Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:47:35 -1000 From: Patrick Caldwell Subject: Potts-Nowramp-cora-surveys Sender: caldwell@hawaii.edu To: Francis Mitchell Reply-To: patrick.caldwell@noaa.gov Hey Franco, Another is ready: Potts_NOWRAMP.tar #ABSTRACT: The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (NOWRAMP) began in 2000 with the mission to rapidly evaluate and map the shallow water reef habitats in the NWHI. Utilizing two research vessels Rapture and R/V Townsend Cromwell, researchers spent 30 days at sea visiting each of the ten major slands, atolls and reefs in the remote region of the Hawaiian archipelago. This dataset is a small subset from these cruises. It includes spreadsheet data files on habitats, coral cores, coral species, substrate types, and substrate type percent bottom cover. A descriptive document is also included which was the basis for groundtruthing images from remote sensing. These descriptions give a wide range of information on coral and reef fish species abundance and distribution. Cheers, Pat -- Mr. Patrick Caldwell NOAA Data Center Hawaii Liaison (NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC) Dept. of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 USA// 808-956-4105