By Supin Wongbusarakum This fall, I traveled to Guam to participate in an energizing Training-of-Trainers (ToT) workshop—for socioeconomic monitoring training—as one of three facilitators. Th...
By Supin Wongbusarakum The importance of socioeconomic monitoring for coastal management and conservation is becoming increasingly acknowledged around the world. Without understanding the impacts...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/socioeconomic-monitoring/
By Supin Wongbusarakum It is an interesting challenge to contemplate future plans for a vast blue seascape, bright with corals and teeming with fish, under florescent lights in a carpeted hotel m...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/sulu-sulawesi-seascape/
By Andrew Gray Something was different on the recent PIFSC Main Hawaiian Islands Reef Fish Survey cruise led by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED). In addition to the usual scuba surveys co...
From June 14 to July 3, 2015, the NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai will be the platform for a research cruise to gather data and improve assessments of the status of coral reef fish populations in the main...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/reef-fish-expedition/
By John Rooney Our seafloor mapping mission began in early May with underwater video and photographic surveys of coral reef habitats along the shores of West Maui, as documented in Seafloor Mappi...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/seafloor-mapping-hawaii-island/
By Kell Bliss On 1 May 2015, four members of the EcoSpatial Information Team (ESI) in the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, of NOAA’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, traveled to Maui to ...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/seafloor-mapping-maui/
By Adel Heenan and Amanda Dillon The Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), in collaboration with scientists from 16 international institutions, recent...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/ecosystem-approach-climate-change/
By Kelvin Gorospe After 15 years of surveying coral reef fishes across the Pacific, the Fish Team at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) has amas...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/five-million-fish-and-counting/
By Kevin Lino Five million… that number has a pleasant vastness to it. Five million of anything seems overwhelming. Try to picture five million fish. Start small and keep expanding. How would t...
By Bernardo Vargas-Ángel With work complete in the U.S. territory of American Samoa, the NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai stopped in the port of Pago Pago Harbor for a short pause between Legs III and IV ...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/surveys-american-samoa/
By Kelvin Gorospe Back in November 2013, Drs. Rusty Brainard and Kelvin Gorospe of PIFSC’s Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) along with colleagues from NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Progr...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/science-and-technology-report/
By Kelvin Gorospe The Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s (PIFSC) Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) recently completed the Phoenix Islands portion of their Pacific Reef Assessment and...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/coral-reef-ecosystem-monitoring/
By Brett Schumacher Declining health of coral reef ecosystems led scientists to search for factors that support reef resilience: the ability of reefs to resist and recover from environmental dist...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/reefs-for-the-future/
By Supin Wongbusarakum With the support of the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project (BOBLME), the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan o...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/eafm-padang-medan/
By Kelvin Gorospe What types of science and technology (S&T) innovations are currently being used or developed to improve our understanding of and ability to manage fisheries? And which of these ...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/science-and-technology-survey/
By Max Sudnovsky Upon the request of the Philippines’ Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), NOAA partnered with the USAID-supported Ecosystems Improved for Sustainable Fisheries (EC...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/cooking-up-a-sustainable-approach/
By Mark Manuel As the CRED marine debris team transits back to Honolulu on the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette, check out some highlights from our successful mission to survey and remove marine debr...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/marine-debris-2014/
By Kevin Lino As a fish nerd (and biologist), I was excited to hear about unusual events occurring along Hawaii’s reefs this summer. While away on another research mission, reports came in from...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/recruits-finding-a-home/
By Charles Young The second stop in the operation of the PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) to recover and process installations and data from locations around Timor-Leste was the western...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/beacou-arms-children/
By Supin Wongbusarakum The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) offered a regional training course called “Essential Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) and Exte...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/essential-eafm-thailand/
By Max Sudnovsky In the early morning on Sept. 16, Molly Timmers, Charles Young, and Max Sudnovsky of the PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) departed Dili, Timor-Leste, on their way to At...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/timor-leste-atauro/
Text and video by Noah Pomeroy I wish we could actually move as fast as we do in this video! In reality, this time-lapse video captures a scuba dive that took place on April 23 over about one hou...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/pagan-climate-station/
By Kevin O’Brien Last month, scientists from the PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), along with scientists from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of...
By Megan Moews-Asher Indonesia’s Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) in July 2013 tasked 13 select individuals across its numerous directorates, along with NGO, university, and cont...
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/indonesia-rpp-effort/