The Biogeography Branch has a wide variety of products - publications, databases, software tools, videos,
and thousands of maps, aerial images, data files, and species and habitat photos. Most products are digital and accessible via the links below, and some are available in hard copy, or as CD/DVDs upon request.
If you cannot find a product, please contact Chris.Caldow@noaa.gov.
Publications & Reports
Most of our publications are digital, and available through the following links:
- The List of Biogeography Branch Publications and Related Products links to most of our publications.
- The NCCOS Publications Database links to most of our publications. Search the NCCOS catalog or the CCMA Catalog by key word, year, title or author.
- If you know the project title for which the publication was developed, the Biogeography Projects web page links to individual project pages which link to project publications and related products. If you do not know the project or publication title, contact Chris.Caldow@noaa.gov and he will help you find it.
Maps, Data, Imagery, Software Tools, CDs/DVDs, Video
Most Biogeography products are organized and offered via individual web project pages, accessible thru the Biogeography Projects web list. If you know the project title, find and open the project page; the products are linked there; if you do not know the title, contact Chris.Caldow@noaa.gov and he will help you.
Select databases and software tools are linked in this table below.
| Biogeogeography Software Tools & Selected Databases |
Status |
Coral Reef Ecosystem Assessment and Monitoring Database
A database of photos and data on Caribbean coral reef ecosystems species and habitats |
Ongoing |
| BIOMapper, Palmyra Atoll, part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. BIOMapper is a GIS tool to explore the shallow-water benthic habitat maps, images and data for the study area of interest (see others below). |
2011 |
| BIOMapper, Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico |
2010 |
| BIOMapper, Vieques, Puerto Rico |
2010 |
| BioMapper, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands |
2009 |
Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Database: A Tool for Geospatial Assessment of Existing Information
A database and query tool of existing information on fish habitat in U.S. Atlantic coast estuaries, coastal watersheds and inshore waters. The database includes indicators of fish habitat condition, threats to habitat, conservation actions, lists of references (some are linked), and maps for querying the data. |
2008-2010 |
Benthic Habitat Viewer, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
An online database for exploring underwater images and data characterizing coral reef species and habitats off Puerto Rico and the USVI. |
2005 – 2008 |
Habitat Digitizer
A GIS tool to delineate features by visually interpreting georeferenced images, and also to select attributes using a a custom classification scheme. |
2005 – 2008 |
| ArcGIS9.2 Sampling Design Analysis Tool (GIS) |
2008 |
| Biogeographic Assessment off North/Central California: a series of assessment products on the marine environment, habitat and distribution and abundance of selected fishes, seabirds, marine mammals; maps (PDFs, GIS), data (GIS and Excel formats, 1980-2002) and reports are available. |
2004, 2008 |
| Aerial Photography Search, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico & Hawaii (1999 and older) |
2000 |
Estuarine Living Marine Resources Database (ELMR)
A web database and query tool on the distribution and relative abundance rankings and related attributes for selected fishes and invertebrates of 122 estuaries in the continental U.S. |
1985-2000 |