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Benthic Habitat Mapping in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for ...
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In Puerto Rico, we mapped 721 km 2 of submerged vegetation, 756 km 2 of coral reef and colonized hardbottom, 49 m 2 of unconsolidated sediment, and 73 ...
NCCOS | Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
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Below are printable maps of benthic habitats for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The maps are divided into three indices: Puerto Rico, St ...
Benthic Habitat Mapping off Southwest Puerto Rico
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The World Resource Institute recently classified over 90 percent of the coral reefs around Puerto Rico as threatened. These coral reefs, along with ...
Shallow-water Benthic Habitat Mapping of Northeast Puerto Rico and ...
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We developed a map of benthic habitat types, including live coral cover present off northeast Puerto Rico and Culebra Island, a region selected by ...
NCCOS | Southwest Puerto Rico - National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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This project began in January 2010 and was completed in December 2012. We mapped the shallow-water benthic habitats of two areas off southwest Puerto ...
[PDF] Methods Used to Map the Benthic Habitats of Puerto Rico and the U.S ...
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aerial photographs for the nearshore waters of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1999. These images were used to create maps of the region’s ...
Conservation Opportunity: Demobilized Bombing Range, Island of Vieques ...
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Coastal development and overfishing degraded many of Puerto Rico’s spectacular marine resources. Although the bombing activities inevitably damaged ...
New Study Shows Elevated Sediment Pollution Levels in Guánica Bay ...
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A new study from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) reports recent sediment samples from Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico contained some ...
Marine Benthic Algae of Puerto Rico Part I Published
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A new taxonomic study, “The Marine Benthic Algal Flora of Puerto Rico Part I” published by the Smithsonian Institution is partly based on NCCOS ...
Coral reef ecosystems of Reserva Natural La Parguera (Puerto Rico ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/coral-reef-ecosystems-of-reserva-natural-la-parguera-puerto-rico-spatial-and-temporal-patterns-in-fish-and-benthic-communities-2001-2007/
The report provides a spatial and temporal characterization of the fish and benthic communities of southwestern Puerto Rico, primarily within the La ...
Digital Atlas for the Northeast Marine Corridor of Puerto Rico Now ...
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At the request of Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER), NCCOS scientists conducted a spatial characterization of the ...
Baseline Assessment of Guanica Bay, Puerto Rico in Support of Watershed ...
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We completed a baseline assessment of the environmental conditions in Guanica Bay, Puerto Rico, to help coastal managers identify the most appropriate ...
Contaminants in Marine Resources of Vieques, Puerto Rico
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Vieques is an island municipality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, located 11 km off the east coast of the main island. In addition to normal ...
Report: A Baseline Assessment of the Ecological Resources of Jobos Bay ...
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Region(s) of Study: Puerto Rico, U.S. States and Territories This baseline assessment of Jobos Bay and surrounding marine ecosystems consists of a two ...
Mapping Ecological Priorities and Human Impacts to Support Land-Sea ...
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This report describes a spatial characterization conducted to support the development of an integrated management plan for Puerto Rico’s Northeast ...
Characterizing Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico: A watershed modeling analysis ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/characterizing-jobos-bay-puerto-rico-a-watershed-modeling-analysis-and-monitoring-plan/
Progress report on partnership between USDA and NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and ...
Characterizing and Monitoring Coral Reef Ecosystems in Puerto Rico and ...
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Since 2000, NCCOS has partnered with the University of Puerto Rico and NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program to monitor the marine resources of La ...
Owner of Puerto Rico Superfund Site Agrees to Contamination Clean Up
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The Ochoa Fertilizer Company site in Guánica, Puerto Rico, consists of two parcels totaling 125 acres adjacent to Guánica Bay. Ammonia, ammonium ...
How do people in Puerto Rico use and perceive coral reef resources ...
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How do people in Puerto Rico use and perceive coral reef resources? NOAA’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program socioeconomic team (including NCCOS ...
Coastal Development Impacts Puerto Rico’s Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems
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The narrowinsular shelf off Ponce, Puerto Rico’s second most populated municipality, makes deep-water dredge disposal for the commercial port and ...