- Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A collection of cloned DNA fragments that collectively represent the genome of an organism.
Industry:Natural environment
A commercial array-oriented language with numerical analysis and display features, first released in 1977. It supports interactive reduction, analysis, and visualisation of scientific data.
Industry:Natural environment
A community-based monitoring programme developed by Queensland's Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (QDPI&F) in conjunction with community groups. Seagrass-Watch collects data about the condition and trend of near-shore seagrasses throughout Queensland and provides an early warning of major changes in seagrass abundance, distribution and species composition .
Industry:Natural environment
A cooperative effort among Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to improve the management of coral reefs in island areas.
Industry:Natural environment
A data entry and analysis programme developed by the southern Indian Ocean Global Coral Reef Monitoring programme (GCRMN) node. It is based on ARMDES (AIMS Reef Monitoring Data Entry System) but has been extensively modified from COREMO to suit the needs of the GCRMN.
Industry:Natural environment
A data entry and analysis programme running on Microsoft Access, which enables users to input data from line transects, manta tows, and fish visual censuses into a standard access database and to carry out basic analysis of the data. It was created by AIMS and is distributed free of charge.
Industry:Natural environment
A deep water Lophelia reef located in the Skagerrak, the submarine border between Norway and Sweden, at depths of 74 to 155 m. It has the world's only known yellow Lophelia pertusa corals.
Industry:Natural environment
A deep water Lophelia reef located on the Sula Ridge on the Mid-Norwegian shelf at depths of 200 - 300 m. A very large deep water coral reef, it is about 13 km long, 700 m wide, and up to 35 m high.
Industry:Natural environment
A description of how a natural phenomenon will occur under certain circumstances; a statement that summarises the results observed in an experiment that is repeated many times by many different scientists. A scientific law is widely accepted as true or as a fact, such as Newton's Laws of Gravitation.
Industry:Natural environment
A designated area for the conservation and replenishment of marine resources. Mlcds allow only limited fishing and other consumptive uses, or prohibit such uses entirely. They provide fishes and other aquatic life with a protected area in which to grow and reproduce, and are home to a great variety of species.
Industry:Natural environment
