The data in this file come from a survey of adult residents in USVI. The survey was conducted for a random stratified sample of households on the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix from February 20 to April 28, 2025. These data are the second round of data collection assessing USVI residents’ socioeconomic characteristics, human use patterns, and knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of coral reefs and coral reef management. These data are also used to compare changes in USVI residents’ socioeconomic characteristics since the first round of monitoring that occurred in 2017 in USVI. Data were collected through a face to face interview method or the option to complete an online form, and the total sample size for completed surveys was 624 respondents. Survey weights were created to adjust for the sample design and non-response, and then calibrated using 2020 US Census data so that the weighted dataset is representative of USVI’s resident population.

This is the full set of Southeast Florida Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (SECREMP) raw data. This includes in situ surveys of benthic substrate coverage, stony coral abundance and condition, octocoral abundance and condition, Xestospongia muta abundance and condition, and hourly temperature records from each SECREMP site. Abstracts are provided for each dataset individually.

This is the full set of Southeast Florida Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (SECREMP) raw data. This includes in situ surveys of benthic substrate coverage, stony coral abundance and condition, octocoral abundance and condition, Xestospongia muta abundance and condition, and hourly temperature records from each SECREMP site. Abstracts are provided for each dataset individually.

Data provided in this collection were gathered around American Samoa as part of the ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) by the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Coral Reef Ecosystem Program in the Pacific. The data described here result from benthic coral demographic surveys for two life stages (juveniles, adults) across American Samoa. A two-stage stratified random sampling (StRS) design was employed to survey the coral reef ecosystems around American Samoa. Sampling effort was allocated based on strata area, and sites were randomly located within strata. The StRS design effectively reduces estimate variance through stratification using environmental covariates and by sampling more sites rather than sampling more transects at a site. Therefore, site-level estimates and site to site comparisons should be used with caution. Sites were surveyed using belt transects to collect juvenile and adult coral colony metrics. These data provide information on juvenile and adult coral abundance (density, proportion occurrence, and total colony abundance), size distribution, partial mortality, prevalence and abundance of recent mortality and cause, prevalence of disease and bleaching, and diversity.