Download or read book Baseline Assessment of Fish and Coral Bays St John U S Virgin Islands in Support of Watershed Restoration Activities written by Charles William Menza and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Baseline Assessment of Coral and Fish Bays St John USVI in Support of ARRA Watershed Restoration Activities written by David R. Whitall and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report provides a baseline environmental assessment of Coral Bay and Fish Bay in St. John, USVI in support of watershed restoration activities on the island. This project was funded by the Caribbean Coral Reef Institute (CCRI), NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR), the National Park Service Natural Resource Preservation Program at Virgin Islands National Park, and NPS's South Florida/Caribbean Inventory and Monitoring Program. The historical data synthesized for this work was collected as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring (CREM) project; a partnership effort between NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, NOAA Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), US Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources - Division of Fish and Wildlife, US Geological Survey, National Park Service (NPS), the University of the Virgin Islands, and the University of Hawaii"--About this document.
Download or read book Seascape Ecology written by Simon J. Pittman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seascape Ecology provides a comprehensive look at the state-of-the-science in the application of landscape ecology to the seas and provides guidance for future research priorities. The first book devoted exclusively to this rapidly emerging and increasingly important discipline, it is comprised of contributions from researchers at the forefront of seascape ecology working around the world. It presents the principles, concepts, methodology, and techniques informing seascape ecology and reports on the latest developments in the application of the approach to marine ecology and management. A growing number of marine scientists, geographers, and marine managers are asking questions about the marine environment that are best addressed with a landscape ecology perspective. Seascape Ecology represents the first serious effort to fill the gap in the literature on the subject. Key topics and features of interest include: The origins and history of seascape ecology and various approaches to spatial patterning in the sea The links between seascape patterns and ecological processes, with special attention paid to the roles played by seagrasses and salt marshes and animal movements through seascapes Human influences on seascape ecology—includes models for assessing human-seascape interactions A special epilogue in which three eminent scientists who have been instrumental in shaping the course of landscape ecology offer their insights and perspectives Seascape Ecology is a must-read for researchers and professionals in an array of disciplines, including marine biology, environmental science, geosciences, marine and coastal management, and environmental protection. It is also an excellent supplementary text for university courses in those fields.
Download or read book Benthic Habitats of Fish Bay Coral Bay and the St Thomas East End Reserve written by Bryan Costa and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report describes the development and assessment of shallow (0 ≤40 m) benthic habitat maps for Fish Bay, Coral Bay and the St. Thomas East End Reserve (STEER) in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The objective of this effort, conducted by NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science in partnership with the Nature Conservancy (TNC), the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) and the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR), was to provide spatially-explicit information describing the benthic habitat types and live coral cover present in these three locations. This habitat information will support the development of local action strategies for coral reef conservation in each of these places, providing roadmaps to address key issues and remedy specific threats to coral reefs. The three habitat maps, generated using a combination of semi-automated classification and visual interpretation techniques, represent the first digital maps that describe nearly 100% of the seafloor in these areas. This effort also marks the first time that high resolution imagery describing seafloor depth was collected in these locations"--About this document.
Download or read book Movements of Reef Fish Across the Boundary of the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument in Coral Bay St John USVI written by Matthew S. Kendall and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument (VICRNM) was created to expand the protection of the marine ecosystems around St. John. Monument boundaries were not designed using ecological criteria, but were instead the result of historical land ownership and the Territorial Submerged Lands Act of 1974. This study used acoustic telemetry to investigate movements of reef fish relative to the boundary of the Coral Bay portion of the Monument and the protection that this Marine Protected Area (MPA) could offer. In this approach, acoustic transmitters are implanted into fish and their movements are logged on battery-powered acoustic-receivers (n=38) positioned within, outside, and along the boundary of the Monument. Specifically, we quantify residence time of reef fish within VICRNM, the frequency of movements across the VICRNM boundary, and locations of concentrated fish activity. The National Park Service (NPS) manages the entire reef fish community within the Monument. Therefore, we set fish traps in various habitats throughout VICRNM to capture a diversity of species for tagging. Uniquely coded transmitters with a ~376 day battery life were implanted into 75 fish between August and December 2013. Minimum fish size was ~20 cm to accommodate tags. The fish tagged were from 17 species in 7 families with snappers (n = 38 fish) and grunts (n = 24) being the most common. Receivers were downloaded March 2015. Data were summarized to convey basic information about fish movements including: the timespan of detections, number of detections, percent of days detected, number of receivers visited, number and frequency of VICRNM boundary crossing events, proportion of detections inside versus outside VICRNM, and location of day versus night detections"--Executive Summary. [doi:10.7289/V5/TM-NOS-NCCOS-216 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-NOS-NCCOS-216)]
Download or read book Coral Bay Watershed Management Plan written by Center for Watershed Protection and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report presents a frame work for managing the Coral Bay Watershed, St. John, USVI based on a pilot watershed planning study conducted primarily by the Center for Watershed Protection (CWP) and the USVI Department of Planning and Natural Resources Division of Coastal Zone Management (DPNR CZM) under a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Program funding NCNC3000-6-00007. CWP and a number of agency and non-government partners have worked together on this project to identify priority management recommendations and implementation strategy for the Coral Bay Watershed based on a review of existing studies, input from stakeholder meetings, and observations from on-the-ground assessments"--Introduction.
Download or read book Sedimentation and Reef Development in Hawksnest Fish and Reef Bays St John U S Virgin Islands written by Dennis K. Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Generic Essential Fish Habitat Amendment to Spiny Lobster Queen Conch Reef Fish and Coral Fishery Management Plans for the U S Caribbean written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fish Bay Management Plan for Fish Bay Watershed St John United States Virgin Islands Department of Planning Natural Resources 2001 written by Paul Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fish Bay watershed has many features that make it a special place. It is still relatively unpolluted, it has concerned citizen groups that wish to improve its environment and quality-of-life, and there is general widespread awareness of the environmental problems facing the watershed. These features make this an excellent watershed in which to develop the Territory's model for watershed protection. The vision driving this management plan is threefold: 1) to reduce the current levels of erosion, sedimentation and other types of nonpoint source pollution caused by prior development, 2) to improve the quality of life for current residents while allowing continued smart growth and development and 3) to preserve the watershed's environment and resources for future generations"--Introduction.
Download or read book Historic Land Use in the Reef Bay Fish Bay and Hawksnest Bay Watersheds St John U S Virgin Islands 1718 1950 written by George F. Tyson (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reef and Inshore Fishery Research and Reef Fish Ecology St John Virgin Islands written by John E. Randall and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biological Bases for Reef Fishery Management written by Gene R. Huntsman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a workshop on reef fishery management held October 7-10, 1980 at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of the United States.
Download or read book Temporal Trends in Reef Fish Assemblages Inside Virgin Islands National Park and Around St John U S Virgin Islands 1988 2006 written by Alan Marc Friedlander and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report is a result of long-term fish monitoring studies supported by the National Park Service (NPS) at the Virgin Islands National Park since 1988 and is now a joint NPS and NOAA collaboration. Reef fish monitoring data collected from 1988 to 2006 within Virgin Islands National Park (VINP) and adjacent reefs around St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) were analyzed to provide information on the status of reef fishes during the monitoring period. Monitoring projects were initiated by the National Park Service (NPS) in the 1980s to provide useful data for evaluation of resources and for development of a long-term monitoring program"--Executive Summary.
Download or read book TRI News written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coral Bay Sediment Deposition and Reef Assessment Study written by Barry Devine and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study has investigated the sediment deposition history of Coral Bay, St. John, USVI, and the surrounding waters where sediment is being deposited, the rate of sedimentation and when the sediment deposition rate increase began."--P. 7.
Download or read book St Johns River Inclusion in the National Estuary Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organic Composition of Sediment in Two Bays with Fringing Coral Reefs in St John U S Virgin Islands written by Trish Volle Narwold and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
