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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A NOAA programme whose mission is to provide services to help improve and sustain coral reef health throughout the world. Long term goals are: establish an international network of coral reef researchers for the purpose of sharing knowledge and information on coral health and monitoring; provide near real-time data products derived from satellite images and monitoring stations at coral reef areas; provide a data repository for historical data collected from coral reef areas; and add to the general fund of coral reef knowledge.
Industry:Natural environment
A NOAA programme whose purposes are: (1) to preserve, sustain, and restore the condition of coral reef ecosystems; (2) to promote the wise management and sustainable use of coral reefs; (3) to develop sound scientific information on the condition of coral reef ecosystems and the threats to such ecosystems; (4) to assist in the preservation of coral reefs by supporting conservation programs, including projects that involve affected local communities and nongovernmental organizations; (5) to provide financial resources for those programmes and projects; and (6) to establish a formal mechanism for collecting and allocating monetary donations from the private sector to be used for coral reef conservation projects.
Industry:Natural environment
A non-profit group or association organised outside of institutionalised political structures to obtain particular social objectives (such as environmental protection) or serve particular constituencies.
Industry:Natural environment
A partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies, other organizations, and taxonomic specialists cooperating on the development of an online, scientifically credible, list of biological names. ITIS is also a participating member of Species 2000, an international project indexing the world's known species.
Industry:Natural environment
A phenomenon characterised by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the eastern Equatorial Pacific, compared to El Niño, which is characterised by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the eastern Equatorial Pacific.
Industry:Natural environment
A phylum of elongated, often flattened marine worm-like animals comprising nearly 1000 species which range in size from less than an inch to nearly 30 m. They are carnivorous and feed upon annelid worms as well as other marine animals. Their most distinctive structure is a proboscis which is used for food capture, defense, and burrowing into the soft substrate. The sexes are separate in most species and fertilzation is external. Many are capable of reproducing asexually by fragmentation of the body. They are also called "ribbon worms".
Industry:Natural environment
A phylum of marine invertebrates that superficially resemble bivalve mollusks because of their hinged bilaterally symmetrical shells.They are commonly known as "lampshells".
Industry:Natural environment
A post-processing tool-set which has been developed to visualize, handle, and enhance images, videos and data recorded during IFREMER underwater vehicle dives.
Industry:Natural environment
A probability distribution of random occurrences in which one occurrence has no influence on any other occurrence. The variance of a poisson distribution is equal to its mean and therefore the standard deviation is equal to the square root of the mean of the distribution.
Industry:Natural environment
A programme in the Microsoft Office suite which allows users to create presentations and handouts. By creating powerpoint "slides," users can add color, images, sounds, and movies to their text presentations.
Industry:Natural environment
