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Coral Reef Monitoring in the OECS and Tobago, 2007-2009
Marcia
Creary Ford
University of the West Indies - Centre for Marine Sciences
Environmental Data Manager
Mona Campus
Kingston 7
JM
marcia.creary@uwimona.edu.jm
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/cms/ccdc/
0000-0002-4645-1662
Marcia
Creary Ford
University of the West Indies - Centre for Marine Sciences
Environmental Data Manager
Mona Campus
Kingston 7
JM
marcia.creary@uwimona.edu.jm
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/cms/ccdc/
0000-0002-4645-1662
2019-05-10
eng
The objective of the Coral Reef Monitoring for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Tobago project was to strengthen the coral reef monitoring network in the region and to conduct an assessment of the coral reefs in these participating countries. In 2007 an agreement was made between the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), the executing agency for the Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Changes (MACC) project, and the Centre for Marine Sciences (CMS) to implement this monitoring programme which was conducted during the period 2007-2009.
Samplingevent
Eastern Caribbean
coral reef
video monitoring
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
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The following islands in the Eastern Caribbean: Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago.
-64.094
-60.469
19.104
10.921
2007
2009
order
Scleractinia
Corals
order
Alcyonacea
Gorgonians
phylum
Porifiera
Sponges
kingdom
Chromista
Algae
phylum
Chlorophyta
Algae
notPlanned
Marcia
Creary Ford
University of the West Indies - Centre for Marine Sciences
Environmental Data Manager
Mona Campus
Kingston 7
JM
marcia.creary@uwimona.edu.jm
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/cms/ccdc/
0000-0002-4645-1662
Coral Reef Monitoring for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Tobago (2007-2009)
Marcia
Creary Ford
0000-0002-4645-1662
principalInvestigator
Peter
Gayle
originator
Peter
Wilson-Kelly
originator
Sean
Green
originator
Omar
Spence
originator
Hugh
Small
originator
Brent
Simon
originator
Mark
Archibald
originator
Candy
Stoute
originator
Jullan
Defoe
originator
Jerry
Mitchell
originator
Craston
Isaac
originator
Derrick
Theophile
originator
Steve
Nimrod
originator
Graeme
Brown
originator
Lynn
Wilkins
originator
Kia
Wulf
originator
Laudiana
Laurence
originator
Hazelann
Prospere
originator
Sophia
Steele
originator
Lucille
Grant
originator
Addison
Titus
originator
Jonathan
Gomez
originator
Kahlil
Hassanali
originator
Kirwin
Sampson
originator
Kirwin
Redman
originator
Paul
Phillip
originator
Denise
Henry
processor
Denise
Chin
processor
Ivanna
Kenny
processor
Loureene
Jones Smith
processor
Nicole
Sang
processor
The objective of this project was to expand the coral reef monitoring programme started under the CPACC (Caribbean Planning for Global Climate Change) Project to the countries of the Eastern Caribbean. The Centre for Marine Sciences (CMS) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Jamaica was contracted by the MACC (Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change) Project to oversee this process. Sixteen participants from seven Eastern Caribbean countries (Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Tobago) were trained in Saint Lucia, in the coral reef video monitoring protocol developed under Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Climate Change (CPACC) pilot project during September 2007. Following the training, each country selected a monitoring site and monitoring was conducted at these sites under the supervision of resources persons from the CMS. The videotapes were processed and analyzed at the CMS. This data set provides the data on the percentage of coral species as well as gorgonian, sponges, zoanthids and algae collected at the selected monitoring sites in each country.
The publishing of this data set was supported through a small grant from GBIF/BID
Coral reef monitoring in the OECS and Tobago was implemented through a MOU between the UWI-CMS and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the World Bank.
The study area was comprised of seven islands located in the Eastern Caribbean; Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago. Each country selected coral reef areas for monitoring based on guidelines outline in the site selection protocol
Monitoring took place under the supervision of the Roving Team Leaders (RTLs) from the CMS in collaboration with local resources persons and volunteers. Each RTL was assigned responsibility for two countries. Each country selected coral reef areas (Operational Areas) for monitoring based on the guidelines outlined in the site selection protocol, taking into consideration the use to which the data would be put, the peculiarities of the area and any constraints that might be encountered during monitoring. Each country was requested to installed 20 permanent transects, each 20m long, at the selected sites. The video monitoring protocol was based on the Aronson method that utilized a high resolution video camera to video tape the substrate. The resultant videotapes were reviewed to ensure that clarity and resolution were satisfactory and then labelled and sent to the CMS for processing and analysis. The Pinnacle Studio™ software was used to capture discrete non‐overlapping adjacent images for each transect. The estimate the benthic cover from images was determined using the Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe Ver 3.5) software.
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dataset
Creary Ford M, M. Archibald, G. Brown, D. Chin, J. Defoe, P. Gayle, J. Gomez, L. Grant, S. Green, D. Henry, C. Issac, L. Jones-Smith, I. Kenny, L. Laurence, J. Mitchell, S. Nimrod, H. Prospere, N. Sang, B. Simon, H. Small, O. Spence, S. Steele, C. Stoute, D. Theophile, A. Titus, L. Wilkins, P. Wilson-Kelly, K. Wulf (2018): Coral Reef Monitoring in the OECS and Tobago, 2007-2009. v1.1. Caribbean Coastal Data Centre, Centre for Marine Sciences. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=macc_coral_monitoring&v=1.1
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