Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment

This is the parent project for metadata held by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) Biological Monitoring teams (fish and benthic), that are not part of the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program.

This folder is used to organize metadata held by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) Biological Monitoring teams (fish and benthic) and serves as a template used to develop metadata records for related data sets that are not part of the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program.

Mariana Archipelago

American Samoa

Hawaiian Archipelago

Pacific Remote Island Areas

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Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) Data Sharing Recommendations, version 9.0 updated August 12, 2015:

CREP welcomes the opportunity to collaborate on research issues contributing to the scientific basis for better management of marine ecosystems. CREP has a very diverse set of field activities that generates large volumes of data using an array of data collection protocols.

The following recommendations are for your consideration as you use this data:

1) Data analyses should take all field exigencies into account. The most effective way to do this would be active collaboration with CREP principal investigators.

2) In all presentations, product releases, or publications using data generated by CREP, proper acknowledgement of both CREP and the individuals responsible for data collection is expected. Citing the DOI (if available) is preferred, a non-DOI example is listed below.

3) If you collect or generate data for the same study areas, CREP requests that you share relevant information on complimentary data collections.

4) Those receiving data are strongly urged to inform the CREP Data Management Team of any errors and discrepancies that are discovered during the course of using these data. They are further urged to bring to the attention of the Team all problems and difficulties encountered in using these data. This information is necessary in order to improve the collections and to facilitate more efficient and economical data processing and retrieval. The users are asked to supply copies of any missing data that may be located, and to provide information as to significant subsets and special aggregations of data that are developed in using the material provided.

Example citation:

"This publication makes use of data products provided by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with funding support from the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). The analysis and interpretations presented here are solely that of the current authors”

Data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive, accession # .

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Please cite CREP when using the data.

Example

Cite as: <Author(s) Last Name, First Name>; Coral Reef Ecosystem Program; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (<YYYY>). <Metadata Title> (NCEI Accession <#>). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Unpublished Dataset. [access date]

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PIFSC Oracle Database view: <VIEW NAME>, or MS Access

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