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More Than $1 Million Recommended for Ruth D. Gates Coral Restoration Innovation Grants Projects

Projects will develop novel coral restoration and intervention methods to restore resilient coral ecosystems.
January 16, 2025 - Feature Story ,
National
Dozens of coral fragments hang from horizontal criss-crossed poles attached to a thicker vertical pole rising from the seafloor. The underwater background is bright blue. Coral fragments hang from a nursery tree in the Johnston Applied Marine Sciences' nursery in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Credit: Victoria Barker/NOAA

Celebrate Corals Week

Corals Week is December 9–13, 2024! Join us in celebrating this diverse group of invertebrate animals and the reef habitats they create.
December 09, 2024 - Feature Story ,
National
Corals in clear pristine waters. Shallow water provides habitat for branching corals (Acropora spp), as seen here on a reef flat in Guam. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jonathan Brown

Hawai‘i Coral Reef Assessments Complete for 2024

Kānaka ʻŌiwi knowledge systems, values, and practices inform a 3-month mission assessing coral reef health and ocean conditions in Hawai‘i as part of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program.
November 27, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Healthy coral reef with fishes in the foreground, a diver conducts a survey in the background. A scientist carefully hovers above the reef off of Kailua-Kona to take photographs while swimming along a transect line. He took more than 1,000 photos of this single transect that will be stitched together to form a 3D model of this reef. It will be interesting to see how this reef with high coral cover has changed over time! Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dani Escontrella

Seafloor Mapping and Coral Reef Assessments Complete in the Mariana Archipelago

Scientists return from a 5-month research mission.
September 29, 2022 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
NOAA ship Rainier floats with an island in the background. The NOAA Ship Rainier operating in the Mariana Islands. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.

Coral Recovery After Bleaching Event in the Central Pacific

Scientists find signs of recovery 3 years after a mass coral mortality event at Jarvis Island.
June 08, 2022 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Coral recruit A tiny coral has settled on crustose coralline algae after a mass mortality event. This is a great sign for reef recovery! Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Brittany Huntington

“A Better Chance for Resilience”: Using Hungry Fish to Conserve Coral Reefs

NOAA Fisheries scientist Tye Kindinger explains how identifying the best algae-grazing fish in the Pacific region can help fight against algae overgrowth and promote recovery of distressed coral reefs.
April 17, 2022 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
A school of large parrotfish (Chlorurus frontalis) observed during fish surveys on a coral reef. A school of large parrotfish (Chlorurus frontalis) observed during fish surveys on a coral reef. These fish use their bird-like beaks to scrape away seaweed, or algae, on reefs. Larger parrotfish remove small amounts of underlying substrate, which creates new spaces for corals to grow. Credit: Kevin Lino/NOAA Fisheries

Coral Bleaching in 2019: Survey Update from O‘ahu

Notes from the field on the bleaching severity recorded around O‘ahu
November 13, 2019 - Survey ,
Pacific Islands
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Literature Cited in Pocillopora Meandrina Coral 90-Day Finding

Alphabetical listing of all documents cited in 90-day finding.
October 29, 2018 - Other Reports ,
Pacific Islands

12-Month Finding on Petition to List Pocillopora Meandrina Under the Endangered Species Act

Comparison of P. meandrina (left) and P. eydouxi (right), Philippines. Photo courtesy of Doug Fenner. Today, NOAA Fisheries published a Not Warranted 12-month finding for the Indo-Pacific reef-building coral Pocillopora meandrina in…
Notice,
Pacific Islands
Published
05/08/2025

Sea Tales of Deep Dives and Shallow Reefs

Coral reef surveys in American Samoa and the Pacific Remote Islands.
June 12, 2018 - Survey ,
Pacific Islands
NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai in front of Swains Island.