Forecasting coral disease outbreaks across the tropical Pacific Ocean using satellite-derived data (Old ID 26648)
Principal Investigator
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.
01 Apr 2019 - 31 Mar 2021
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Coral Disease;NOAA Coral Reef Watch;NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecas;Satellite Data;Pacific Ocean;University of Hawaii
Global Science & Technology Inc.
88531.73
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