Current Field Work
2025 NCRMP will take place March ~ June in the Mariana Archipelago with an opportunistic stop in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument at Wake Island. See our photo gallery and download research mission flyers below.
Survey Area
We conduct surveys in U.S. Pacific Islands regions: Hawaiian Archipelago, Mariana Archipelago, American Samoa, and Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. Our longest running program, Pacific NCRMP, was previously called the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP). Starting in 2000, Pacific RAMP conducted surveys every 2 years to assess reef health. In 2011, NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) expanded the effort into NCRMP, aiming to track coral reef conditions across all U.S. waters using standardized methods. By 2012, the Pacific NCRMP shifted to surveying each region every 3 years.
Outreach
Links to story maps, photo galleries, and blogs from past missions as well as more information on the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) and our Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD).
Contact us
This website is maintained by the Data Services Team (nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov) on a PIFSC github repository using minimal-mistakes jekyll theme.