All right.
Well, good morning, everyone.
Thanks for joining us.
Which many, if not all of you,
provided some input one way or another.
So my name is Jen Kraus.
I'm with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science.
I'm over at OMAO now, but still working on this project
And so today I'll be presenting
what we have so far for the Guam and CNMI mapping prioritizations.
This is just a quick overview.
We'll talk about what's in store next for this project.
Thanks to the project team and the many participants,
without your help and your input in this project,
this could not be possible.
So we really, really appreciate your time.
out of your busy schedules to work on this with us.
Before we begin, please ask questions during the webinar.
You can type them in the chat box.
We have some of our team members who can maybe answer the questions
if they know how to answer them.
If not, I can get to it at the end or if I see it, I'll try to answer it.
We'll also have some time at the end for any last minute questions.
But yeah, I'd like for this to be just pretty chill,
relaxed, open discussion and please ask questions.
Please mute your right microphones if you haven't already.
And this meeting is going to be recorded
and we'll share this out with everyone once we get it uploaded
onto our website, maybe in like a week or so and I'll shoot everyone an email.
So you have access to that and you can share it with colleagues
that weren't able to make it.
And I'll share it with with everyone invited on this chat.
So everyone should have it.
So just a quick agenda.
So first, we'll briefly revisit the project objectives and goals
it's been maybe five or six months since we first reached out and had our intro webinar.
So I wanted to kind of give everyone a refresher on the project.
I'll give a brief overview of the methods that we used in our analysis,
and then I'll go over some of the results
and give a quick demo of the results dashboard that we have up online.
It's public and I'll upload the links to that in the chat so that everyone
can open that and follow along with me and see how how that kind of functions.
If you have trouble accessing let us know.
But like I said, it's all public, so should be easy to click through.
Finally, I'll briefly
go over what we have next for this project as a whole.
So the whole prioritization
project or next jurisdiction we're doing and final reports for
Guam and CNMI as well as American Samoa, which is the next jurisdiction
that we're working on,
We will have some time at the end, like I said, for questions or discussion,
So a quick review of the goals of this multi-year project.
We started this project in 2020.
We have been moving through all the
coral reef management jurisdictions from Puerto Rico,
Usvi and the Pacific jurisdictions as well.
So for your project, we're closing it out this year, early next calendar
We'll be closing things out maybe around
January, January to March.
So our main objectives, we have three main objectives.
So we wanted to identify gaps in bathymetric data
and we did this by creating an inventory of existing data within the project scope.
And so that was an inventory map that we shared out.
And it's also background data layers in the web tool for those of you
who use it.
So that's one of our three main objectives.
The next is to identify high priority
locations of overlapping mapping needs to inform coral reef management.
And so that's where you all came in and provided us with your input
and we analyze your inputs and kind of look at where overlapping data needs are
and you'll see what that looks like here in a little bit.
And then all that kind of ties
into identifying, mapping, potential mapping projects.
So this is part of the coral reef conservation programs
multidisciplinary approach to provide necessary
information for effective coral reef conservation and management.
So this is just a key piece in that the purpose of this project
and today's webinar is to get information to people with CRCP
being one of the many entities that fund mapping in these different regions.
So we want to provide this data as it can be used for everyone here,
all our partners and stakeholders, everyone and anyone is our public.
And so we provide this as a service to everyone else
and that can use this data.
So the results will be finalized once we release the report.
So, the data
that we're going to share with you guys today is technically preliminary. But,
we don't anticipate many changes there.
But once the report comes out, it will be a lot of more supplementary
discussion and explanation of the data
and how we interpret it.
We'll consider it final when that report comes out
and then there's a link to these slides.
I forgot to mention there's a link to these slides in
the calendar invite.
So if you want to download and follow along,
you can there's a link to our hub here at the bottom,
which I will put in the chat here
just so you have it.
But we've shared this with everyone before.
This is our project page.
If you're curious, we're looking at all of the other jurisdictions in this project
as a whole
So here we have
just an image of the Guam and CNMI project areas.
So the red line is the 40 meter contour isobath
so real close to shore.
But again, the scope of this project is shallow, coral reef areas 0 to 40 meters.
So it gave us a little bit of room to look at.
And,
the image at the bottom right is the just the close up
of the spatial grid that we used.
And so this is where our participants
selected grids and input their data needs.
That way
we use the hexagon grid
shape just each grid equaling about two and a half square kilometers.
So, you know, try to pick a resolution that would work.
We wouldn't be too many grids, but, you know, enough to
provide it to give
you guys the space to provide input.
And so, yeah, so this is the project area.
So on the right, just a quick note of what the jurisdictions that are completed.
We just released the Hawaii reports, so it should actually 2023
and ongoing is Guam CNMI and then American Samoa,
which we're completing the inputs for that now.
We're going to do the analysis in the next few weeks.
And then, like I said, the report we'll work on and get that out
at the beginning of next year, early, early spring.
So this is the project area.
And for CNMI, we did include all the the islands from Rota
to Farallon de Pajaros. So,
we wanted to provide an opportunity
to provide any input if there is some of the more remote
islands that there were some data needs at
and to go on.
And so for the web tool, the data inventory
and the grid that I just talked about became the foundation
for the prioritization web tool to gather coral mapping data needs.
So, you know, for those of you that didn't use it
or that you did many, many months ago,
you know, the bottom right is, is what the Web tool kind of look like,
just the interface for it.
And basically participants input coins into this grid
and this from
this was so that they can indicate when and where a data are needed.
The more coins they put in, the more urgency,
the more urgent the data needs were.
So more coins, more urgent data, so
there was a set number of coins each participant received
and which you'll see in the table here in the middle.
So, for example, participants
were given a total of 50 points and put into the grid for Guam.
And this is, you know, to tell us
where their data needs needs were. For Guam project area
we allowed a maximum of five coins per grid cell
to be input into a single cell, which encourages participants
to spread their coins out so they can't put all 50 into one cell, they
can only put 5.
The number of coins we gave
each participant was based solely
on the number of grid cells in each region.
So that's why you'll see CNMI spanned a much larger region.
So there is more grid cells, more total coins.
But in the end the analysis for each region are done separately.
So it's not weighted differently or biased or anything like that.
You know, each each region, Guam and CNMI, were analyzed separately.
So the data are independent of each other.
Participants were also given a dropdown list of selections
indicate their intended management use and map product
requirements, the requirements to be input along with their coin.
So this just tells us more information as to why data is needed,
the type of data requirements that need to be met. And this
this is kind of additional information that helps us create a narrative.
So just general
methods for how we kind of organize and visualize the data.
So first, agencies input their data, their data needs on their own time
during a window of about seven weeks from February to March of this year.
So after participants input their coins, we downloaded and compiled the data.
We summarize the inputs by total number of coins for grid cell,
as well as the different management uses and product requirement selection
that went with those coins.
So we can kind of spatially look at all these different options in the grid.
And I'll show you what that looks like.
This resulted in multiple grid layers where we can visualize
the spatial distribution of total coins, number of coins per management use and the
number of coins of map product options, so they decide.
So we also created a ranking layer, which is again
a layer that I'll show you in the dashboard
and this was calculated by combining ranks of the total number of coins,
number of participants, and then the number of management uses selected.
So basically all those put together, we created a ranking layer.
So this is allows us to look at cells of multiple aspects of importance at once
and kind of help us determine high priority areas, that might make more sense once I show it.
And finally, we did have a few agencies with
more than one participant who input,
but those groups, we aggregated them
just into one entry.
I'm not sure if we actually had that for this jurisdiction,
so that might be incorrect.
Okay, here are the agencies that
participated, or that we reached out to for this effort.
In total, we had input from seven groups
in Guam and ten for CNMI.
These groups of people play significant role in corporate management
within these jurisdictions or advise to coral reef managers,
collecting data to making management decisions.
So we tried to get a broad range of different inputs.
So we really appreciate everyone's time and effort in getting us this information.
So now going to move into a brief overview of some of the results.
So first, this is for Guam.
These are the management uses that were selected, and
we asked each participant to tell us how they will be using the data
to inform coral reef management by giving them a list of management use options.
So here on the right are just some of them.
I don't know if these are all of them or not.
It might be if there are some that weren't selected
then it wouldn't be on this grid.
But I think this may be most of them.
So this is a brief overview of what we're looking at here.
We allowed participants to input two selections of primary and secondary,
so that's why you see an overall column, primary and secondary column.
So overall it is a aggregate of those two.
So this, this here
we're looking at Guam, this bar graph shows how often each management
use was selected with the most common overall at the top.
So habitat restoration was the most selected
management use, followed by monitoring and watershed management.
These three options alone made up just about 75% of all inputs
from participants in Guam.
If we look at
which were selected as primary and secondary,
just to kind of give examples of why we showed that as well, you can see that
although Watershed management
was one of the
top three overall selected management uses,
it was only selected as the secondary option.
So it's still important, you know, we gave everyone the option to select two
if they needed it.
But you know,
it doesn't mean that watershed management isn't any less significant, but
it's just interesting to look at it kind of in this way.
So, yeah,
Here's the same
results from CNMI.
Just note that and I'm
just going to go back to I'm just going to go back.
The color doesn't necessarily
coordinate with the management use.
It's just the you know, whatever the top one is, is,
is the same color just the way we colored things. So
for CNMI
the coastal vulnerability, monitoring, and habitat restoration,
we're the top selected options for this region.
And again we'll provide all these in the report
and then in the slides, if you want to look at them some more.
So for map product requirements
and in addition to asking why people needed data, we also asked them
like what types of requirements will be met with new mapping data.
So this ultimately helps us better understand
the resolution and methodology needed to fulfill these requirements.
So here identification of coral species
is the top selected requirement, followed closely by habitat suitability,
which makes up just about over half of the coins here.
So for an example of like how we would use, how we would recommend,
different data collection methods for identification
of coral species, it's a very fine resolution if you're looking at,
you know,
coral species, it's you're probably looking at like 1 to 2
meter resolution, if not, into the centimeter resolution.
And we're talking about, you know, collecting images
and maybe even, you know, a finer resolution than that.
So that's that's kind of how how we would interpret this.
And CNMI
density of microbiota, identification of coral species, again
one of the top ones, and substrate type was kind of all,
kind of the top three or four,
habitat suitability was up there as well.
And that's for makeup, almost almost all the inputs
and addition to topographic features. So,
That's these are the results for CNMI.
Okay, now I'm going to roll into
just a quick demo of the,
the dashboard.
I'm going to click this link here and then I'll go ahead
and put it in the chat if anyone wants to open it up as well.
There's a lot of functionalities in this.
I want to make sure,
we tried to make this user friendly, publicly available,
and easy to interpret and kind of click around
since there are so many data layers that we provide for this.
We thought this is a pretty cool way to be able to view all the data.
The data will also be available for download as well.
If you prefer to look at the data in a different way,
you can, it's usually a shape file and I think an Excel spreadsheet.
Different ways to look at the data.
But this is one that's that's available to look at now.
When you first open it up,
it's kind of zoomed out
pretty far just because it's showing Guam and CNMI, which is a broad
and very long chain of islands, as you know.
I'm going to just zoom in to Guam here really quick.
It's going to take a second to load all of these grids.
It kind of looks a little funky. There we go.
So a couple of general
kind of instructions.
So down here at the bottom of the map, you'll see there's a map tab
and a help and information tab.
So if you click on the help and information,
this kind of walks through what I'm going to show here, just how to filter,
how to look at the different layers, what some of the layers mean.
And so this is here just for reference, if you need it.
Again, this is under the map next to the map tab.
Going back to the map.
By default here on the left under filter
the data, I'm going to kind of quickly go over how these functions work.
If you wanted to just look at the jurisdiction, you can turn off.
If I just wanted to look at Guam and now it doesn't have any of the CNMI
results showing and if I wanted to switch,
I'll click on CNMI and now it's just showing the CNMI one.
So that might help with like loading.
If your internet is a bit slow,
this might help with like loading things a little easier, but in general
you can probably just leave both of them on.
So overall coins,
we've kind of bin them into different categories.
So the top ten is the top 10% percentile of the data.
These dark red cells and you'll see the
the reference here, the legend here on the right,
the top ten are kind of the the cells where we had the most
overlapping data needs,
the most number of coins in input into these grid cells.
So if you wanted to just look at, say,
the top 10% cells because it is kind of busy with all the different colors,
if you just click on top ten, it'll just show those top 10% cells.
And then if you wanted to also look at the top ten and high,
you can click on the high option and now you're seeing both.
If this is helpful.
So you can also if you click on one of those options
again, it'll be selected so you can kind of click through there.
And if you want to see them all, you click the all button.
So that's how that works.
I'm going to shift over to the top right really quick because there's
a few buttons that are kind of important for how we're going to view
the the rest of these options, the ranking management uses and product requirements.
Over at the top right, there's the home button that'll take you to the
the main extent that we saw when we first opened up the dashboard.
Using that one.
The next one is the legend and it just kind of pops up a legend
if you want to see it there instead.
It's just for the layers that are active.
So right now we just have total coins active.
On the far right,
we've got the base map.
So standard ESRI ArcGIS base map.
If you want to change something to to view things a little easier, you can.
And then we have the layers lists.
So this is what I'm trying to spend the most time on, kind of explaining
and going through and showing how it works,
because to view all the layers
you have to use both the radio buttons
on the left and the layer list.
So right now we just have the total coins
layer on, that's what we're viewing,
and that's what we were selecting through for the overall coins.
Total coins, overall coins, the same thing.
So if I wanted to look at the summary rank,
which is kind of the next group of selectors here,
I'm going to turn off total little coins and turn on summary rank.
So and I'm looking at a different layer and then I can go
over here and filter through and just look at the top 10%.
B C D is just kind of how we binned those.
So again, if
you don't remember the rankings,
it's in this little notes page.
So the ranking was based on the combined values of total coins,
number of participants, and number of management users.
So that's, that's what we used in this ranking
layer.
Just to kind of show as an example,
if we look at the top
ten cells for ranking, what does this tell us?
So this tells us that these cells not only had
a lot of people interested in it, the number of participants
in this area has the most diverse,
the most number of different management users.
so a greater diversity of management uses in these areas,
as well as a higher number of total coins.
If we say,
in Apra Harbor, we wanted to collect data,
this data would provide a service to multiple different people.
It would cover many different management uses and
a greater interest as well,
given we use the total coins in this layer.
That's kind of why we wanted to include this ranking layer
because it's kind of looking at a few different aspects in one.
It does not also include the map product requirements,
we left that out of the ranking, but the other
three are in there.
In general that the same things
like total coins were we've got the top 10% for the rank,
it kind of shows B C D
between the highest and lowest rank.
All right,
so moving on to the other layers.
We also provided different layers for the management uses.
So I'm going to turn off
summary rank and I turn on the management uses layers.
So now if I go back over here to the left,
I click on management uses and it has this dropdown option, this dropdown
list of the different management uses and the different corresponding layers.
It's alphabetized.
So it's not necessarily like the most common management use at the top.
You may have to
refer back to those tables and the bar graphs that we showed.
I think monitoring was one of the top ones.
So I'll turn on monitoring.
And now we
can see the spatial distribution of where monitoring was most selected.
Kind of same thing, darker red, top 10%.
This is where the most coins with the management use monitoring
were selected in Guam.
And then you can kind of look through I think habitat
restoration is another one that was commonly
selected.
And then, you know, like fisheries
management, only one cell was selected with fisheries management.
So of course that one is in the top 10% because it's relative
to that management use. So
yes, the fisheries management
wasn't selected in a lot of different cells,
just one.
Same exact thing from our map product requirements.
And so let's see hard versus soft bottom.
I don't think anyone selected that.
So that's why we didn't see anything.
So I'm going to select identification
of coral species. That was one that was selected quite frequently.
So you can kind of see some patterns
in the spatial distribution of, you know, where these top options
were selected along with the total points.
So yes,
those are those are in there as well.
Let's see.
And then this requirement scale is is kind of something that we don't,
this isn't an option that was selected by participants or anything.
This is more something that we correlated
the the different map product requirements with
the general
data requirement scale.
So like if it's
a median resolution or high resolution or a course resolution.
So kind of looking at more big picture stuff.
We provided those here as well with some reference like 2 to 10
meter resolution range is the mesoscale.
And so you can look at the data distribution for these three options.
So more regional, larger scale stuff, that's where those were.
So is it helpful as those are in there as well.
And finally, we have
a couple other options.
These don't have data filters
associated with them on the left, but these are also really helpful data layers.
So I'm going to turn on number of requirements.
So this is
for Guam,
if you're not familiar with like dashboards, ArcGIS Online,
you know, this little eyeball that's next to each layer,
if there's a line through it, it's it's off.
And so turning those on and off, that's how those work.
So this is the number of map requirements.
So if you wanted to look at which regions had a greater
diversity of map product requirements selected, that's where those were.
And if you look at the the legend, you know, the top 10% again
is the darker blue.
And then this like four plus means that there was four or more different
map product requirements selected in these cells.
And then for the lighter blue is only three different map product requirements
and then 1 to 2. And then zero, of course, is empty.
So you can look at that per region.
We also had number of management uses,
so number of different management uses selected.
Again, you can kind of see a pattern like a lot of interest in Apra Harbor
and then you can look at those per region.
So how many different management uses.
This darker blue is three
or more different management uses were selected in those cells.
These are independent of coin numbers.
So this is just the how many different management uses.
It's three, two, three, four.
So yes, independent of coin number. And then number of participating groups.
So this is how many
how many different entities input into the single cell.
These darker blue colors here in Guam as three or more
different participating groups selected these areas.
So you can see that.
And then we also provided the background data.
So there's multiple places you can find this inventory of existing mapping data.
This is one place, it's all linked to the same map.
You can also, in the hub that I mentioned
that I shared with you in the chat,
the hub
that is the inventory
is, is got a page there as well so you can open that there.
The dashboard is linked and one of the pages as well under the results tab.
There's not a place that you can view this data,
but we wanted to also reference it here as background data.
If you wanted to pull up an existing data, look at some of the results
that I just went through and kind of see more of what's going on.
Like you know, there's maybe a data gap somewhere and there is a lot of interest,
you know, that that makes sense.
And that can be part of the reason why those areas were selected.
So that's I'll be here to kind of look at at the same time,
I think that's it for the dashboard.
Does anybody have any questions before I move on to kind of next steps
and close out?
I think I'll just chuck ahead,
If anybody's going through this and you get into a snag or something
doesn't seem to be working properly sometimes ArcGIS online makes an update
and it kind of messes up some of these functions.
So please let us know if you run into any snags and we will get in and fix it
and cool.
All right.
So next steps.
So I guess the dashboard is publicly available for everyone to view.
You don't need to log into ArcGIS online or anything.
You should be able to just click on it and see everything there.
As I mentioned before, the data is preliminary until the report
is released, just so that we can make sure we're looking at the big picture
and providing a full, well-rounded narrative of the data.
So more information
and the final results will be released with our NOAA Tech memo.
We're hoping to get that out this winter
by January 1st.
And but you can review the results for this,
these two jurisdictions online, you can use them however you want.
You can reference, you know, the work that we do
just with that caveat
so that it is just preliminary.
But if you want to view the results and the reports,
go to that hub page link that I provided,
You should be able to go to the download the reports, view of the data.
Everything should be on there
and for next steps.
So the next jurisdiction that we're working on is American Samoa.
We just finished all the data inputs
for for that jurisdiction just last week.
So we're going to be working on the analysis
and creating the same dashboard that you just saw for that region.
I know there's some folks here
that maybe work and provide an input for that that jurisdiction.
So thank you if you're one of those.
But and if you're interested as well.
You know, I know there's there's maybe some overlap between these regions. So
you know
that report because we're working on Guam and CNMI
concurrently, we're working on that report in tandom
So, you know, giving ourselves a little bit more time to close that out.
So hoping by the spring.
But I think we'll get the results out and do a webinar like this
for that jurisdiction well before that.
So probably sometime this fall, maybe in the next couple of months even,
we'll go ahead and present and share the results for for that
for that region
and yeah,
and most importantly, just keep collaborating.
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help in regards to the data
and kind of getting people connected.
And I'm sure you guys are all well connected already, but, you know, that's what
we wanted to do with with creating this discussion.
And I know our our coral reef liaisons as well are here to help
kind of answer any questions.
If you had them on on any of our
of our data and the who and what and why.
So yes, this project was meant to gather data,
which is often just a snapshot in time of what the current data needs are.
So moving forward, we encourage you to use this data
as kind of a starting point for future and further collaborations
and let us know if there's anything we can do to help.
We will be reaching out as well as we formulate Our report.
We will be focusing or kind of highlighting some of the areas that I showed you
that, you know, like Apra Harbor for example,
and I know like Saipan Lagoon have a lot of interest as well.
So We'll be kind of focusing on these specific
vocal areas in our report, highlighting these in our discussion.
And just like here's an example of an area that have a lot of interest
based on the summary rank data that I showed you all.
And so we're going to look at we'll probably follow up with some folks here
that participated and kind of ask for a more detailed narrative,
like why these areas were selected because that tool only captures so much.
So some of you might be getting an email from myself
and my colleagues soon, just kind of create more of a discussion
and give us a little bit more information we can include in our report.
And yeah, and
obviously any and all comments and discussion items are, are welcome And
again visit out hub. All the data is up there I think I already talked about this but
yeah a lot of good stuff in there
and yeah so
Here is my contact information, Christine
who isn't here on this call, is kind of helping me co-manage this project.
So between her and I will be able to answer any questions
and then Francisco, Dr.
Francisco Pagan is on this call as well.
I think he's he's been crucial in
paving the way for this project.
And, you know, he's he's been fully supporting this on the CRCP side.
So he's
he would be a good good point of contact as well for any CRCP
related questions.
So yeah, with that,
I will just leave that open to any questions anybody has
about this project, American Samoa, and
moving forward.
So I'm surprised at first again for any questions
questions,
ok,
cool.
Well, I think
feel free to email me any time if you have any questions,
if you want to take any any discussion off line, Happy to do so.
You know,
everyone worked really hard on this project,
so I'm really, really excited to share the results with everyone.
And, you know, the reports have all been well received as well in the past jurisdictions.
So look forward to those as well.
And yeah, I'll give you guys your 20 minutes back.
Thanks for joining early morning
and I hope you guys have a good rest of your Wednesday.