Cetaceans are ecologically important marine predators, and designating individuals to distinct populations can be challenging. Passive acoustic monitoring provides an approach to classify cetaceans to populations using their vocalizations. In the Hawaiian Archipelago, three genetically distinct, sympatric false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) populations coexist: a broadly distributed pelagic...

This metadata record describes the lidar point cloud data encompassing Southern New Jersey, collected as 2 areas of interest through the USGS projects titled 'NJ South 4-County' and 'NJ South FEMA' by the Sanborn Map Company, Inc. NOAA's Office for Coastal Management retrieved the data from the USGS' rockyftp website and processed it to the Digital Coast. Product: These lidar data are processe...

Coral belt observations (juvenile)