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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
9 km monthly or yearly averages of satellite-derived (see AVHRR) sea surface temperatures obtained over periods of 10 years or longer.
Industry:Natural environment
A “user-driven” integrated system of observations, data management and communications, and data analysis and modelling that provides data and information required to achieve seven societal goals: 1) Improve predictions of climate change and variability (weather) and their effects on coastal communities and the nation; 2) Improve the safety and efficiency of marine operations; 3) More effectively mitigate the effects of natural hazards; 4) Improve national and homeland security; 5) Reduce public health risks; 6) More effectively protect and restore healthy coastal marine ecosystems; and 7) Enable the sustained use of marine resources .
Industry:Natural environment
A 21-23 nucleotide-long RNA that mediates messenger RNA (mrna) catalysis; used in gene suppression.
Industry:Natural environment
A boat-mounted instrument, developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, that acquires continuous digital still images of shallow-marine substrates.
Industry:Natural environment
A brand of activated charcoal used in the treatment of poisoning by most organic chemicals .
Industry:Natural environment
A breathing gas mixture for scuba divers which has a percentage of oxygen greater than 21 percent as is found in normal air. This mixture allows longer bottom times at limited depths.
Industry:Natural environment
Structures designed to mimic the complex coral reef environment and attract colonising coral reef organisms in order to assess invertebrate biodiversity by measuring/monitoring diversity of cryptic organisms globally over time. ARMS provide standard methods for taxonomic and molecular analyses to assess invertebrate biodiversity. Information from the ARMS will provide managers with a tool to assess this diversity along with the affects of climate change and ocean acidification, globally. More than 500 ARMS have been deployed throughout the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans.
Industry:Natural environment
The class of cartilaginous fishes that includes sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras. Their skeleton is composed of cartilage, not bone.
Industry:Natural environment
The Crown-of-Thorns starfish genus. Acanthaster planci is a voracious Indo-Pacific predator of corals.
Industry:Natural environment
The ecdyzoans comprise one of the major and largest protostome groups within the animal kingdom. It includes both the arthropods and the nematodes, as well as lesser groups such as rotifers, cephalorhynchs (which include priapulids, kinorhynchs, and loriciferans), and onychophorans. Ecdysozoans build a cuticle, an outer layer of organic material that functions as a lightweight flexible exoskeleton. The name Ecdysozoa refers to the fact that many members of this group regularly shed their cuticle, a process called ecdysis.
Industry:Natural environment
