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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A visual survey method specifically designed for REEF volunteer data. During RDT surveys, divers swim freely throughout a dive site and record every observed fish species that can be positively identified. The search for fishes begins as soon as the diver enters the water. The goal is to find as many species as possible so divers are encouraged to look under ledges and up in the water column. At the conclusion of each survey, each recorded species is assigned one of four abundance categories based on about how many were seen throughout the dive (single (1); few (2-10), many (11-100), and abundant (>100)).
Industry:Natural environment
A volunteer, community-based monitoring protocol designed to measure the health of coral reefs on a global scale. Reef Check is active in over 60 countries and territories throughout the tropics.
Industry:Natural environment
A warm, swift, ocean current that flows northward between Cuba and the Yucatán peninsula, moves into the Gulf of Mexico, loops clockwise in the eastern Gulf before exiting east into the Atlantic Ocean through the Florida Straits. It is part of the western boundary current system of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre and may extend to great depths. An eddy, or Loop Current ring, separates from the Loop Current and may drift slowly westward into the central and western Gulf of Mexico.
Industry:Natural environment
Refers to organisms that grow and reproduce at extremely low temperatures, typically below 10 degrees C.
Industry:Natural environment
A website address, such as: www.coris.noaa.gov.
Industry:Natural environment
A world leader in GIS (geographic information system) software and technology.
Industry:Natural environment
A worldwide monitoring program that investigates and documents the status of seagrass resources and the threats to this important and imperiled marine ecosystem. The program started in 2001 in the Western Pacific and now includes 110 sites in 30 countries with a global monitoring protocol and web-based data reporting system.
Industry:Natural environment
Accumulated thermal stress that coral reefs experience over a typical 12-week period.
Industry:Natural environment
Acrobat Reader is a software product from Adobe, designed to view.pdf (portable document format) documents downloaded from the World Wide Web.
Industry:Natural environment
Agnathans are the most primitive and ancient of the vertebrates. As the name "Agnatha" implies, they lack jaws. Paired fins are also generally absent, and the the adult retains the notochord. The skeleton is cartilaginous. The agnathans include the lampreys and hagfishes.
Industry:Natural environment
