The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) supports conservation of the nation's coral reef ecosystems through documenting and understanding the status and trends of biological, environmental, and socioeconomic variables across the U.S. jurisdictions.

Listed below are links to the raw data packages that have been archived with the National Centers for Environmental Information. Each page linked below either contains a direct link to the data or a granule search link which will execute a secondary search for all years of data archived for that location.

Citation: NCRMP data is completely open access, but please cite the dataset if you use it. If you need any assistance downloading the data or have questions about how to cite, please contact:

ncrmp.questions@noaa.gov
Several large, branching elkhorn coral colonies sit in shallow water, interspersed by other coral species and black banded fish swimming through them.
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