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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
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 program 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 maximizes 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
Gray's Reef comprises one of the largest nearshore sandstone reefs in the southeastern United States.It is located 32 kilometers (17.5 nautical miles) off Sapelo Island, Georgia. Designated in 1981, the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary boundaries protect 17 square miles of open ocean. Sandstone outcroppings and ledges up to ten feet in height separate the sandy, flat-bottomed troughs in a reef that combines temperate and tropical flora and fauna. The rocky platform, some 60 to 70 feet below the surface, is covered by a carpet of attached organisms and is known locally as a "live bottom habitat." Gray's reef is not a coral reef. It is a consolidation of marine and terrestrial sediments (sand, shell, and mud) which was laid down as loose aggregate between 6 and 2 million years ago.
Industry:Natural environment
Group containing all multicellular animals with bilateral symmetry; the name has no taxonomic status.
Industry:Natural environment
Groups of neurosecretory cells in the eyestalks of crustaceans that secrete a molt-inhibiting hormone.
Industry:Natural environment
