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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
ESRI software that allows for centrally hosting and serving GIS maps, data, and applications for use on the Internet.
Industry:Natural environment
Established by President Clinton in June, 1998, through Executive Order 13089 on Coral Reef Protection, to lead the U.S. response to this growing global environmental crisis. Chaired by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce, the USCRTF is composed of the heads of 11 federal agencies and the Governors of 7 states, territories or commonwealths with responsibilities for coral reefs. The USCRTF is responsible for overseeing implementation of the Executive Order, and developing and implementing coordinated efforts to: map and monitor U.S. coral reefs; research the causes and solutions to coral reef degradation; reduce and mitigate coral reef degradation from pollution, overfishing and other causes; and implement strategies to promote conservation and sustainable use of coral reefs internationally.
Industry:Natural environment
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analysing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease. NCBI is a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Industry:Natural environment
Eversible toxic or sticky tubules associated with the bases of the respiratory trees of some sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea-Echinodermata).
Industry:Natural environment
Evolution of life forms by the process of natural selection acting on random genetic variations.
Industry:Natural environment
Exact copies of DNA segments prepared by using recombinant DNA technology.
Industry:Natural environment
Fagatele Bay, located on Tutuila, the largest island of American Samoa, was designated as a National Marine Sanctuary in 1986. It is the smallest and most remote of all the national marine sanctuaries encompassing only 163 acres (.25 sq. Mi.). Fagatele is the only true tropical coral reef in the National Marine Sanctuaries Program.
Industry:Natural environment
Fifteen US coral jurisdictions are found across the US and Pacific Freely Associated States. From East to West, the six Atlantic/Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico jurisdictions are the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Puerto Rico, Navassa Island, Southeast Florida, the Florida Keys, and the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, and other banks of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. In the Pacific, the nine jurisdictions are the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI), the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), American Samoa, the Pacific Remote Island Areas (prias), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, and the Republic of Palau.
Industry:Natural environment
FOARAM mandates that NOAA has an active monitoring and research programme to determine potential impacts of decreased ocean ph and carbonate saturation states, which are happening in direct response to rising atmospheric CO2.
Industry:Natural environment
Formed in 2000, NOAA's CRW maximises NESDIS's coral reef resources by joining and building on existing NESDIS coral reef strengths under a more coordinated program. It seeks to develop a long-term coral reef monitoring system with the ability to predict coral bleaching episodes in all major U.S. coral reef areas.
Industry:Natural environment
