This dataset contains coral colony level damage assessment data collected during both stratified random transect surveys and opportunistically selected roving diver surveys from February 28 and May 7, 2018 in order to assess the impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Puerto Rico's shallow water (< 7m) coral reefs. A total of 147 transect surveys and 143 roving surveys were completed across 153 sites in hard bottom habitats surrounding mainland Puerto Rico and the islands of Vieques and Culebra, including the Arrecifes de la Cordillera Nature Reserve. In addition, this dataset includes site level triage data collected from September 16, 2017 to July 02, 2018. All data presented here are in text or shapefile format.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Coral. The data include parameters of instrumental with a geographic location of Caribbean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean. The time period coverage is from -67 to -67 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archive package contains long-term calcification data from coral cores extracted from La Parguera Reef in Puerto Rico as part of the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program’s (CRCP’s) National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). Corals annually form bands within their skeletons that manifest as high-density lines perpendicular to their growth axes. By precisely measuring the spacing and density of these bands, scientists can obtain a record of linear extension and skeletal density, respectively. Linear extension and skeletal density are, in turn, used to calculate annual calcification. Cores are collected by diver, underwater, using a pneumatic drill rig. Once removed, the small (~5 cm diameter) lesions are plugged with epoxy, and the resulting cores are analyzed using computed tomography (CT). Coral core data included herein were collected at long-term monitoring sites by the Acidification Calcification and Coral Reef Ecosystems Team (ACCRETE), based at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML).

The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of OAR is conducting research on the influence of meteorological and oceanographic factors upon coral bleaching, and other biogeochemical processes occurring on coral reefs. Instrument arrays to measure the various environmental influences are being deployed at key coral reef areas to gain long-term temporally intensive data coverage, to provide near real-time information products, and to surface-truth NOAA satellite sea surface temperature (SST) products used for coral bleaching predictions ("HotSpot" products). OAR has developed expert system software plus the instrument array (together called an Integrated Coral Observing Network, or ICON, station) to screen data in near real-time to test for appropriate data ranges for each of the instruments, and to issue "alerts" as to conditions thought to be conducive to coral bleaching, and other modeled events. At each ICON station, local collaborators also provide feedback on the presence and progress of coral bleaching and thus validate coral bleaching predictions made by satellite HotSpots and ICON information products.

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.

The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of OAR is conducting research on the influence of meteorological and oceanographic factors upon coral bleaching, and other biogeochemical processes occurring on coral reefs. Instrument arrays to measure the various environmental influences are being deployed at key coral reef areas to gain long-term temporally intensive data coverage, to provide near real-time information products, and to surface-truth NOAA satellite sea surface temperature (SST) products used for coral bleaching predictions ("HotSpot" products). OAR has developed expert system software plus the instrument array (together called an Integrated Coral Observing Network, or ICON, station) to screen data in near real-time to test for appropriate data ranges for each of the instruments, and to issue "alerts" as to conditions thought to be conducive to coral bleaching, and other modeled events. At each ICON station, local collaborators also provide feedback on the presence and progress of coral bleaching and thus validate coral bleaching predictions made by satellite HotSpots and ICON information products.