Coral Reef Ecosystem Program

The mission of the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program is to provide sound science to enable informed and effective implementation of ecosystem-based management and conservation strategies for coral reef ecosystems of the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands Region. More...

News and Highlights

• March 27, 2017
  

  Coral Reef Research Expedition to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument

  On March 26, scientists from PIFSC's Coral Reef Ecosystem Program embarked on a 35-day expedition aboard the NOAA Ship Hiʻialakai to conduct surveys of coral reef ecosystems at unpopulated islands in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument: Jarvis, Howland, and Baker Islands and Wake Atoll. More...
• July 12, 2016
  

  Scientists to Monitor Coral Reef Ecosystems throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago

  Scientists from the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center's Coral Reef Ecosystem Program embarked today on a 75-day mission aboard the NOAA Ship Hiʻialakai to study coral reef ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago. More...
• June 1, 2016
  

  El Niño Warming Turns Coral Garden in Marine National Monument into a Graveyard

  Scientists surveying coral reefs at Jarvis Island in the Pacific Ocean have discovered devastating loss of reef-building corals due to El Niño from May 2015 to April 2016. More...
• April 13, 2016
  

  Visual Surveys of Reef Fishes and Coral Reefs Underway in American Samoa

  Between 13 April and 31 May 2016, the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette will be the platform for a research project aimed at gathering data to improve assessments of reef fish populations in American Samoa and to assess the aftermath of the 2016 coral bleaching events at Rose Atoll and Jarvis Island. More...

Recent Staff Publications

• November 14, 2017

  Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: Howland and Baker Islands 2017

  Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
  [2017] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Data Report, DR-17-038, 4 p doi:10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-038

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• October 25, 2017

  Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: Jarvis Island 2017

  Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
  [2017] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Data Report, DR-17-035, 4 p doi:10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-035

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• October 25, 2017

  Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: Wake Atoll 2017

  Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
  [2017] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Data Report, DR-17-034, 4 p doi:10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-034

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• October 25, 2017

  Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: northern Mariana Islands 2017

  Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
  [2017] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Data Report, DR-17-037, 4 p doi:10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-037

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• October 25, 2017

  Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: southern Mariana Islands 2017

  Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
  [2017] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Data Report, DR-17-036, 4 p doi:10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-036

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• September 20, 2017

  Scale dependence of environmental controls on the functional diversity of coral reef fish communities

  Yeager LA, Deith MCM, McPherson JM, Williams ID, Baum JK
  [2017] Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(10):1177-1189. doi:10.1111/geb.12628

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