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Year 2002 status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key micro invertebrates (NCEI Accession 0001976)

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This study demonstrates the important role that long term monitoring programs can play in understanding the natural variability and long term trends in the coral reefs of American Samoa. One benefit of this study is that it provides an overview of the condition of the reefs on all the main volcanic islands simultaneously. It also provides a broad scale perspective for understanding the results of the site dedicated monitoring programs in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Pago Pago Harbour (Aua transect: see below), which provide a much longer term perspective on the reefs of Tutuila (85 and 25 years respectively).

This dataset includes the status report (PDF and MS Word) and raw survey data (MS Excel) made in 1996 and 2002. Survey sites include all islands of American Samoa, although remote atolls of Swains and Rose were not made in 2002. Surveys were also made in the country of Western Samoa.

Dataset Citation

Cite as: Green, Alison; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (2005). Year 2002 status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key micro invertebrates (NCEI Accession 0001976). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0001976. Accessed [date].

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Distributor	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information +1-301-713-3277 NCEI.Info@noaa.gov
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Time Period	1994-10-01 to 2002-12-31
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates	West: -172.9 East: -168.13 South: -14.36 North: -11.03
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Publication Dates	publication: 2005-01-14
Data Presentation Form	Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status	Complete - production of the data has been completed Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency	As needed
Supplemental Information	Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Dr. Alison Green Contact_Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Contact_Position: Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: PO Box 1379 City: Townsville State_or_Province: Queensland Postal_Code: 4810 Country: Australia
Purpose	Provide a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the coral ecosystems in 2002.
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Dataset Citation	Cite as: Green, Alison; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (2005). Year 2002 status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key micro invertebrates (NCEI Accession 0001976). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0001976. Accessed [date].
Cited Authors	Green, Alison The Nature Conservancy; Indo-Pacific Resource Center Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Contributors	Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Resource Providers	Alison Green The Nature Conservancy; Indo-Pacific Resource Center Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Publishers	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Theme keywords	NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS FISH - CORAL REEF MACROINVERTEBRATE CENSUS SUBSTRATUM PERCENT COVER NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS visual estimate WMO_CategoryCode oceanography Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES Originator Keywords Coastal studies coral reef fish species list mean adult biomass of each of the 12 most abundant fish families mean adult density of each of the 12 most abundant fish families mean adult species richness of each of the 12 most abundant fish families mean density of crown of thorns starfish mean density of most abundant juvenile fishes mean density of the most abundant species of butterflyfish observations of coral bleaching on the reef slope substratum cover (percent) by category
Data Center keywords	NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Platform keywords	NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS SWIMMER/DIVER ICES/SeaDataNet Ship Codes SWIMMER/DIVER (ICES code: 33DV)
Place keywords	NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS Southwest Pacific Ocean (limit-147 E to 140 W) Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN Originator Place Keywords American Samoa Aunu'u, Aunu'u Ofu, Asaga Ofu, Hurricane House Ofu, Hurricane House, lagoon Ofu, Ofu Village Ofu, Vaoto Lodge, lagoon Olosega, Olosega Village Olosega, Sili Rose Atoll South Pacific Swains Island Ta'u, Afuli Ta'u, Faga Ta'u, Fagamalo Ta'u, Lepula Tutuila, Amanave Tutuila, Aoa Tutuila, Aua Tutuila, Faga'alu Tutuila, Fagafue Tutuila, Fagaitua Tutuila, Fagamalo Tutuila, Fagasa Tutuila, Fagatele Tutuila, Fatumafuti Tutuila, Leloaloa Tutuila, Leone Tutuila, Masefau Tutuila, Nu'uuli Tutuila, Onesosopo Tutuila, Utulei Tutuila, Vatia Upolu, Ewa Upolu, Fagaloa Upolu, Faleasi'u Upolu, Lefaga Upolu, Poutari Upolu, Sa'anapu Upolu, Vaitele Western Samoa
Project keywords	Originator Project Names American Samoa Coral Ecosystem Assessment
Keywords	NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 0001976

Use Constraints	Cite as: Green, Alison; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (2005). Year 2002 status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key micro invertebrates (NCEI Accession 0001976). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0001976. Accessed [date].
Access Constraints	Use liability: NOAA and NCEI cannot provide any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of these data. The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.
Fees	In most cases, electronic downloads of the data are free. However, fees may apply for custom orders, data certifications, copies of analog materials, and data distribution on physical media.

Lineage information for: dataset
Processing Steps	2005-01-14T13:30:08Z - NCEI Accession 0001976 v1.1 was published.
Output Datasets	NCEI Accession 0001976 v1.1 NCEI Accession 0001976 v1.1 (download) published 2005-01-14T13:30:08Z

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Processing Steps	2024-02-19T16:17:09Z - NCEI accession 0001973 was superseded by this accession. Rationale: NCEI accession 0001973 has been superseded by this accession. Please use and refer to this accession instead of NCEI accession 0001973.

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Processing Steps	2015-04-22T00:00:00 - NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015.

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Processing Steps

2015-04-22T00:00:00 - NOAA created the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by merging NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), including the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), per the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. NCEI launched publicly on April 22, 2015.

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Platform	SWIMMER/DIVER

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Year 2002 status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key micro invertebrates (NCEI Accession 0001976)

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