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
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March 27, 2017
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...
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July 12, 2016
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...
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June 1, 2016
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...
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April 13, 2016
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
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November 14, 2017Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: Howland and Baker Islands 2017Ecosystem 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 -
October 25, 2017Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: Jarvis Island 2017Ecosystem 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 -
October 25, 2017Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: Wake Atoll 2017Ecosystem 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 -
October 25, 2017Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: northern Mariana Islands 2017Ecosystem 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 -
October 25, 2017Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic REA monitoring summary: southern Mariana Islands 2017Ecosystem 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 -
September 20, 2017Scale dependence of environmental controls on the functional diversity of coral reef fish communitiesYeager LA, Deith MCM, McPherson JM, Williams ID, Baum JK
[2017] Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(10):1177-1189. doi:10.1111/geb.12628