CP013
Regional to Global Monitoring of Coral Reef Ecosystems
Session ID#: 85274
Session Description:
Coral reefs and associated coastal ecosystems are among the most vulnerable and productive in the world. Coral reefs are under immediate threat from climate change, coastal development, pollution, and overfishing. Although the overall extent of reefs is relatively consistent, the accuracy of our global scale knowledge of shallow reef extent remains in question, and the extent of deeper reefs is even less understood. Additionally, reef composition, including live coral, dead/bleaching coral, and macroalgal cover, is changing fast and will continue to change. However, changes in the relative cover of reef compositional components are poorly understood. Emerging satellite and airborne remote sensing techniques are providing new approaches to reevaluate reef extent and to track changes in reef composition at regional to global scales. This session organizes and integrates ongoing research from numerous organizations on remote sensing of coral reef cover and change, with particular focus on high spatial and temporal resolution regional to global scale satellite and airborne methods and findings.
Index Terms:
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4220 Coral reef systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4894 Instruments, sensors, and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Chair: Greg Asner, Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States
Co-chairs: Chris M Roelfsema1, Lauren Kickham2 and Stuart R Phinn1, (1)University of Queensland, Remote Sensing Research Centre, St Lucia, QLD, Australia(2)Vulcan Inc., Seattle
Primary Liaison: Jiwei Li, Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States
Fecal pellets of giant clams, as vectors to transport zooxanthellae. (640610)
Masami Umeki1, Yuji Nakamura2, Hiroshi Yamashita3, Go Suzuki3, Shinya Morishima4 and Kazuhiko Koike1, (1)Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, (2)Okinawa Prefectural Fisheries Research and Extension Center, Japan, (3)Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan, (4)Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Japan
High Resolution, Accurately Georeferenced Bathymetric Data of Coral Reefs Without Ground Control (641554)
Gerald A Hatcher1, Jonathan A Warrick1, Andrew C Ritchie2, Evan Dailey3, David G Zawada4, Christine Kranenburg5 and Kimberly Kaye Yates6, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)USGS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (5)USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (6)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States
Multi-species Coral Rescue in Response to the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) on the Florida Reef Tract (641636)
Ananda Ellis1, Stephanie Schopmeyer2, Robert Ruzicka2, Jennifer Moore3, Lisa Gregg4, Keri O'Neil5, Andrew Bruckner6, David Gilliam7, Maurizio Martinelli8, Meaghan Johnson9 and Kristi Kerrigan10, (1)Marathon, Florida, United States, (2)Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (3)NOAA, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (4)Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commision, Division of Marine Fisheries Management, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (5)Florida Aquarium, Apollo Beach, FL, United States, (6)NOAA, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Key West, FL, United States, (7)Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL, United States, (8)Florida Sea Grant, FL, United States, (9)National Park Service Dry Tortugas, Key West, FL, United States, (10)Department of Environmental Protection Florida, FL, United States
Global observation of coastal shallow water optical properties based on the Planet Dove satellites (641676)
Jiwei Li1, David E Knapp1, Steve Schill2, Chris M Roelfsema3, Stuart R Phinn3, Miles Silman4, Joseph Mascaro5 and Greg Asner1, (1)Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)The Nature Conservancy’s Caribbean Program, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)University of Queensland, Remote Sensing Research Centre, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (4)Wake Forest University, Biology, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, (5)Planet, San Francisco, United States
Real-time Multi-scale Monitoring and Analysis of a Mass Coral Bleaching Event (642408)
Greg Asner1, Christopher Balzotti1, Philip Brodrick1, Rachel Carlson1, Nicholas Fabina1, Shawna Foo1, Patrick Gartell1, Joseph Heckler1, David E Knapp1, Jiwei Li1, Roberta Martin1, Nicholas Vaughn1 and Jamison Gove2, (1)Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
Remote sensing of shallow-water bathymetry: leveraging multispectral ocean color observations (648453)
Jianwei Wei1, Menghua Wang1, Zhongping Lee2, Henry Briceno3 and Xiaolong Yu4, (1)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Unv. Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States, (3)Florida International University, Southeastern Environmental Research Center, Miami, FL, United States, (4)Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Where to begin with creating geomorphic and benthic maps for all global coral reefs? (649972)
Chris M Roelfsema1, Emma Kennedy2, Mitchell B Lyons2, Eva Kovacs2, Rodney Borrego2, Meredith Roe2, Kathryn Markey2, Nicholas James Murray1 and Stuart R Phinn1, (1)University of Queensland, Remote Sensing Research Centre, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (2)University of Queensland, Remote Sensing Research Centre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
