Protecting coral reefs through research, management, and outreach.
Many of the Earth's greatest coral reef ecosystems are directly threatened by human activity through local and global threats such as overfishing and climate change, respectively. We aim to further improve management practices for coral reefs by determining the ecological health of, and threats to corals reefs in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM). The PRIMNM serves as a living laboratory where the effects of climate change can be studied on a relatively pristine coral reef ecosystem. Our results will serve as a comparison to reefs heavily impacted by human disturbance today as well as those that will be impacted by climate change in the future.
Photo Source: Jim E. Maragos, courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Photo Source: Enric Sala, courtesy of National Geographic
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Find out more about the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and the area's coral reefs
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Check out our project's main findings and resulting documents, all available for download
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Headline Photo Source: NOAA
