Project Report: NOAA Ship Rainier, RA-22-01, Rainier Integrates Charting, Hydrography, and Reef Demographics (RICHARD) Project Report RA-22-01

Personnel from the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) and the Science Operations Division (SOD) of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (CIMAR), and the NOAA Diving Center (NDC), along with partners from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and University of Guam (UoG) conducted interdisciplinary surveys of oceanographic and benthic parameters related to climate change in coastal waters across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as part of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Plan (NCRMP). 2022 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) PIFSC (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center) CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System) NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information) OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) AOML (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) CIMAR (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research) OMAO (Office of Marine and Aviation Operations) Submitted https://doi.org/10.25923/zrsh-ec75 Public Domain 2295