70636 NCRMP Coral Demographics Survey Field Protocols for U.S. Atlantic: Florida, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, U.S. VI Document Published / External 70628 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef benthic communities in Puerto Rico from 2021-04-30 to 2021-12-24 (NCEI Accession 0272313) Data Set Unknown 2018-01 This outlines the protocols developed from 2013-2018 to design and generate a gridded, stratified sample frame for particular study regions monitored by NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/Biogeography Branch and its partners as part of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) directed by NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). A stratified random sample selection (using weighted strata allocations) is applied to a region's sample frame to select sites for each survey mission. These regions are surveyed biennially, and each sample frame is updated or re-created prior to each survey mission to incorporate new strata data or reflect protocol changes as they have evolved and improved over the years. The following workflow is up to date as of 2018 and specifically addresses the methodology of sample frame generation. Broader protocols for sample design and allocation can be found in a separate document. Suggested Citation CRCP. 2022. National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) Coral Demographics Survey Field Protocols for U.S. Atlantic: Florida, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands. 2022. NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. 27 pp. doi: 10.25923/9a1r-m911 10.25923/9a1r-m911 NOAA Central Library National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland Silver Spring MD Documentation Acrobat Portable Document Format Published Distributor 2022 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NCEI ncei.info@noaa.gov https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. Online Resource Distributor 2022 Organization NOAA Institutional Repository REPOS noaa.repository@noaa.gov https://repository.library.noaa.gov/ NOAA Institutional Repository Home Page Online Resource https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/41726/noaa_41726_DS1.pdf 2022 Organization NOAA Institutional Repository noaa_41726_DS1.pdf File as found in NOAA Repository PDF PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format 3.76mb https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0272313/1.1/data/0-data/NCRMP_PR_2021_Benthics/Documentation/NCRMP_CoralDemographics_Protocol_2022_FRC_508c.pdf 2022 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 NCRMP_CoralDemographics_Protocol_2022_FRC_508c.pdf 2022-11-10T20:21:00 PDF PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format 3.8Mb gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:70636 Lee Weinberger 2023-08-25T00:24:45 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2026-03-04T19:17:17 2023-08-28 Southeast Fisheries Science Center SEFSC 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA (305)361-5761 www.sefsc.noaa.gov 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST 1001 Public No 1 Year