Ocean and Coastal Management

Mesocosm Metabolism response to short-term sediment accumulation at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

Quantitative evolution of coastline categorization of Moorea Island from 1977 to 2018. At Moorea, the coastline is characterized by seven main habitat categories (Aubanel et al. 1999): 1/ Rocks and broken stones in their original positions (the rocks, either basaltic or carbonate, are over 50 cm in diameter and broken stones are 5-50 cm in size), 2/ White sand beach (at least 95% of which comprises coral sediments under 1 cm in size and the intertidal zone is not encumbered with vegetation), 3/ Black sand beach (same as white sand but with sediments of basaltic nature), 4/ Muddy areas or herbaceous zones, possibly with mangroves, 5/ Coarse mud-and-sand and detrital substrate with high vegetation area where Cocos nucifera, Hibiscus tiliaceus, Casuarina equisetifolia and Guettarda speciosa grow, 6/ Conglomerate and beach-rock and 7/ Anthropogenic changes (through walls, rocks and/or embankments).

The performance scoring is articulated around six principles of sustainability as called by Gallagher (2010) Coastal Sustainability Standard’(CoSS). The principles are Planning, Participation, Communication, Integration, Responsibility, and Balance,

Abundance and estimated size data on 186 species of fish encountered across four sites at the Misali Island Conservation Area, PECCA, Pemba, Tanzania

This is the dataset including processed and original data(wave, tide, geomorphology, erosion/accretion rate) that were used in coastal vulnerability index calculations. It includes shapefiles to calculate the CVI for defined variables and the Python codes for vulnerability category distribution.

The two Excel databases include the data, provided by OCMPAC members, describing their in-kind contributions to MPA management. There is one Excel workbook for each of the study years (2013-2014 and 2014-2015). Data have been scrubbed to protect the anonymity of OCMPAC members; we removed organizations' and individuals' names from the database and revised the qualitative descriptions of contributions as needed to remove identifying information.

Polling and a scale-intensity-consequence approach (SICA) were used in an expert elicitation survey to rank risk sources and perceived vulnerabilities of habitats associated with seabed nodule, sulfide, and crust mineral resources. Results from the survey are provided here, together with analytical methods used to summarize the data.

Survey data for the paper "Knowledge integration in Marine Spatial Planning: A practitioners’ view on decision support tools with special focus on Marxan", for details please the manuscript and its questionnaire.

Conch data and linear model code using R for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago Cays Marine park and Union Island

ArcGIS model file for calculating area coverage of geomorphic features and benthic habitats within protected areas