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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A programme that was established in order to provide a standardised method of characterising the conditions of reef corals. It can and has been used by both researchers and non-scientists to document observations of reefs at specific points in time, which can be followed up in subsequent observations to assess changes in the state of individual coral colonies, selected coral species, or a reef as a whole.
Industry:Natural environment
A programming language created by Sun Microsystems which allows the user to create programmes which run well in a networked environment (such as the World Wide Web). Java programmes are commonly called "applets" and can be used to add anything from calculators to animated images to web sites.
Industry:Natural environment
A protein sequence database of classified and functionally annotated protein sequences that grew out of the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure (1965-1978) .
Industry:Natural environment
A provision of the Clean Water Act (CWA) which prohibits discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States unless a special permit is issued by EPA, a state, or where delegated, a tribal government on an Indian reservation.
Industry:Natural environment
A reef formed by Lophelia pertusa, a deep-sea coral found in all oceans except the Arctic Ocean.
Industry:Natural environment
A region situated between the Mariana Trench in the west and the Line Islands in the east. The name "Micronesia" means "tiny islands." the Federated States of Micronesia consists of the states of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae. This region is composed of thousands of small islands, mostly atolls.
Industry:Natural environment
A regional coral reef, seagrass and mangrove monitoring programme and network involving a number of Caribbean laboratories, parks and reserves to study land-sea interaction processes in the wider Caribbean region. Twenty-seven institutions in 17 countries participate in CARICOMP.
Industry:Natural environment
A remote-sensing technique that uses a laser light source to probe the characteristics of a surface target. A laser emission may be directed downward from a low flying aircraft. Information about the target is derived from back-scattered reflectance or fluorescence of the target. Chlorophyll pigments in coral reef organisms (e.g., algae, seagrasses, coral), when excited by shorter (blue or green) wavelength light, emit light at longer (red) wavelengths, i.e., it fluoresces.
Industry:Natural environment
A repository of available information on the taxonomy, biology, ecology, occurrence and utilisation of fishes. It holds published information on almost all of the estimated 25,000 existing fish species. The information is arranged in 55 subject tables. It can be accessed through the Internet ( http://www.fishbase.org) or installed on a PC from a CD-ROM. At the heart of fishbase is the authoritative taxonomic fish classification established by W.N. Eschmeyer (California Academy of Science). It ensures that all information is assigned to current scientific names, even if a publication uses an outdated name.
Industry:Natural environment
A research initiative to conduct a taxonomically diversified census of coral reef ecosystems throughout the globe. This international partnership, led by NOAA’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Hawai´i Institute of Marine Biology, will expand tropical taxonomic knowledge (with a particular focus on understudied species), increase the exchange of coral reef ecosystem data dispersed throughout the globe, and develop new and innovative technology and sampling strategies, as well as contribute to the coml barcode initiative. Creefs plans to work closely with the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation programme (CRCP) and other organisations on outreach and education, collaboration with other existing coral reef efforts, and collection and unification of data into the Ocean Biogeographic Information centre for research, management, and preservation purposes.
Industry:Natural environment
