AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessment Reef Fish Survey at Swains, American Samoa in 2012

To support a long-term NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) for sustainable management and conservation of coral reef ecosystems, from 20120227 to 20120325, reef fish assessment surveys were conducted, as a part of Rapid Ecological Assessments (REA), during the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HA1201 in the American Samoa region by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC). During the cruise, 38 REA sites were surveyed at Swains in the American Samoa region. At each REA site, fish biologists entered the water and conducted a fine-scale (~700 m^2) and high degree of taxonomic resolution REA survey to assess and monitor species diversity, size distribution, and abundance of fish in shallow-water hard-bottom (less than 30 m) habitats. Reef fish assessment surveys were focused on cataloging the diversity (species richness), abundance (numeric density) and biomass (fish mass per unit area) of diurnally active reef fish assemblages. The stationary point count (SPC) method was used to quantify reef fish species. Two divers lay out a 30 m transect line, and position themselves at the 7.5 and 22.5 meter marks. The SPC biologist then records estimated size and abundance of all fish within a visually estimated 15-m diameter cylinder centered on the stationary diver (7.5-m radius, total area ~ 177m^2 per cylinder). The diver first spends 5 minutes identifying all fish species in the cylindrical area, then proceeds to count and estimate size (total length) for each in a series of "instantaneous" point counts or sweeps of the cylinder. Fish were identified at the species level, wherever possible. All reef-associated fish, including those in the water column, were surveyed. The survey time for each stationary point count survey was approximately 20 min and generally four stationary point count surveys (two per diver) were conducted at each fish REA site. After completing REA surveys, divers noted the presence, at the survey site, of any unusual fish species not counted during SPC counts, in order to facilitate species lists per location.

Tags: 587, american samoa, amsam, biology, biosphere, coastal processes, coral reef, coral reef ecology, coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, earth science, ha1201, marine ecosystem, numeric data sets, ocean basin, oceans, pacific ocean, pacific reef assessment and monitoring program: monitoring coral reef ecosystems of the us pacific i, random swimming, rapid assessment studies, rapid ecological assessments (rea), reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef fish census, reef fishes, reef monitoring and assessment, stationary, stationary point count (spc) survey, swains, swains atoll (11s171w0001), united states of america, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRED Shallow CTD Profiles; Laysan Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument); Cruise: HI0809, Data Date Range: 20080920-20080920 (NODC Accession 0039382).

CRED shallow Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) casts are vertical profiles (max 30 meter depth, downcast only) of temperature, conductivity and pressure. Data are collected at select nearshore locations, both around islands or banks and within lagoons. Data processing was performed using Seabird Instrument's SeaSoft SBE Data Processing Software (http://www.seabird.com/software/SBEDataProcforWindows.htm). Data format is discreet, tabular (formatted, space delimited ASCII) files for each profile, with a full header as provided by SeaSoft. Raw file extension is HEX, processed file extension is CNV. The header contains latitude, longitude and other location information, as well as all data processing steps and settings. All dates and times are UTC. All positions are WGS84 decimal degrees. Contact Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), NOAA Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center for more information. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/coral-reefs-pacific

Tags: 1221, attenuation/transmission, bacteria, biosphere, bleaching, central pacific ocean, chlorophyll, chlorophylls, coastal processes, conductivity, conductivity temperature depth (ctd) profile, coral diseases, coral reef ecosystem division (cred), coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, density, dissolved gases, dissolved oxygen sensor, downwelling, earth science, hawaii, hi0809, honolulu, in situ biological, in situ chemical, in situ physical, inorganic matter, laysan island, laysan island (25n171w0001), microbiota, noaa pacific islands fisheries science center, northwestern hawaiian islands, northwestern hawaiian islands (papahanaumokuakea marine national monument), numeric data sets, nwhi, ocean basin, ocean chemistry, ocean circulation, ocean mixed layer, ocean optics, ocean pressure, ocean temperature, oceanographic, oceanography, oceans, organic matter, oxygen, pacific ocean, pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci, particulate matter, phytoplankton, pigments, plankton, profile, reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef monitoring and assessment, salinity, salinity/density, sea level pressure, thermocline, transmissometer, turbidity, united states of america, upwelling, water temperature, zoology, zooplankton
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRED REA Line Point Intercept Surveys of Benthic Parameter Assessments at Ta'u Island, American Samoa in 2010

To support a long-term NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) for sustainable management and conservation of coral reef ecosystems, from 12-13, 20 March 2010, line point intercept (LPI) surveys of benthic parameter assessments were conducted, as a part of Rapid Ecological Assessments (REA), during the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HI1001 in American Samoa at biennial intervals by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC). During the cruise, 9 REA sites were surveyed at Ta'u Island in American Samoa. Benthic biologists from NOAA's Coral Reef Ecosystem Division conducted Line Point Intercept surveys to quantitatively document the benthic cover at pre-determined long-term monitoring REA sites. Two linear 25M transects were surveyed with a 5M inter-transect region between the end of Transect 1 and the start of Transect 2. The LPI diver determines the benthic composition at 20cm intervals for a total of 125 data points per transect. All living benthic elements (e.g., coral, algae, and other invertebrates) were identified to the lowest taxonomic level possible, often substituting functional group categories for turf algae and crustose coralline algae when identification in the field was extremely difficult. In cases where the substrate is bare or covered with turf algae, the substrate composition is also noted as either sand, rock, rubble, carbonate pavement, or dead coral. These data allow for the assessment and monitoring of species composition and abundance and provide the basis for computing quantitative estimates of percent cover at higher taxonomic levels like functional group (live Coral, macroalgae, turf algae) or on a finer taxonomic resolution such as genus level.

Tags: 1221, american samoa, amsam, benthic cover, biology, biosphere, coastal processes, coral reef ecology, coral reef ecosystem, coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, earth science, hi1001, manu'a group, marine ecosystem, numeric data sets, ocean basin, oceans, pacific ocean, pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci, rapid assessment studies, rapid ecological assessments (rea), reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef monitoring and assessment, south pacific, ta'u island, ta'u island (14s169w0012), united states of america, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
2006 EM300 and EM3002D Multibeam Sonar Data from Cruise Hi'ialakai HI-06-10 - Main Hawaiian Islands

EM300 and EM3002D multibeam Data were collected from July 31 - August 19 2006 aboard NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai at Hawaii Island, Maui Island, Niihau Island, Lanai Island in the Main Hawaiian Islands, during cruise HI-06-10. These multibeam data were collected using SAIC ISS-2000 software in the Generic Sensor Format and processed using SABER editing software. Surface sound velocity values were supplied by a Seabird SBE-45 MicroTSG and a SBE-38 remote temperature probe. Sound velocity corrections from a Seabird 911 CTD sensor and motion corrections from a POS-MV vertical reference were applied to the data in real time. Predicted tides were applied to the data in real time. Horizontal accuracy is 20 m (differential GPS correctors applied), vertical accuracy is depth dependent (~1% of water depth), WGS84 datum. These data are not to be used for navigation. Depths mapped ange from ~20 to 3000 m.

Tags: 1217, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, benthic habitat mapping and characterization - northwestern and main hawaiian islands, central pacific ocean, coris_metadata, country/territory, earth science, geographic information, hawaii, hawaii island, hawaii island (19n155w0003), hawaiian islands, islands, kauai, lanai island, lanai island (20n156w0002), maui, maui island, maui island (20n156w0004), mhi, multibeam sonar, niihau island, niihau island (21n160w0001), ocean basin, oceans, pacific ocean, united states of america
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRED Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS) Standard Buoy, Environmental Data Logger (EDL); NWHI, LIS; Long: -173.91608, Lat: 25.96767 (WGS84); Sensor Depth: 0.00m; Data Range: 20010920-20020612.

CREWS Standard (CREWS-STD) buoys are equipped to measure sea surface water temperature and conductivity (Sea-Bird Model SBE37-SM, Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc., www.seabird.com) at 1 m (nominal) below the water line and air temperature (R.M Young Model 41342); barometric pressure (Heise DXD and wind vectors (Vaisala WAS425A) at 2 m (nominal) above the water line. A compass (KVH C100 SE-25) is used in the calculation of wind direction and a GPS system provides geolocation. CREWS-STD buoys telemeter hourly data in near-real-time (NRT). Data telemetry serves to alert researchers to the potential of imminent or ongoing coral reef bleaching or other natural events (hurricanes, storm damage, cooling, etc.) so that additional field observations and data collection efforts can be initiated, if warranted. NRT data is available at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/coral-reefs-pacific and is updated on a daily basis. When a buoy is recovered, a higher resolution (typically a 1800 second sampling interval) dataset is uploaded from the buoy's Environmental Data Logger (EDL). Please contact CRED with any questions. For program information see the web site https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/coral-reefs-pacific

Tags: 1219, air temperature, atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, atmospheric temperature, atmospheric winds, biosphere, bleaching, central pacific ocean, coastal processes, coral diseases, coral reef early warning system (crews) standard buoy, coral reef ecosystem division (cred), coral reef ecosystems integrated observing system (creios), coral reef watch-physical and biological monitoring of u.s. pacific islands, coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, crews (coral reef early warning system), earth science, environmental data logger (edl), hawaii, honolulu, in situ meteorological, in situ physical, instrumented buoy, lis_ocean_001, lisianski island, lisianski island (25n173w0001), moored, mooring, noaa pacific islands fisheries science center, northwestern hawaiian islands, northwestern hawaiian islands (papahanaumokuakea marine national monument), numeric data sets, nwhi, ocean basin, oceanographic, oceanography, oceans, pacific ocean, reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef monitoring and assessment, sea level pressure, surface pressure, surface winds, united states of america, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRED Shallow CTD Profiles; Wake Atoll, Pacific Remote Island Areas; Cruise: HI0701, Data Date Range: 20070429-20070501 (NODC Accession 0039382).

CRED shallow Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) casts are vertical profiles (max 30 meter depth, downcast only) of temperature, conductivity and pressure. Data are collected at select nearshore locations, both around islands or banks and within lagoons. Data processing was performed using Seabird Instrument's SeaSoft SBE Data Processing Software (http://www.seabird.com/software/SBEDataProcforWindows.htm). Data format is discreet, tabular (formatted, space delimited ASCII) files for each profile, with a full header as provided by SeaSoft. Raw file extension is HEX, processed file extension is CNV. The header contains latitude, longitude and other location information, as well as all data processing steps and settings. All dates and times are UTC. All positions are WGS84 decimal degrees. Contact Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), NOAA Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center for more information. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/coral-reefs-pacific

Tags: attenuation/transmission, bacteria, biosphere, bleaching, central pacific ocean, chlorophyll, chlorophylls, coastal processes, conductivity, conductivity temperature depth (ctd) profile, coral diseases, coral reef ecosystem division (cred), coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, density, downwelling, earth science, hi0701, in situ biological, in situ chemical, in situ physical, inorganic matter, microbiota, noaa pacific islands fisheries science center, numeric data sets, ocean basin, ocean chemistry, ocean circulation, ocean mixed layer, ocean optics, ocean pressure, ocean temperature, oceanographic, oceanography, oceans, organic matter, pacific ocean, pacific remote island areas, particulate matter, phytoplankton, pigments, plankton, pria, profile, reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef monitoring and assessment, salinity, salinity/density, sea level pressure, thermocline, transmissometer, turbidity, united states of america, upwelling, usa minor outlying islands, wake atoll, wake atoll (19n167e0001), water temperature, zoology, zooplankton
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRED REA Fish Team Stationary Point Count Surveys at Tutuila, American Samoa, 2006

Stationary Point Counts at 4 stations at each survey site were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments (REA) conducted at 22 sites around Tutuila in the American Samoa (AS) during "February 9 - March 10, 2006" in the NOAA Hi'ialakai (HI0602) Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise. Raw survey data included species level abundance estimates.

Tags: 1221, american samoa, amsam, biology, biosphere, coastal processes, coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, earth science, fish, hi0602, marine biology, marine ecosystem, numeric data sets, ocean basin, oceans, pacific ocean, pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci, rapid assessment studies, rapid ecoligical assessments (rea), reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef fish census, reef fishes, reef monitoring and assessment, stationary, stationary point count (spc) surveys, tutuila island (14s170w0016), united states of america, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRED REA Benthic Parameter Assessment at Ta'u Island, American Samoa in 2008

Point-count surveys at 50-cm intervals were conducted along 2 consecutively placed, 25m line transect lines, as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 9 sites around Ta'u Island in American Samoa from 28 February to 05 March 2008 aboard the NOAA ship Hi'ialakai during the Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HI0802. Raw survey data consisted of counts of benthic elements, including but not limited to live coral, dead coral, carbonate pavement, sand, coral rubble, fleshy macroalgae, crustose coralline algae, turfalgae, as well as other sessile invertebrates along the two transects. All live benthic elements were identified to the lowest taxonomic level possible. These data provide the basis for computing quantitative estimates of percent live coral cover, as well as percent cover of the different benthic constituents.

Tags: 1221, american samoa, american samoa (14s170w0000), amsam, benthic cover, biology, biosphere, coastal processes, coral reef ecology, coral reef ecosystem, coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, earth science, hi0802, manu'a group, marine ecosystem, numeric data sets, ocean basin, oceans, pacific ocean, pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci, rapid assessment studies, rapid ecological assessments (rea), reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef monitoring and assessment, south pacific, ta'u island, ta'u island (14s169w0012), united states of america, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRED Rapid Ecological Assessment Reef Fish Survey at Kingman, Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2010

To support a long-term NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) for sustainable management and conservation of coral reef ecosystems, from 2010-01-21 to 2010-04-24, reef fish assessment surveys were conducted, as a part of Rapid Ecological Assessments (REA), during the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HA1001 in the Pacific Remote Island Areas region by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC). During the cruise, 33 REA sites were surveyed at Kingman in the Pacific Remote Island Areas region. At each REA site, fish biologists entered the water and conducted a fine-scale (~700 m^2) and high degree of taxonomic resolution REA survey to assess and monitor species diversity, size distribution, and abundance of fish in shallow-water hard-bottom (less than 30 m) habitats. Reef fish assessment surveys were focused on cataloging the diversity (species richness), abundance (numeric density) and biomass (fish mass per unit area) of diurnally active reef fish assemblages. The stationary point count (SPC) method was used to quantify reef fish species. Two divers lay out a 30 m transect line, and position themselves at the 7.5 and 22.5 meter marks. The SPC biologist then records estimated size and abundance of all fish within a visually estimated 15-m diameter cylinder centered on the stationary diver (7.5-m radius, total area ~ 177m^2 per cylinder). The diver first spends 5 minutes identifying all fish species in the cylindrical area, then proceeds to count and estimate size (total length) for each in a series of "instantaneous" point counts or sweeps of the cylinder. Fish were identified at the species level, wherever possible. All reef-associated fish, including those in the water column, were surveyed. The survey time for each stationary point count survey was approximately 20 min and generally four stationary point count surveys (two per diver) were conducted at each fish REA site. After completing REA surveys, divers noted the presence, at the survey site, of any unusual fish species not counted during SPC counts, in order to facilitate species lists per location.

Tags: 1221, biology, biosphere, central pacific ocean, coastal processes, coral reef, coral reef ecology, coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, earth science, ha1001, kingman, kingman reef (06n162w0001), line islands, marine ecosystem, numeric data sets, ocean basin, oceans, pacific ocean, pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci, pacific remote island areas, pria, random swimming, rapid assessment studies, rapid ecological assessments (rea), reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef fish census, reef fishes, reef monitoring and assessment, stationary, stationary point count (spc) survey, united states of america, usa minor outlying islands, zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRED REA Fish Team Belt Transect Survey at Zealandia Bank, Marianas Archipelago, 2005

Belt transects along 3 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 2 sites at Zealandia Bank in the Marianas Archipelago (MA) during 3 September - 1 October 2005 in the NOAA Oscar Elton Sette (OES 0511) Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise. Raw survey data included species level abundance estimates.

Tags: 1221, belt transect, belt transect (blt) survey, biology, biosphere, cnmi, coastal processes, coral reefs, corals, coris_metadata, country/territory, earth science, fish, mariana islands, marine biology, marine ecosystem, northern mariana islands, numeric data sets, ocean basin, oceans, oes0511, pacific ocean, pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the u.s. paci, rapid assessment studies, rapid ecological assessments (rea), reef assessment and monitoring program (ramp), reef fish census, reef fishes, reef monitoring and assessment, western pacific ocean, zealandia bank (16n145e0005), zoology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
ICON - Salt River Bay 2010 Meteorological and Oceanographic Observations

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 a Coral Reef Early Warning System, 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.

Tags: 1101, air temperature, atlantic ocean, atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, atmospheric temperature, atmospheric winds, c-man, c065 - integrated coral observing network (icon) project, caribbean sea, conductivity, coral, coral reef, coral reef watch - crews component, coral reef watch - crews component (new name: integrated coral observing network), coris_metadata, country/territory, earth science, icon, integrated coral observing network (icon) project, meteorology, numeric data sets, ocean basin, ocean optics, ocean temperature, oceans, photosynthetically active radiation, physical oceanography, reef, remote sensing, salinity, salinity/density, salt river bay, salt river bay (17n064w0022), sea level pressure, sea surface temperature, st. croix, surface winds, u. s. virgin islands, ultraviolet radiation, united states of america, us virgin islands, usvi, virgin islands
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce