Climate Change Resources

A bleaching event, likely caused by high sea water temperatures, affected these staghorn corals in Tumon Bay Marine Preserve, Guam. Increased frequency of coral bleaching events is expected as sea surface temperatures continue to warm as a result of global climate change. Photo Credit: Dave Burdick

This page provides resource materials on climate change that have been gathered by the Coral Reef Conservation Program's Climate Change Working Group. This collection is not intended to be a comprehensive source of such documents, but rather a listing of reference documents for this working group.

National
Local, Domestic
International
General

National

Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United Sates for the Next Decade: An Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy (pdf, 4.70 mb – see Theme 4 section)

Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Calcifiers: A Guide for Future Research (pdf, 9.49 mb)

U.S. Geological Survey Strategic Science for Coral Ecosystems: 2007 - 2011 (pdf, 844 kb)

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Local, Domestic

Florida: Public Opinion on Climate Change (pdf, 1.73 mb)

Global Climate Change and Reef Resilience Local Action Strategy for Guam (pdf, 150 kb)

Hawaii’s Climate Change and Marine Disease Local Action Strategy April 2007 (pdf, 1.77 mb)

The United States Territory of American Samoa: Three-Year Local Action Strategies 2004 - 2007 (pdf, 2.53 mb)

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