The University of Puerto Rico research cruise, April 25-May 10, sponsored by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, used high-resolution bathymetric mapping to further detail the distribution of MCEs ...

NCCOS and OCRM's Coral Reef Conservation Program successfully concluded a series of unique community outreach activities in Puerto Rico called 'ReefSmart' - A Coral Reef Ecosystem Education Initiative. The 2012 ...

A 12-foot hammerhead shark, an undersea canyon that suddenly plunges 900 feet and an enormous orange-and-brown barrel sponge are only a few things in an unexplored Puerto Rican reef that ...

During the week of February 27, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) researchers met with U.S. Coral Reef Task Force stakeholders to provide the status of NCCOS' collaborative research ...

Staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, along a transect in St. John USVI, July 2011. Quadrat in photograph is 1m x 1m, divided into 10cm2 squares Collaborating with local partners, scientists from ...

This baseline assessment of Jobos Bay and surrounding marine ecosystems consists of a two part series. The first report (Zitello et al., 2008) described the characteristics of the Bay and ...

In order to assess whether U.S. Department of Agriculture best management practices in Puerto Rico benefit water quality around coral reefs, NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Science has completed the ...

Reef Pulse Hawaii activities being used at Wai'alae Elementary, Hawaii (photo courtesy of Risa Minato, HCRI) Instilling an understanding and appreciation of Hawaii's islands and nearshore waters in the next ...

Predicting the loss and fragmentation of suitable habitat for an important coral reef herbivore, the princess parrotfish, under future scenarios of coral reef structural collapse. This work is in progress ...

Investigating mesophotic coral ecosystems in the waters surrounding the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) is the purpose of a National Centers for Coastal Ocean ...