NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP).NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).The Visualization of Florida's Coral Reef video developed by David Bock (XSEDE) shows a dramatic rise in Florida's coastal population followed by a general decline in coral cover across the majority of long-term monitoring sites monitored by the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project and the Southeast Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project ( Video Transcript).
The full-length interviews for each of the stakeholders who participated in this project are in the process of being archived with the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service's Voices Oral History Archive in the following collection: Coral Cover Video View the Voices from Florida's Changing Coral Reefs story map (created by the NCEI Story Map Team) to hear first-hand accounts of the challenges and successes facing Florida's Coral Reefs from the scientists, divers, and fishers committed to its recovery. Kuffner) Voices from Florida's Changing Coral Reefs - Story Mapįlorida's Coral Reefs are incredibly unique and beautiful, but they are also rapidly changing. The past several decades have seen a dramatic decrease in coral cover including a decline in large reef building corals. These interviews were combined with visualizations and maps produced from data acquired by regional stakeholders and taken from the NOAA archive to form a human-centered and approachable retrospective of Florida's reefs over time presented as an ESRI Story Map. NCEI staff conducted interviews to collect firsthand accounts from scientists, divers, and others with firsthand knowledge of how reef conditions have changed in Florida. Home > Activities > Featured Projects > Florida Reef Tract Heritage ProjectĬombining Oral Histories with Data Visualization to Illustrate Decades of Change in the Florida Reef TractĪs part of a NOAA Heritage Project, National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) staff partnered with various organizations to present an audio and visual retrospective of the Florida Reef Tract over the last few decades.