70921 Document Published / External 70911 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef fish communities in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary from 2018-06-11 to 2018-06-14 (NCEI Accession 0208240) Data Set 2018-04-05 Describes 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. To describe the sampling designs used to monitor coral reefs and associated biological communities around Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands (USVI) and the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) as part of NCRMP that were done for 2018 National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland Silver Spring MD Documentation Acrobat Portable Document Format Published Distributor 2021 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 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0208240/2.2/data/0-data/NCRMP_FGB2018_Fish_ArchiveDataPackage/NCRMP_FGB2018_Fish_ArchiveDataPackage/Documentation/NCRMP_Protocol_SampleFrame_2018.pdf 2021 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 NCRMP_CaribGOM_Protocol_SampleFrame_2018.pdf 2019-10-04T11:26:00 PDF PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format 3.1 MB gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:70921 Lee Weinberger 2023-09-26T14:10:07 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2026-03-04T19:17:17 2023-09-26 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