes associated with climate change. Reef building corals present a good model for studying phenotypic plasticity because they have experienced rapid climate-d...
Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the American Samoa Archipelago
This American Samoa Archipelago Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP) was developed by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and represents the first step in an incremental and collaborative approach to implement ecosystem approaches to fishery m...
Different resiliencies in coral communities over ecological and geological time scales in American Samoa
In 1917, Alfred Mayor surveyed a 270 m transect on a reef flat on American Samoa. Eleven surveys were conducted on the transect from 1917 to 2019. The coral community on the reef crest was resilient over the century, occasionally being seriously damaged b...
Meteorologic, oceanographic, and geomorphic controls on circulation and residence time in a coral reef-lined embayment: Faga’alu Bay, American Samoa
Water circulation over coral reefs can determine the degree to which reef organisms are exposed to the overlying waters, so understanding circulation is necessary to interpret spatial patterns in coral health. Because coral reefs often have high geomorphi...
Reduced thermal tolerance of massive coral species in a highly variable environment
Coral bleaching events are increasing in frequency and severity, resulting in widespread losses in coral cover. However, branching corals native to highly variable (HV) thermal environments can have higher bleaching resistance than corals from more modera...
Coral reef community recovery trajectories vary by depth following a moderate heat stress event at Swains Island, American Samoa
The 2014–2017 global coral bleaching event caused mass coral mortality and reshaped benthic communities across the Pacific. Swains Island (11.0° S, 171.1° W), a remote and uninhabited island within American Samoa, was exposed to moderate heat stress (6 °C...
Catchment to sea connection: Impacts of terrestrial run-off on benthic ecosystems in American Samoa
Variation in water quality can directly affect the composition of benthic assemblages on coral reefs. Yet, few studies have directly quantified nutrient and suspended particulate matter (SPM) to examine their potential impacts on benthic community structu...
Use of sucralose and caffeine as tracers of human waste in a coral reef ecosystem
Over the past ten years, divers have noted a decrease in healthy coral cover and an increase in benthic algae in Vatia Bay, on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. The cause for this is unknown, but one hypothesis is that nutrient pollution from the loc...
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Socioeconomic Monitoring Component : Summary Findings for American Samoa, 2021
This report presents primary data collected from the second socioeconomic monitoring cycle in American Samoa (the first monitoring cycle was completed in 2014). The survey was conducted in person with household residents from May to September 2021. Result...
Special issue on invasive alien species and protected areas : invasive alien species and biodiversity conservation : the anomaly.
This special issue of the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) newsletter is devoted to the impact of invasive species on protected areas and implications for biodiversity conservation. Includes case studies of many types of protected areas world...
Economic valuation of coral reefs and adjacent habitats in American Samoa [electronic resource] : final report / Jacobs in association with MRAG Americas, Inc. ; National Institution of Water & Atmospheric Research, NZ ; N. Polunin ; prepared by James Spurgeon ... [et al.].
Workshop report and development of 5-year plan for coral reef management in American Samoa (2000-2004) / by the American Samoa Coral Reef Advisory Group ; prepared by Peter Craig ... [et al.].
The United States Territory of American Samoa [electronic resource] : three-year local action strategies 2004-2007 / prepared by the Governor's Coral Reef Advisory Group.
"The local action strategies contained in this document are the result of a nearly two-year process that saw input from territorial agencies, non-profit groups, interested individuals, sectoral groups (such as fishers), and federal agency partners. The sc...
Memorandum, date 7/11/12, to Kathy Chaston, Steve Frano, and Fatima Sauafea-Leau (NOAA), Faamao Asalele, Christianera Tuitele, Kuka Matavao,and Brian Rippy (AS-EPA), and Trent Biggs (SDSU), from Horsley Witten Group, Inc. (HW) and the Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. (CWP), Re, preliminary assessment of Faga'alu watershed plan and territorial stormwater capacity.
"The purpose of this initial assessment is to provide HW and CWP with some background on the existing watershed efforts and Territorial stormwater requirements, as well as to generate a list of specific issues to investigate while on island the week of Ju...
Memorandum, date 8/30/12, to Kathy Chaston, Steve Frano, and Fatima Sauafea-Leau (NOAA), Faamao Asalele, Christianera Tuitele, Kuka Matavao (AS-EPA), Marvis Vaiaga'e (AS DOC), Uso Lago'o (Faga'alu), and George Poysky (Samoa Maritime), from Horsley Witten Group, Inc. (HW) and the Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. (CWP), Re, corrective action plan for the Faga'alu Quarry.
"This memorandum describes a proposed Erosion and Sediment Control (ESC) Corrective Action Plan to reduce sediment loading associated with groundwater seeps and stormwater runoff at the Faga'alu quarry site. The Faga'alu quarry is located at the upper ter...
Fagaloa coastal uses map book : American Samoa 2012 / NOAA, ASDOC, DMWR, ASEPA.
"This map book contains cartographic products derived from the American Samoa Coastal Use Mapping project conducted in Pago Pago, American Samoa in July 2012. Data was obtained through a participatory GIS workshop designed to gather spatial data on human ...
Resolution 18.3 : recognition and support for the United States All Islands Coral Reef Committee Strategic Plan and Charter (2008-13) / [U.S. Coral Reef Task Force].
"The U.S. All Islands Coral Reef Committee (AIC) represents the Governors and Executive branches of the states, commonweatlhs, terrirtories and the Freely Associated States (FAS) possessing coral reefs and related natural resources, and is made up of mari...
Expanding monitoring and modeling of land-based sources of pollution to priority coral reefs in American Samoa
"The project titled, Expanding monitoring and modeling of land-based sources of pollution to priority coral reefs in American Samoa was granted funding by the FY13 NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. The application for funding was made via American Sam...
Geologic setting and ecological functioning of coral reefs in American Samoa
"American Samoa is rich in coral reefs and all islands are more or less fringed by coral reefs. Although structurally not part of the Samoan chain, political American Samoa includes Rose Atoll, a true atoll, and Swains Island. The coral reefs of American ...
This report details the coral reef ecosystem assessments and monitoring surveys conducted in waters surrounding Tutuila, Ofu, Olosega, Ta'u, Swains Islands, and Rose Atoll in February and March 2008 as part of the Hi'ialakai Cruise 08-02.
"The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) produced this 2011 lunar calendar based on the traditional knowledge and language of Samoans in the American Samoa Archipelago. Each year since 2007, WPRFMC has partnered with communities t...
Variation in Coral Thermotolerance Across a Pollution Gradient Erodes as Coral Symbionts Shift to More Heat-Tolerant Genera
"The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) produced this 2011 lunar calendar based on the traditional knowledge and language of Samoans in the American Samoa Archipelago. Each year since 2007, WPRFMC has partnered with communities t...