32995
Oculina Habitat Area of Concern Assessment
Data Set
Published / External
3835
Oculina Habitat Area of Concern Assessment
Project
Completed
2002-12-31
Scientists and students will be exploring the deepwater coral reefs of the Oculina Banks, which stretch 30 miles offshore from Ft. Pierce to Cape Canaveral. This remote area includes the East Coast's first Marine Protected Area (MPA) which is a model for efforts underway to create new MPAs throughout southeast U.S. waters and the Gulf of Mexico. The team will use a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to study the current health of coral on the banks, which has been decimated in places by commercial trawling. They will also test an acoustic monitoring system that could one day be used to not only monitor fish behavior but also to detect illegal fishing activity on the reefsscientists and students will be exploring the deepwater coral reefs of the Oculina Banks, which stretch 30 miles offshore from Ft. Pierce to Cape Canaveral. This remote area includes the East Coast's first Marine Protected Area (MPA) which is a model for efforts underway to create new MPAs throughout southeast U.S. waters and the Gulf of Mexico. The team will use a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to study the current health of coral on the banks, which has been decimated in places by commercial trawling. They will also test an acoustic monitoring system that could one day be used to not only monitor fish behavior but also to detect illegal fishing activity on the reefs
Scientists on the Oculina cruise will also be deploying a Passive Acoustic Monitoring System (PAMS) developed by NASA to monitor the impacts of rocket launches on wildlife refuge lagoons at the Kennedy Space Center. Led by Dr. Grant Gilmore, Dynamac Corporation, they will test the system's suitability for detecting offshore fish populations and vessel traffic. PAMS uses technology similar to that which allows the Navy to detect ships and submarines. Scientists from NASA Kennedy Space Center and NOAA Fisheries will join Dr. Gilmore specifically to see if the unit can be used to detect the presence of specific fish species and behaviors such as courtship and spawning aggregation. If so, the system could dramatically increase monitoring capabilities at the remote reefs.
To understand the condition of the Oculina habitat and fish populations and to establish a baseline from which to gauge the success of the Oculina MPA in restoring them. Data collected will be integrated with past work into a Geographic Information System.
This meta data on this data set should be edited
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC), the governing body that establishes fishing regulations, is currently considering establishing new MPAs throughout the southeast U.S and the Gulf of Mexico to help sustain declining reef fisheries, particularly snapper and grouper. Research at the Oculina Banks will provide crucial information to aid managers in making decisions about the new MPAs, including whether to extend the closure of the Oculina MPA beyond its current end date in 2004.
Spatial
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
Theme
Grouper
Theme
Reef Fish
Theme
abundance
Theme
coral reef
Theme
distribution
Theme
finss
Theme
snapper
Temporal
2001-2004
Spatial
Atlantic Ocean
Spatial
Oculina Banks
Stratum
NOAA Fisheries Glossary
species
Data Set
GIS Files
As Needed
GIS Files
None
Originator University of North Carolina at Wilmington . Publisher NOAA Undersea Research Center at UNCW
multi-beam
Divers
ROV
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Data Steward
2015
Person
Harter, Stacey
Stacey.Harter@noaa.govs
3500 Delwood Beach Road
Panama City
FL
32408
850-234-6541
850.235.3559
Distributor
2008
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
NCEI-MD
NOAA/NESDIS E/OC SSMC3, 4th Floor, 1351 East-West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910-3282
(301) 713-3277
Metadata Contact
2015
Person
Harter, Stacey
Stacey.Harter@noaa.govs
3500 Delwood Beach Road
Panama City
FL
32408
850-234-6541
850.235.3559
Point of Contact
2005-01-01
Person
Harter, Stacey
Stacey.Harter@noaa.govs
3500 Delwood Beach Road
Panama City
FL
32408
850-234-6541
850.235.3559
Oculina Banks, which stretch 30 miles offshore from Ft. Pierce to Cape Canaveral.
Range
2001
2005
Unclassified
Open to everyone
Go to specified url to download the data
NOAA Data Quality Act Documentation and Pre-Dissemination guidelines
Data set is not for use in litigation. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentations caused by inaccuracies in these data, or as a result of these data being used on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does distribution constitute any such warranty
Open to everyone
Please cite appropriately
2008
http://ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/coris/data/NOAA/nurc/oculina/GIS/
2008
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
Url Landing Page to get Data Files from archive
You then navigate down to download files
GIS
Uncompressed
Not Chked
2005
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/coris/data/NOAA/nurc/oculina/bathymetry/XYZ/north_oculina.zip
2008
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
north_oculina.zip
bathymetry files for northern part of geographical area
zip
Zip
Not Chked
2005
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/coris/data/NOAA/nurc/oculina/bathymetry/XYZ/south_oculina.zip
2008
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
south_oculina.zip
bathymetry files for southern part of oculina area
zip
Zip
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2005
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/coris/data/NOAA/nurc/oculina/bathymetry/geoTIFF/
2008
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
Landing page forbathymetric geotiff files
GeoTIFF
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https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/coris/data/NOAA/nurc/oculina/clelia_dive_narratives/
2008
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
Landing Page For Dive Narratives (.pdf format)
PDF
PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format
Uncompressed
Chked Viruses Inapp Content
http://ocean.floridamarine.org/efh_coral/metadata/
FMRI (State of Florida Website with oculina metadata
Online Resource
Some of the same information on the NCEI archive may be found in the ocolina files accessible from this page.
http://oceanica.cofc.edu/Oculina2003/home.htm
project description
Online Resource
html
2003 project description and its data
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/coris/data/NOAA/nurc/oculina/GIS/oculina/index.htm
Oculina Habitat Area of Particular Concern An Interactive GIS
Online Resource
Allows Data Download
in ncei archive
The multi-beam and sidescan surveys performed in October 2002 provide a 1 meter resolution image of the bathymetry in the EORR.
Data is checked as it is entered
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Already Provided at NCEI
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NCEI-MD
Already Archived
Data Already archived
The data is collected and then verified
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Oculina Banks: Habitat, Fish Populations, Restoration, and Enforcement
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