Integrating Predictions of Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Habitat with Ocean Mapping and Exploration Offshore the US West Coast – An Example from the EXPRESS Campaign
Matthew D Poti1,2, Curt Whitmire3, Laurie Bauer1,2, Joseph J Bizzarro4,5, M. Elizabeth Clarke6, Michael Coyne1,2, Meredith Everett6,7, Lisa Gilbane8, Thomas F. Hourigan9, Tom Laidig4, Abigail Powell6,7, Arliss J Winship1,2 and Mary Yoklavich4, (1)NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)CSS, Inc., Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Monterey, CA, United States, (4)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (6)NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Lynker Technologies LLC/NWFSC, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)NOAA Fisheries Service, Deep Sea Coral Research & Technology Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States
