Benthic Habitat Mapping

NCCOS is producing benthic/seafloor habitat maps to help coastal managers assess, protect, and preserve the condition of coastal ocean ecosystems. We have developed maps and related products (e.g., imagery, publications) for areas in the Pacific and Atlantic, including the Caribbean.

• American Samoa, Guam, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
• Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Fish Bay, Coral Bay, and the St. Thomas East End Reserve in the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Florida Coral Reef Ecosystems to Support Reef Conservation and Management
• Insular Shelf South of St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Main Hawaiian Islands
• Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands
• Mapping Deep Corals in the U.S. South Atlantic to Conserve Vulnerable Fish Habitat and Ecosystems
• Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
• Palmyra Atoll
• Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for a Baseline Inventory
• Seafloor Characterization of the U.S. Caribbean
• Shallow-water Benthic Habitat Mapping of Northeast Puerto Rico and Culebra Island
• Southwest Puerto Rico
• St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands National Park and Virgin Islands Reef National Monument
• The Republic of Palau
• Tutuila, American Samoa, Shoreline to shelf-edge