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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The posterior opening of the intestine, gonads, and kidney ducts. The vent is located just anterior to the anal fin in fishes.
Industry:Natural environment
The National Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Center’s mission is to facilitate the effective use of science, technology, training, and information in the planning, management, and evaluation of the nation’s system of marine protected areas. The MPA Center, located within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), develops operational and program policy, supports the MPA Federal Advisory Committee, manages national, regional, and international MPA coordination, conducts outreach and education, consults with federal agencies, state agencies, tribal agencies, fishery management councils, and others, maintains the U.S. MPA website, and oversees the collection of data for the marine managed areas inventory.
Industry:Natural environment
A chemical agent used to combat parasitic worms, such as roundworms and tape worms.
Industry:Natural environment
A flowering plant, complete with leaves, a rhizome (an underground, usually horizontally-oriented stem) and a root system. They are found in marine or estuarine waters. Most seagrass species are located in soft sediments. However, some species are attached directly to rocks with root hair adhesion. Seagrasses tend to develop extensive underwater meadows.
Industry:Natural environment
A massive structure built along the shore to prevent erosion and damage by wave action.
Industry:Natural environment
A projecting structure on the reef margin or reef front wherein the upper surface flares outward, giving the surface a greater diameter then the basal section.
Industry:Natural environment
A statistical technique for testing for differences in the means of several data populations.
Industry:Natural environment
A world-wide disease of corals that is characterized by a dark ring, or band, that separates apparently healthy coral tissue from freshly exposed coral skeleton. It migrates across coral colonies and completely degrades coral tissue. The infecting agent is a synergestic assortment of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic bacteria. For more details and illustrations, see: http://www.coral.noaa.gov/coral_disease/black_band.shtm.
Industry:Natural environment
An instrument that identifies the molecular composition and concentrations of various chemicals in water and soil samples.
Industry:Natural environment
