Latest Reports

The Conservation Series is a publication series hosted by the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. It provides a forum to publish reports that focus on complex issues facing the sanctuary system.

Latest Reports

Science for Management

Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Science Review of Artificial Reefs

Examining the Conservation Level of Marine Management Areas within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: How Protected is the Sanctuary?

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function of Shallow Bank Systems within Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS)

Facilitating Research in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Summary of the 2010 Workshop to Inform the Ecosystem-based Management Initiative

Climate Impacts to the Nearshore Marine Environment and Coastal Communities: American Samoa and Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Climate Change Impacts: Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries

Fish and Habitat Community Assessments on North Carolina Shipwrecks: Potential sites for detecting climate change in the Graveyard of the Atlantic

Coastal Ocean Mammal and Bird Education and Research Surveys (BeachCOMBERS), 1997-2007: Ten years of monitoring beached marine birds and mammals in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Reducing the Threat of Ship Strikes on Large Cetaceans in the Santa Barbara Channel Region and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: Recommendations and Case Studies

Dynamics of Hard Substratum Communities Inside and Outside of a Fisheries Habitat Closed Area in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (Gulf of Maine, NW Atlantic)

Stellwagen Bank Marine Historical Ecology Final Report

Variation in Planning-Unit Size and Patterns of Fish Diversity: Implications for Design of Marine Protected Areas

Examples of Ecosystem-Based Management in National Marine Sanctuaries: Moving from Theory to Practice

The Application Of Observing System Data In California Current Ecosystem Assessments

Reconciling Ecosystem-Based Management and Focal Resource Conservation in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument

Caribbean Connectivity: Implications for Marine Protected Area Management

Conservation Science in NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries: Description and Recent Accomplishments

Developing Alternatives for Optimal Representation of Seafloor Habitats and Associated Communities in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

2002 - 03 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Science Report: An Ecosystem Report Card After Five Years of Marine Zoning

Channel Islands Deep Water Monitoring Plan Development Workshop Report

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Area to be Avoided Education and Monitoring Program

A Review of Marine Zones in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

A Review of the Ecological Effectiveness of Subtidal Marine Reserves in Central California

Noise Levels and Sources in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and the St. Lawrence River Estuary

The Impacts of Coastal Protection Structures in California's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Multi-species and Multi-interest Management: an Ecosystem Approach to Market Squid (Loligo opalescens) Harvest in California

A Comparison of Seafloor Habitats and Associated Benthic Fauna in Areas Open and Closed to Bottom Trawling Along the Central California Continental Shelf

Socioeconomics

Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions of Management Strategies and Regulations of the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary by Users and Non-users of the Sanctuary

Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions of Management Strategies and Regulations of FKNMS by Commercial Fishers, Dive Operators, and Environmental Group Members: A Baseline Characterization and 10-year Comparison

The Economic Contribution of Whalewatching to Regional Economies: Perspectives From Two National Marine Sanctuaries

Habitat Mapping

Automated, Objective Texture Segmentation of Multibeam Echosounder Data - Seafloor Survey and Substrate Maps from James Island to Ozette Lake, Washington Outer Coast

Survey report of NOAA Ship McArthur II cruises AR-04-04, AR-05-05 and AR-06-03: Habitat classification of side scan sonar imagery in support of deep-sea coral/sponge explorations at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Habitat Mapping Effort at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary - Current Status and Future Needs

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Habitat Mapping: Survey report and classification of side scan sonar data from surveys HMPR-114-2004-02 and HMPR-116-2005-01

Normalization and Characterization of Multibeam Backscatter: Koitlah Point to Point of the Arches, Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Benthic Habitat Mapping in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Comments on Hydrographic and Topographic LIDAR Acquisition and Merging with Multibeam Sounding Data Acquired in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Grounding Events: Response & Restoration

Lagniappe II Coral Reef Restoration Monitoring Report Monitoring Events 2002 to 2010 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Monroe County, Florida

N-Control Seagrass Restoration Monitoring Report Monitoring Events 2003-2008 Florida Keys National Marine SanMonroe County, Florida

Preliminary Comparison of Natural Versus Model-Predicted Recovery of Vessel-Generated Seagrass Injuries in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

M/V ELPIS Coral Reef Restoration Monitoring Report Monitoring Events 2004-2007 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Monroe County, Florida

M/V ALEC OWEN MAITLAND Coral Reef Restoration Monitoring Report Monitoring Events 2004-2007 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Monroe County, Florida

M/V WELLWOOD Coral Reef Restoration Monitoring Report Monitoring Events 2004-2006 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Monroe County, Florida

M/V CONNECTED Coral Reef Restoration Monitoring Report Monitoring Events 2004-2005 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Monroe County, Florida

M/V JACQUELYN L Coral Reef Restoration Monitoring Report Monitoring Events 2004-2005 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Monroe County, Florida

M/V WAVE WALKER Coral Reef Restoration Baseline Monitoring Report - 2004 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Monroe County, Florida

Pre-Construction Coral Survey of the M/V Wellwood Grounding Site

Biogeography

A Bioregional Classification of the Continental Shelf of Northeastern North America for Conservation Analysis and Planning Based on Representation

Biogeographic Analysis of the Tortugas Ecological Reserve

Distribution and Sighting Frequency of Reef Fishes in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Symposia & Workshops

First Biennial Ocean Climate Summit: Finding Solutions for San Francisco Bay Area's Coast and Ocean

A Scientific Forum on the Gulf of Mexico: The Islands in the Stream Concept

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary: Proceedings of the 1998 Research Workshop, Seattle, Washington

Workshop on Marine Mammal Research & Monitoring in the National Marine Sanctuaries

CONNECTIVITY Science, People and Policy in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Living Resource Studies

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, Okeanos Explorer Cruise, 2011, Taxonomic Guide

Chemical Contaminants, Pathogen Exposure and General Health Status of Live and Beach-Cast Washington Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni)

Davidson Seamount Taxonomic Guide

Observations of Deep Coral and Sponge Assemblages in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Washington

A Pilot Study of Hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus Walbaum 1792) Movement in the Conch Reef Research Only Area (Northern Florida Keys)

Movement of yellowtail snapper and black grouper in the northern Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary as determined by acoustic telemetry

An annotated bibliography of diet studies of fish of the southeast United States and Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary

Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary: A Rapid Assessment of Coral, Fish, and Algae Using the AGRRA Protocol