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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Time in which reporting of events or recording of events is simultaneous with the event.
Industry:Natural environment
The CLEO project is designed to provide easy access to gray literature and pre-1990's literature on the coral reef environments near the Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS) monitoring stations to support education, research and management objectives. The Education modules leverage techniques developed at NOAA/AOML in the Explorer of the Seas, Coral Health and Monitoring and CREWS programs under which knowledge transfer of oceanographic instrumentaion and coral reef processes have been developed. Education modules for middle school students engage the students in oceanographic instrumentation, classroom experiments and use of data, and the live Coral Cam observations.
Industry:Natural environment
A color pattern that breaks up the outline of an organism.
Industry:Natural environment
A Geographic Information System (GIS) methodology to identify the distribution of biodiversity over large spatial areas. It was developed in 1988 by the U.S. Geological Survey in an effort to ensure that regions rich in species diversity are conserved with the hope that this will eliminate the need to list species as threatened or endangered in the future. The gap analysis approach uses maps of vegetation and predicted animal distributions to locate centers of species richness outside areas currently managed for biodiversity protection. These are considered the "gaps" of gap analysis. Thus far, its use primarily has been in the terrestrial sphere.
Industry:Natural environment
A rise above normal water level on the open coast due to the action of wind stress on the water surface.
Industry:Natural environment
A symbiotic organism; either of two organisms participating in a symbiotic relationship.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism which has adopted a lifestyle or niche specific to a particular set of conditions.
Industry:Natural environment
Consisting of dissimilar elements, parts or forms; having non-uniform structure or composition.
Industry:Natural environment
In coral sexual reproduction, the polyps of many species release bundles of eggs and sperm cells, called gamete bundles, that float to the sea surface. The layers surrounding the egg and sperm bundles soon rupture, releasing the gametes at the surface, where fertilization occurs.
Industry:Natural environment
