All right. Welcome, everyone.
So just going to give people a few minutes to join and then we'll get started.
All right.
I think we've got a pretty good turnout.
Maybe a few more people trickling in so I can go ahead and get started.
So apologies.
I don't have my camera on.
I'm trying to turn it on, but it's not working.
So you guys just get to
hear my voice for today.
I'm sure we'll we'll see each other's faces soon when we have to
have our one on one meetings, but more on that soon.
So just a reminder that
this webinar is going to be recorded.
I'll go ahead and share that with folks as soon as I can.
Sometimes it takes about a week for us to get it up on our
our NOAA website, but if you need it sooner, just let me know.
And I'm happy to to share it via Google Drive.
But anyway, so good morning everyone.
Thanks for joining my name as Lieutenant Jen Kraus I am a NOAA Corps Officer
with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, or NCCOS.
And I'm located out here in sunny Silver Spring, Maryland.
So coming to you from the East Coast.
So thanks for all for joining.
Today we'll be talking about a collaborative effort we are spearheading
to determine agency priorities for mapping coral
reef ecosystems in American Samoa.
This project is funded by NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation
Program in collaboration with NCCOS
and more and more on that collaboration during this webinar.
A few minutes before we get began, as I said, this will be recorded and shared.
For those who can't make it,
the point of this webinar
is just to really be a kind of an introductory webinar, just to kind of
give you insight into why we're doing this project,
how it's going to work and answer any questions.
So pretty, pretty straight forward.
Nothing too crazy today.
And I'll go over kind of the next steps for this project
and how we're going to get you involved and
yeah, I don't anticipate us taking the whole hour for this,
but we certainly can use that if you guys have a lot of questions
or anything to discuss.
But I see is going through this fairly efficiently.
Please ask questions during the webinar, the raise your hand.
I should be able to hear that. You can type your question to the chat as well
if you don't want to
come on video or anything.
So I might see it as we're going along.
If not, I'll get to it at the end, but I'll try to keep an eye on that as well.
And of course we'll have
time at the end to to chat as well.
If anyone wants to ask questions then.
All right.
So I'll go ahead and get started.
So just for today's
agenda, we'll first go over the project's objectives, lay out
the groundwork for the goals of this project.
I'll then go over the project area
and the general methods for this prioritization process.
Some of you may or may not have been involved
in this type of GIS platform that we use.
So we'll give you kind of a brief background on that.
I'll give a demonstration of the Web tool
that will be using to input your data needs.
And finally, we'll go over the timeline and next steps.
And, of course, like I said, we'll have some time at the end for
if there's any other outstanding questions that you guys have.
So this effort is part of the CRCP's multidisciplinary approach
and as part of their cross-cutting approach
that involves many areas of expertise from several NOAA offices.
So this effort will provide the necessary information and enabling conditions
for effective coral reef conservation and management.
So by identifying any gaps in existing data,
we can determine high priority locations and make sound recommendations
on the best places to prioritize for future mapping efforts
and locations identified during
this process will inform future planning.
But funding decisions are not a part of this project or anything.
And this is, like I said, more
laying the groundwork.
So mapping efforts or funding is not guaranteed for any of these areas.
This is just providing the recommendations for,
you know, for future mapping for all stakeholders as well.
So all the data we share with everyone.
So once we receive everyone's input, we'll be able to create
a spatial framework that summarizes participating agencies
overlapping priorities
and coupled with an inventory of existing high quality
and contemporary mapping data, will be able to show and provide
the necessary information for coral management organizations.
to make any informed decisions on where to allocate funding to meet needs
of not only their own organization, but overlapping
needs of partnering agencies as well.
So this is the basic objectives and outcomes for this project.
CRCP saw that there was a need to kind of conduct this sort of analysis
and not only use the data themselves potentially for future planning efforts,
but also to provide this the service to to local stakeholders as well.
I think I saw Francisco you, I think he's on the call.
If you have anything to add,
please do.
If not, I will continue along.
Thank you, Jen.
I will just like to add that
most of these efforts are
focused towards management actions and management
and supporting management of the resources
and that's one of the main
focus or objectives
and looking into the outcomes into the future.
Thank you so much.
And Francisco.
For those of you who don't know him, he's with CRCP and he's been a crucial,
key part of getting this project funded and off the ground.
So he's been key in getting this project going.
So thank you for the extra notes.
Francisco and yeah, I hope he'll be able to provide any to be specific questions.
And then I guess if there are any.
So moving ahead.
So here I just wanted to show a brief overview of participating agencies.
I think I got all of them on the slide.
There might have been a few out
at the last minute that I didn't get up here, so I apologize.
But these are basically the participating agencies
or groups or coral managers, if you will.
So these are the folks who are our regional advisory team,
has helped us identify these organizations who are crucial in
making the region's coral reef management decisions to make sure we're engaging
with the right people.
So our advisory team consists of Francisco
from the CRCP side, and we also have Jewel, who is our local American
Samoa liaison, who I believe most of you probably know.
So she's going to really help with local engagement and all that stuff.
So I'm sure you'll be hearing from myself and from her as well as
we go through this process.
So this list or this group of people
was created by evaluating many levels of coral management.
So from scientists who provide critical scientific information
to inform management decisions to the stakeholders and managers themselves.
So, you know,
we try to include anyone and everyone that would have any kind of data needs
when it comes to coral reef management or something related to it. So,
you know, that's most of the if not everyone here today.
So thank you all
who have agreed to participate in
are here interested to learn more
because I think this will really, really help everyone that you see up here.
All the agencies should be benefiting from this.
So this slide just shows
the four basic steps used in this prioritization process.
So this we've already conducted in Guam and CNMI
and my are wrapping that one up right now, Florida, Puerto Rico, U.S.
Virgin Islands and Hawaii. So
that's just to name a few.
My office, NCCOS, have used
these methods in many, many different areas from the Great Lakes
all up and down the East Coast and Florida and Caribbean and the Pacific as well.
So tride and true and these methods
work really well for us in getting
this data from local stakeholders.
So I just want to briefly go over each step, just to give you
an idea of how we're conducting this prioritization.
So the first step, like I said, is to identify
groups or agencies that were shown in the previous slide.
So these are people whose input is crucial for meeting the goal of this project.
And this step
pretty much has already been completed, which is how we got to this point.
Why you guys are all here interested in listening and on this webinar
and you know, all the POC's we've reached out to
who have agreed to participate on behalf.
so that's, that's step one.
Second step is to identify who within these groups will be participating.
And that's everyone here today.
And this third step is for each participating group
to input their collective spatial priorities or data needs.
So that's kind of why we're really here is is for the step three.
You know, this is the most involved part of this process.
So this for this project, this will be done
by having one on one meetings with each participating group.
So again, I say groups because,
you know, this is a mishmash of agencies and divisions and all that stuff.
So when I say group, I just mean, you know, your
your agency or your group, our division that you work with.
And so,
yeah, we'll have one on
one meetings with each each of your groups,
you and your colleagues in the POC that we've identified
and already reached out to, we'll just have a virtual call and
we'll go ahead and input your data needs into this online tool, which I will show.
But you know, the point of these meetings, just to have a discussion
with you all and get an idea for what your data needs are,
and then we'll translate it into the online tool
so that we can kind of do a more quantitative analysis.
So the final part of the step is to follow up
with participants, you all, to review their inputs
and also to gather more detailed narrative on your mapping needs.
So this can be specific Reef areas, projects, mandates
or anything else not captured by was input into the tool.
As you can
see, you'll see that the tool can only capture so much, you know.
And so when it comes to the real nitty gritty specifics of why you need data
in these areas, that's
when we're going to have more more of a detailed discussion later.
And so once the spatial priorities are all into the tool,
we download them, analyze them,
and this will eventually become
like the results in future recommendations
summarized in a report and shared with CRCP.
And in all of you, all the local management agencies and partners
who can use this information for planning and supporting future projects.
So we usually share the results
as soon as we get them, kind of as preliminary results.
And then the report comes much later.
But we do share those results as soon as we can.
And yeah, everything's made public as well.
Okay, that's, that's it for that.
So just real quick, the project area.
So this entire project spans
from f Y 21 to 23.
So kind of taking a step back and looking at
the main overall objective of this
project was to cover all seven of the U.S.
coral reef jurisdictions.
And so the first of which that we've already completed,
Florida, Puerto Rico, Usvi and Hawaii are all completed.
The Hawaii report is being buttoned up right now.
It's a NOAA technical memorandum.
Once that gets out, you know, that'll be made public.
And so I'll try to share it with this group as well.
If anybody here has any interests in Hawaii,
you'll have it.
And we're currently finishing up gathering inputs
for Guam and CNMI, and now we're focusing this effort on American Samoa.
So we're
only focusing this effort on shallow, coral reef areas.
So depths of 0 to 40 meters.
This graphic here shows the 40
meter depth contour to that red line.
We know it's really close to shore, but we,
you know, do do recognize that there's a need for shallow for coral reef areas
and that's why we are focusing this effort on just those regions.
And so this
this surrounds all federally managed waters.
So for American Samoa, that includes the islands you see here
including Swains Island and Rose Atoll.
Okay.
So just some basic details of the web tool itself.
Like I said, when we get together
for a one on one meetings with with all of your groups,
I can be managing this tool
and kind of running it and with your direction on where to put coins.
But I just wanted to kind of give you a better understanding
of how the tool works so that you can give me,
you know, sort of be easier to to give me feedback and direction.
You know what we're doing and you understand what we're doing.
So in general, what we do is
we give each agency or group of participants
a set number of virtual coins, we call them.
These coins are then placed into grid cells to indicate
when and where data is needed.
So when
you know the more coins you input into a grid cell, the sooner you need data.
And then where is obviously the spatial component. Within the tool
There's also dropdown lists indicate intended coral reef management uses
and the specific mapping data requirements
that new data would have could potentially fill.
And I'll provide more information on what these are.
We've got a dropdown list with some definitions
that you can look at ahead of time and I can help you
kind of navigate which one would be best for your group if you don't know.
So each participating group
or agency has the same number of coins.
So for example, the National Park Service, they'll have 50 coins,
the EPA will have 50 coins.
So each group will have their own
set of 50 coins that they can spend however they want.
The number of coins is determined by the number of cells in each region.
So that's kind of how we get 50.
Not to get into the math too much, but that's just kind of how we standardize
it across all the different regions of different sizes
and different areas.
The web tool will also have
all this information as well and tracks kind of how many coins you have left
and how many you've already input or allocated.
So you know, we don't have to do the math in our heads.
So yeah.
And then we also set a limit on how many coins can be input into a cell,
which is five.
So this limit basically
is just to encourage people to select more than one area or cell.
So that's, that's yeah, that's it.
So as I said, to indicate how quickly data is needed,
the more coins you input, the higher the data needs are.
So for American Samoa, if you put the max of five coins
into a cell, that means you need data there urgently or soon as possible.
So that's kind of how that works.
And we do have instructions.
But again, I'll be in all these meetings and will pretty much run the tool
with your direction.
So here
just wanted to give a perspective of the grid cell size
using Tutuila as an example, although the grid sizes may seem
large compared to, you know, certain features or specific colonies
of corals in order to get an overall idea.
Spatial priorities,
we needed to kind of take a step back and look at a slightly larger resolution.
So we went with a
hexagon grid that's about a square mile in area
or a kilometer per per side.
So we recognize that only a portion of the cell
may be of interest, such as specific reefs.
But our objective is to just become aware of important areas that are data poor.
And this is just one piece that will help us
start to focus in on these priority areas.
We'll look at existing data and all that stuff as well.
So, you know, if one hexagon cell comes out
as important, we're not going to just map, you know,
we're not going to recommend just mapping within the confines of that hexagon cell.
It's more of
just kind of getting us more information on these areas that our data poor.
So and
to that note as while they're also cells containing a lot of land.
But again, because of the way the grid fits together,
we need that to kind of capture the coastal edge.
So we're keeping the cells.
But again, you know, if these cells come up as high priority,
well, we'll make sure that to get more information and
what data gaps we're trying to fill.
All right.
So here, as I mentioned before,
are the dropdown options that we'll provide in the tool
these will be input with the coins into the selected cells.
So you'll select the cell, put however many coins you want in there,
and then you'll select these options to go along with it.
And so this just tells us more information on
how you
will use this data to inform coral reef management decisions.
So that's the first option of dropdowns for management use.
And then the second dropdown option is map
product requirements, which tells us what kind of product is needed
and what are your product requirements you're trying to achieve. So,
you know, kind of do your best guess if you really don't know if none of these
are, you know, really speaking to you, we can definitely work through some and
kind of see what would be the best option for you if you're not sure.
But yeah, take a look at these before we have our one on one meetings
and then we'll try to try
to get there together.
There's also instructions
which I'll share out before our next call, and you can find more detailed
descriptions of each of these in the instructions as well. So
the list
of MAP product requirements is also listed in order from large scale resolution.
So more regional data coarser imagery to finer scale
data such as DEMs photo mosaics and other high resolution products.
So that's kind of another way to look at this if that's helpful.
And ultimately this type of information is is crucial
in understanding exactly what kind of data and products are needed,
why they're needed to help with collaborations
in project planning.
And if you have these slides,
I think I attached slides to the
the meeting so you can click on the link here
to view the instructions if you want.
Okay.
So in the background data is or the web.
So in the web tool, we also provide an inventory
of mapping data to help participants with their decision making.
So that's kind of one of the the big key elements of this effort is to first
go through and see
what data exists, how old is the data and kind of try
to represent it in a way that would be helpful for participants
choose cells and make decisions and also to, you know, kind of also provide
a service of here's existing data and planned data as well and plan mapping projects.
So I'll show you where that is in the Web tool.
We also have it on our hub page as well for anyone to view.
So this is all public.
This basically includes all the high quality benthic
mapping data and other relevant data sets that can be used to help with your input.
So we have habitat maps in here as well.
This is all again, public data.
And if it's not public yet, we try to represent it
in in some way like a footprint or something. So,
you know, we focus more on more contemporary data.
So usually 2000 or later, I know there's
a much, much older data out here, but we we didn't include that in this
because we didn't think it was too relevant. So
and I'll go over kind of how to view this
when I do the Web tool demo.
Okay.
So now I'm going to start off the kind of demo portion
I'll pause for just a second while
I bring up the Hub and I'll put the link in the chat.
If anyone has any questions on anything I went over,
feel free to type it in the chat.
I don't think I see anything.
All right,
so let me put this in.
Yes, I think I see someone's hand
It's Archie.
Just a quick question on the
hexagons that you had up there.
You said that the dimensions are about a mile.
A kilometer?
Oh, yes,
Yes. The
so that it looks like that will encompass both
federal and territorial waters, Is that correct?
It should be just it should be the federally managed lands.
I don't think the is because we're within the 40 meter
contour bounds.
I don't think we we go out to far from shore. So
yeah it should be just the
the federally and territorial
managed lands. Yep.
Okay yeah.
All right
so I just cut and pasted into the chat
a link to the Hub.
So this is kind of where we're keeping everything for this project as we go.
Since we've been doing this for seven different jurisdictions
now, we wanted a place that people can go that's public facing,
hopefully user friendly, that people can
view everything that we've done.
So this
first page I'll just run through real quick.
So just super basic information, background
kind of what we're doing, how we're doing it.
Most of everything.
I've already gone over with you all today.
There's some links and upcoming dates, so if you want to view past webinars,
those links are here.
So we've got intro webinars,
which is basically what today's webinar is.
And then
there's also some results, webinars that's on the bottom row.
If you wanted to view the recording
when we presented the results for the project.
So those are all there, you should be able to click
on the link and watch those webinars if you want.
So at the top there's three links.
The first one is the mapping inventory.
So this is where you can view through this web page
the mapping inventory datasets that we've compiled. So
on the left here, there's legend.
So if you have any
any surfaces on that will pop up on the legend here.
So you can look at all of the bathymetry layers
We've collected, the habitat maps and then we also have some just
other boundary layers that we found online that we wanted to include,
you know, the EEZ
marine protected area inventory,
that kind of stuff that we thought might be helpful
if you don't want to view it through this interface here.
Again, this should be public
and everyone should be able to view it just as I am now.
If you wanted to view it and the web map, you can click on that
button there.
If if you're familiar with ArcGIS online,
this is maybe a little bit more familiar to
to some of you. So
this is just same data, just a different way to view it
if you're, you know, more comfortable with this.
And then if you scroll down, we have all the inventories
from previous jurisdictions as well, Guam and CNMI we did together.
So they're kind of lumped here.
And then then Hawaii and yeah,
so you can scroll down and see the rest of them. So,
so all that is there.
The next tab up at the top are the results.
So there's a couple of ways that you can review the results
so you can view it in a ArcGIS online dashboard,
so I'll just pull it up real quick.
So this is kind of what we went over for.
The if you watched the webinar for the results, we go through
kind of how to navigate this dashboard and view all the different layers.
But in general, yeah,
if you wanted to kind of click around and, and explore the data sets
this way, we're going to do the same for American Samoa.
So, you know, we just wanted to provide it
as an easy way to view the data.
You can also just download the data as well
if you want to input it into ArcPro or ArcMap on your own desktop
or actually us online and view it that way.
So there's a couple ways we read the data.
And again, if you scroll down, you'll see
all the different jurisdictions we've completed
and then if there's a report, you can also click on the link there
and it'll take you to the online, the report online.
So like I said Hawaii,
Hawaii is almost complete.
So link for that will be up soon, hopefully in the next week even maybe.
And then for
for American Samoa, we're going to be doing
a report that also includes the results from Guam and CNMI
they are going to be
separate efforts obviously they are and but we wanted to kind of lump them all
into a one big Pacific report, essentially.
So that'll come up towards the end of the year.
But like I said, we'll we'll share the results with everyone
as soon as they're ready.
And the next tab
is for the Web tool itself.
So if you wanted to click so
I encourage you to click on this and explore.
This is what we're going to go over when we have our one on one meeting.
So I'm not going to spend too much time on this.
So the way that'll
kind of work is, is I'll be driving the web tool
and you guys will
just kind of each group will direct me to where you want your coins to go
so that we can have more of a discussion on what your needs are.
And I can answer any questions as well.
I find that to be pretty helpful just to have these meetings
and kind of do these these mini
yeah, these mini chats.
So but you can click on this link and so view most of what this tool has to offer.
So this basic splash page.
So I'm just going to kind of go over a few functions
just so when we go over this,
when we have our one on one meetings, you kind of understand what we're doing.
So all these
background layers are integrated into this web tool.
So, you know, this is another way you can view it if you wanted to,
to look at this this is all public facing so you can go through and click
on any of, you know, habitat maps.
It zoomed out pretty far just because we wanted to include
Swain's Island and Rose Atoll.
But yeah, so you can you can zoom into area of interest
and turn on all these layers if it's helpful for you.
And same thing with the legend
Whatever surface you have on will show up in the legend as well.
So over here on the left, there's a few other buttons that might be helpful.
There's a bookmark button.
So if you wanted to get to some of the islands or atolls
a little bit quicker instead of scrolling through, you could just click on those.
It'll take you directly to it or just back to the
home overview, if you will.
There is an add data button.
So if we're going through this exercise with you
and you realize there's a data set that would be really important
for your decision making in this process, we can certainly add
that using this button.
So that's, that's always an option as well.
The Base Map gallery, if you're familiar with ArcGIS Online
or even ArcPro listing of all your standard base maps,
some are more useful than others.
I don't know if the mid-century map is useful,
but if it is, we have a way to make that happen.
So I think oceans is the default.
Or maybe it's base map.
But anyway, bunch of different options.
The NOAA
ENC charts can be a helpful one
and maybe even more detailed contour maps. So
there is the measurement tool
for, you know, if you need to measure something.
And then last but not least is this prioritization tool.
So if if anybody here
clicks on this, you're probably not going to have access.
We like I said, I'll go ahead and drive this part of the tool,
but I just wanted to kind of show you what it's going to look like
and how we're going to go through allocating coins and how that works.
So I just need to sign in.
And there's always an option to
if we meet and, you know, don't
don't complete all of our inputs.
You know, the there's always the option.
I can give you guys access to your coins as well and
and then
you can access this web tool.
So I'm not sure why it's not showing up.
This worked yesterday.
So let me refresh and try again.
All right.
That looks better. Phew.
All right.
So this is just a test grid that we have set up.
You can see those are already some grid cells that are colored.
So one benefit to this is it saves all of your input.
So, you know, you can always leave and come back and everything is saved.
You don't have to redo everything.
So again, each grid is going to be unique
to the group or agency and
you know, there won't be any overlap with anyone else's input.
So I'll just go real quick through how to kind of
how we will select cells and we'll do this together.
So I'm just going to select these couple of cells.
So first I want to select the management use options for
These the specific area that I just selected, we give you the option to choose
to just in case, you know, there's more than one that's
relevant to your
management needs.
So I'm going to go ahead and select a couple.
We do ask that you at least pick one.
You don't have to pick a second, but you can.
So then I'm going to skip this apply only button because I want to
put everything in at once.
So same thing with the map product requirements.
Here is this list.
And again,
we ask that you select at least one, but you have the option to pick two
the order that you put them in doesn't really matter too much.
And if you've, you know,
yeah if you pick two they are weighted the same.
But again you know you need to pick one of you if you only have one.
Okay.
So I selected my management he says and my product requirements.
So now I'm going to go down here to this points select your area.
So here it's telling me I already have 21 of my 50 coins assigned.
So that's good information to know.
I have 29 coins available and I have selected these turquoise cells.
So that's all correct.
So this five, so this basically
automatically maxes out
the max number of coins that I can input into these cells
based on how many coins I have left and how many cells I have selected.
So for example, if I select
a ton of cells, then I have 12 cells selected.
It's only letting me input two because I don't have enough coins
to put more than that into each of these grid cells. So
it's kind of just
does some math for you there.
So just like these two cells only want to put
three coins into it, somewhat important.
And then once I'm happy with all that,
I'll apply all, coins have updated.
And so now I can
see what I just input into those cells.
So again,
when we go through this together, this is just kind of how it'll go,
you know, the basics of the web tool and how it'll work.
So the way envision these one on one meetings
with you guys is all kind of drive the tool.
You guys tell me where to go.
If we get to a point where you feel comfortable with it,
I can then maybe hand off the the web tool and you guys can work on it yourselves.
If we don't get everything finished in during our call,
you know, there's different ways that we can we can do this.
But I wanted to start with these one on one calls with folks
because sometimes it's a little easier
if there's I'll just pause for a minute
if anybody have any questions about the tool design
before I kind of wrap things up and go over
next steps.
Cool.
All right.
So let's see.
All right.
So what happens next?
So over
the next couple of weeks, myself or Jewel will be reaching out
to all of our POCs
for your group to set up one on one virtual meetings.
So you know
We'll include everyone here in that communications.
As long as I had your email on my list at some point. So
and the goal of these meetings is for you to tell me
what your spatial priorities and data needs are.
And I'll record that information into the web tool like you just saw.
We'll make sure we give you all plenty of time to discuss
internally with your colleagues and any partners before this meeting.
But please let us know if you need more time.
The general timeframe we're shooting for is sometime in June
and July will have a one hour
meeting with you all.
I anticipate if you know, if you guys are ready with,
you know, what your spatial needs are, then you know, the
the rest of the process goes fairly quickly.
But if you have questions or really want to discuss more things,
we can certainly carve out time for that as well.
You know in my experience with this process, it does spark
a lot of ideas and discussions and things like that, which is awesome
and we definitely want to provide that platform as well. So,
you know, I do want to
promise just an hour, but, you know, it really depends.
But we're here to work with you guys and whatever process
you need to to give us your input.
So once we receive
everyone's inputs,
we will analyze the data
and produce draft results probably sometime in August.
If as long as we get everyone's input by then
and then we'll set up a
another one hour webinar kind of formatted like this where it will be recorded and,
you know, 10 minutes attendance is obviously optional, but will
present the results sometime hopefully in September,
you know, which I'll invite everyone to that and,
and we will present the results and the dashboard that we put together
and then answer any questions or get more feedback
from you guys on that as well. So
open lines of communication, you know, throughout this whole process
with everyone, I'm always available via email
and, you know, my calendars up to date for NOAA
Folks, who can see my calendar, but you know,
I'm always happy to put together a call if it's needed.
And I know Jewel who I'm not sure if she's in this call.
She's also very
informed on this project and knows how things work.
So she can also kind of be
a good point of contact as well
since the time difference is a little crazy between the East Coast
and and where you guys are out in the West Pacific.
But, you know, I think we've got plenty of time to work this and
yeah, we'll do our best
awesome Yes I think Dan
Yeah was just kind of curious what are some of the potential products
that could come out of like, I guess I'm wondering, you know,
we can say where we'd be interested in more mapping efforts,
but what were those mapping efforts look like?
This cruise like multibeam data
or underwater surveys or I guess what are the options.
Yeah. Yeah.
So let me let me start off by saying,
you know, in terms of the direct so the products
of this project itself is going to be the report with suggested areas
suggested, platforms and you know, the areas of high priority.
The products from this project
are not going to be like multibeam data or anything like that.
That's kind of the next step in this whole, you know, process.
And why we're doing this project is to then
then identify what the best
best way to
collect data in these areas is based on the data needs which is identified
in this project and, you know, resolution and stuff like that.
So, you know, it could be multibeam data if there is
identified as a need, you know, or backscatter that kind of stuff.
But in terms of like a direct product from this project,
things you know that that comes,
you know, outside of the scope of this project.
But in terms of
you know, take a look at the you know, this
map product requirements is kind of, you know, we didn't
want to specifically put Multibeam on here if that was like the data need
because we wanted people to more think of like how they're using the data
and then understanding that
not everyone like is an expert on and collecting multibeam data.
And maybe they think like I need to know,
you know, fine scale habitat
or I need to know coral species data, you know, that they
I think people can tell us a little bit easier,
which is why we kind of have a list that we do.
And then the recommendations from these map product requirements
will then kind of translate to, multibeam might be the best method.
Does that answer your question then?
I was kind of
little along with No, I think that and so I guess I'm
just looking like, what are other options besides Multibeam data?
Like diver led?
I mean, what, you know, are all of these product requirements potentially feasible?
Yeah, Yeah, I think
I'm not sure we're not, but I think, you know,
some of these could be like, you know, models of presence, absence,
for example, like you could use existing multibeam
or lidar data to model the density of corals,
but you may need, you know, ground truthing data to supplement that.
And so that's part of this project is to recognize the data that exists
and where there's gaps based on, you know, what the people identify as like
the product requirements or what
people need in these areas and what kind of these gaps are.
And then, you know, it's up to the stakeholders or who's looking to
to use this information to to fill these data gaps on, you know, what
what's doable or not based on the area and funding and that kind of stuff.
Thanks. Yep.
Yeah, good question.
Thanks.
All right.
Awesome.
Well, yeah,
I think the only last thing I didn't touch on was just the final report.
Like I said, we're going to do Guam, CNMI, and American Samoa
all in one one big report.
It'll come in December.
We're hoping and December of this year.
But again, the results themselves
will be available much sooner than that, as soon as we can get them out
so that you can at least use that as just in terms of the narrative and,
you know, that kind of stuff
will come in the report.
That kind of like the final sized finalized data
and outcomes. So
but yeah, if at any point
and I'll reiterate this when we kind of release the preliminary results
once we get them, you know, there's there's anything else we can help with,
you know, again, keeping that line of communication open, we're happy
to help where we can interpret the results and
and share them with folks
in easy ways.
So with that,
if anyone has any other questions,
I'll be here for a few more minutes.
And yeah, I'm sure
you guys will be hearing from myself or Jewel soon.
And thank you all for for joining in this
this webinar and I hope was informative and I look forward to talking with
you guys more about this.
Have a great rest of your day.