11th ICRS Abstract book - Nova Southeastern University

Poster Mini-Symposium 16: Ecosystem Assessment and Monitoring of Coral Reefs - New Technologies and Approaches
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Coral Literature Education and Outreach, CLEO
Linda PIKULA* 1 , Erica RULE 2 , Derek MANZELLO 3
1 LISD, NOAA, Miami, FL, 2 NOAA, AOML, Miami, FL, 3 AOML, NOAA, Miami, FL
The CLEO Program leverages techniques developed at NOAA/AOML under the
Explorer of the Seas, Coral Health and Monitoring Program, and Integrated
Coral Observing Network (ICON/CREWS) programs, under which knowledge
transfer of oceanographic instrumentation and coral reef processes have been developed.
The Gray Literature Section Coral Literature Education and Outreach (CLEO) project
is designed to provide access to “gray” (unpublished or largely uncirculated) literature,
data, and documentation on coral reefs constituting the Integrated Coral Observing
Network/Coral Reef Early Warning System (ICON/CREWS) monitoring stations. The
literature collected in CLEO bibliographies provides foundational and unique research to
scientists, educators, and other interested parties who are researching coral reefs, reef
dynamics, reef ecology, and reef processes. The items found in these databases are
readily accessible in an online, full-text format.
CLEO databases provide background literature for sites at La Parguera (Puerto Rico), St.
Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands), St. Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands), Exuma (Bahamas), and
Molasses Reef (United States), with several more sites, including Discovery Bay
(Jamaica) planned for future release. The ICON/CREWS project is pursuing a U.S. Coral
Reef Task Force goal of establishing monitoring stations at all major U.S. coral reef
areas by 2010. The gray literature database intends to complement these sites.
The Educational Modules are being developed for middle school classes. Each
module consists of three segments: background information (science behind the
instrument), classroom experiment (experiment to test parameter instrument measures),
and teacher's section (describes the Educational Objectives / National Science Standards,
Preliminary Activities/Demonstrations, Suggestions for teaching the concept, and
Follow-up or Extension Activities for the class.) Students will be engaged to plot and
manipulate the data, and to witness events live on the Web via the ICON/CREWS
Coral Cam. The current modules are Coral Spawning, Coral Bleaching and
Effects of CO2 on Coral Reefs.
Both Modules at : http://www.coral.noaa.gov/cleo/literature.shtml
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Vdms Archiving And Providing Online Access To The Noaa Ocean Exploration
Digital Video And Image Data On Deep Corals
Anna FIOLEK 1 , Janice BEATTIE 1 , Eileen MCVEY 1 , Linda PIKULA* 2
1 NOAA Central Library, Silver Spring, MD, 2 NOAA Miami Regional Library, Miami,
FL
Hundred of digital video clips, movies, still images and products from the NOAA
signature expeditions to coral reef areas are available via NOAALINC, the NOAA
Central Library online catalog.
In 2003, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of
Ocean Exploration (OE) embarked on a collaboration with the NOAA Central Library
(NCL), the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), and the National Coastal Data
Development Center (NCDDC) to address the requirements for archiving, preserving,
providing online access and managing digital video, and still images from OE
oceanographic expeditions.
As a result of this collaboration with OE, NOAA’s Coral Reef Information System
(CoRIS), and other NOAA offices, the library team has developed the Video Data
Management System (VDMS) to provide online information and access to NOAA
oceanographic cruises that comply with applicable metadata standards. Knowledge of
metadata and metadata-making tools was essential. In January 2003, they developed the
pilot plan and gave a presentation to OE stakeholders.
Using existing library tools and infrastructure, the library team led the process of
archiving, preserving and providing online access to NOAA oceanographic information.
Currently, via the NOAA Library and Information Network Catalog (NOAALINC), the
library online catalog (http://www.lib.noaa.gov/uhtbin/webcat), information on
thousands of hours of digital videos from NOAA signature expeditions from 2001 are
accessible to a global community. NOAA scientists can retrieve the expeditions’ original
tapes from the NOAA Library Archives. Online information includes digital video
highlights, still images, cruise reports, educational lesson plans, original video and image
annotations, Web sites, and more.
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The Instrumental Architecture Of A Coral Reef Early Warning System (Crews) Station
Mike JANKULAK* 1 , Michael SHOEMAKER 2 , James HENDEE 2
1 Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL,
2 Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Miami, FL
CREWS stations originated at, and are constructed by, NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and
Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Florida, and have been deployed at Lee Stocking Island
(the Bahamas), St. Croix (USVI), La Parguera (Puerto Rico), and Discovery Bay (Jamaica),
with new installations planned for Little Cayman, Saipan, Antigua, and elsewhere. The
dynamic pylon supports an architecture that includes all the basic meteorological instruments
(e.g., for winds, barometric pressure, precipitation, light), oceanographic instruments (e.g., sea
temperature, salinity, light, pCO2, PAM-fluorometry), data logger, solar panels, batteries,
satellite transmitter, GPS tracker, lightening arrestor, and, as required, a microwave transmitter
for transmitting real-time underwater and above-water video. This report explains how the
instrumental architecture is arranged, the considerations necessary for proper maintenance, how
the metadata are logged, how the data logger is programmed, and how instruments of
importance to specific coral reef research projects can and soon will be accommodated. An
outline for a technology transfer program at upcoming installations is also presented.
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The Minimum Sampling Effort For Monitoring Coral Reefs Applying The Video-Transect
Igor CRUZ* 1 , Ruy KIKUCHI 1 , Zelinda LEAO 1
1 Federal University of Bahia - Brazil, Salvador, Brazil
The main goal of this work was to define the fastest and the least expensive sampling program
capable of giving information regarding species composition of important taxa, in a selected
coral reef complex, namely Itacolomis Reefs, in the Corumbau Marine Extractive Reserve,
located at the southern part of the state of Bahia, in Eastern Brazil. Ten, 20 m long, belttransects
were performed at the top of the Pedra do Silva Reef, covering its northern half in
water depths of around 3 m. The average living coral coverage, coral diversity index and coral
species richness were evaluated based on the analysis of 20 points per frame in each of the ten
belt-transects (average 98.2±7.4 frames per belt-transect). For both quantitative and qualitative
data sets, the coral species richness estimators (ICE, ACE, Chao 1, Chao 2 and Cole), and the
unique and duplicate occurrences of species, plotted against the cumulative transect data,
indicate that almost all curves stabilized with six to seven transects and with up to ten coral
species (maximum of eleven coral species was found). These results indicate that six 20 m long
transects with an analysis of 20 points per image (frame) was sufficient for sampling the broad
taxonomic categories of hard corals, and that the whole field operation could be performed
during a single dive per station, up to 10 m deep, saving considerable time and compressed air
consumption. The technique may also be applied in other reefs with similar characteristics, as
well as along the whole Brazilian Coast considering that the coral richness of Pedra do Silva
Reef is comparable, or even higher, than any other reef area in Brazil.
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