From: Lori Luers - NOAA Affiliate Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 11:19 AM Subject: nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov To: Hi CoRIS Team, I would like to request an update to Accession Number 0162829 Reference ID: PH0AXF, for the submission package "Assessing cryptic reef diversity of colonizing marine invertebrates using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) deployed at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2012 to 2015”. The Responsible Persons will be updated to: Add Michael Akridge, collaborator, michael.akridge@noaa.gov, US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Ecosystem Sciences Division The Location will be updated to: Northern Boundary: 13.728054 Southern Boundary: 13.658594 Eastern Boundary: 120.895127 Western Boundary: 120.871943 The Abstract will be updated to: “Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) are used by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) to assess and monitor cryptic reef diversity across the Pacific. Developed in collaboration with the Census of Marine Life (CoML) Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems (CReefs), ARMS are designed to mimic the structural complexity of a reef and attract/collect colonizing marine invertebrates. The key innovation of the ARMS method is that biodiversity is sampled over precisely the same surface area in the exact same manner. Thus, the use of ARMS is a systematic, consistent, and comparable method for monitoring the marine cryptobiota community over time. The data described here were collected by CREP from ARMS moored at fixed climate survey sites located on hard bottom shallow water (< 15 m) habitats in the Philippines. Climate sites were established by CREP to assess multiple features of the coral reef environment (in addition to the data described herein) from March 2012 to June 2015, and three ARMS units were deployed by SCUBA divers at each survey site. The data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive. Each ARMS unit, constructed in-house by CREP, consisted of 23 cm x 23 cm gray, type 1 PVC plates stacked in alternating series of 4 open and 4 obstructed layers and attached to a base plate of 35 cm x 45 cm, which was affixed to the reef. Upon recovery, each ARMS unit was encapsulated, brought to the surface, and disassembled and processed. Disassembled plates were photographed to document recruited sessile organisms and scraped clean and preserved in 95% ethanol for DNA processing. Recruited motile organisms were sieved into 3 size fractions: 2 mm, 500 µm, and 100 µm. The 500 µm and 100 µm fractions were bulked and also preserved in 95% ethanol for DNA processing. The 2 mm fraction was sorted into morphospecies. The DNA sequencing data are not included in this archival package. The files to be updated in the existing package are: 1. Original: ARMS_Specimens_Philippines_2015.csv New: ARMS_Specimens_CT_VIP_2015.csv The files to be added to the package are: 1. ARMS_CT_VIP2015_DataDictionary.csv The Google Drive link where all new files for the package are stored: We will upload the files here within the folder NCEI Temp Upload Update the InPort XML files: There are two files to update that are attached to this email: 1. 45818_inport.xml 2. 45818_iso19115.xml Please let me know if you have any questions, thank you! Best, Lori