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Mapping Coastal Elevations and Water Depths Using Unmanned Vehicles ...
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Elevations and depths can be derived from these photographs using Structure from Motion (SfM) software. SfM uses overlapping photographs (collected by ...
Great Star Corals Genetically Similar at Different Depths Across ...
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The great star coral (Montastraea cavernosa) is an important reef-building species with broad depth and geographic distribution, making it an ideal ...
Rolling in the Deep: NOAA Expeditions to Assess and Restore Gulf of ...
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We’re primarily working in depths of 150m to 300m so it’s really really cool to be able to see those dynamic changes in these depths. Kevin: The deep ...
Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean
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The lack of continuous spatial information beyond divable depths (30m) NOAA’s Coral Health and Monitoring Program (NCRMP) has limited the ability of ...
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal ...
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Mesophotic coral ecosystems consist of light-dependent corals and associated communities found at depths ranging from 30 to 150 meters beneath the ...
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science - NCCOS
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Mapping Coastal Elevations and Water Depths Using Unmanned Vehicles (Drones) Coral Monitoring and Assessment. Monitoring coral reef ecosystems ...
Lakebed Mapping in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Lake Huron
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In the image, warmer colors (yellow) highlight shallower water depths, while cooler colors (blue) indicate deeper depths. A multibeam bathymetry image ...
Investigating Mesophotic Coral Reefs in Hawaii
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We found reefs off Maui’s southwestern coast at depths of 30–130 meters (98–426 ft) with large areas of unusually high coral cover, near 100 percent ...
NCCOS Tests Drones to Map Coastline and Nearshore Waters
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The depth soundings collected by the water surface drones will be used to validate the depths derived from the digital aerial photos taken by the ...
Geographic differences in vertical connectivity in the Caribbean coral ...
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The deep reef refugia hypothesis proposes that deep reefs can act as local recruitment sources for shallow reefs following disturbance. To test this ...
Blushing Star Coral from Deeper Reefs May Help Replenish Shallow Reefs ...
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NCCOS-funded researchers investigated blushing star coral populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary at shallow (less than 30 meters) ...
Extending Seafloor Mapping Products to Include Habitats Greater Than 20 ...
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We are providing improved seafloor mapping data products for regions of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary deeper than 20 meters. Along with ...
2014 Nancy Foster Mission: ROVing the Depths of the Caribbean Sea
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ROVing the Depths of the Caribbean Sea by Leslie Marie Henderson, Guest Blogger from the University of the Virgin Islands. When I say, “I am a ...
Ecology, Integrity and Status of Caribbean Mesophotic Coral Reefs
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These ecosystems are found most commonly at depths from 30–40 m (98–131 ft) to deeper than 100 m (328 ft) in the Caribbean. The dominant structural ...
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal ...
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This book summarizes what is known about mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) geographically and by major taxa. MCEs are characterized by ...
Guidelines for Bathymetric Mapping and Orthoimage Generation using sUAS ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/guidelines-for-bathymetric-mapping-and-orthoimage-generation-using-suas-and-sfm-an-approach-for-conducting-nearshore-coastal-mapping/
The absence of accurate, contemporary, or detailed bathymetric data in nearshore coastal waters impedes coastal research, conservation, disaster ...
Light Shed on Hawaiian Reef Fish Food Sources and Trophic Positions
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Although the sources of food were different between shallow and mesophotic depths, the trophic position or function of the reef fishes remained ...
Depth Affects Algal Symbiont Composition in Caribbean Coral
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Corals in shallower depths are at a greater risk. For the very abundant coral A. lamarcki, although found in both shallow and mesophotic depths ...
Scientists Peer into Alaska's Ocean Depths to Assess Water Before ...
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In an effort to monitor the condition of Alaska’s offshore resources, scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science are sampling the ...
Compound-specific isotopic analysis of amino acids reveals dietary ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/compound-specific-isotopic-analysis-of-amino-acids-reveals-dietary-changes-in-mesophotic-coral-reef-fish/
Typically spatially removed from such impacts, mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) at intermediate depths (30-150 m) may serve as refugia for these ...