Forecasting coral disease outbreaks across the tropical Pacific Ocean using satellite-derived data (Old ID 26648)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
The project will develop better models of coral disease outbreak risk across the western tropical Pacific Ocean and embed these into the NOAA Coral Reef Watch decision support system (DSS). The current DSS, at ~50 km SST data, assesses coral disease risk for the Great Barrier Reef and Hawaii for a single disease type. Improvements will be to: increase the spatial resolution to 5 km, and expand to several coral diseases, host species and regions; incorporate short-term SST forecasts; incorporate ocean colour data, where appropriate; and undertake additional targeted coral disease observations.
Date
01 Apr 2019 - 31 Mar 2021
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Coral Disease;NOAA Coral Reef Watch;NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecas;Satellite Data;Pacific Ocean;University of Hawaii
Funding Body
Global Science & Technology Inc.
Amount
88531.73
Project Team
N/A