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Journal for accession number: 0088018
Created on:                    2012-04-11 22:23:24 UTC
By:                            Sheri Phillips,OC1,SSMC3 4700,7133280x127

Source: These 2011 and 2012 coral reef habitat assessment and biological
survey data and metadata were received by NOAA's Coral Reef Information System
(CoRIS) and were submitted by CoRIS' Sarah O'Connor on behalf of Sarah Hile of
the NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA/Biogeography Branch. 

Actions: S. Phillips of NODC transferred the data and metadata to
appropriate subdirectories by island location. 

These data are benthic and biological assessment data collected by
NOAA's Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment in the U.S.
Virgin Islands on St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix. Data are mainly
in ASCII or .CSV format with associated metadata. 

Files:
about/
This directory contains files generated by NODC with ancillary
information about the data submission.

0088018_lonlat.txt - Contains sample locations for these data.  Each row
                     contains the geographical position where these data were
                     collected (longitude in the left column and latitude in
                     the right column, both in degrees).  NODC may have
                     corrected geographic positions that seemed to be in error
                     when generating this file.  However, NODC did not change
                     the original data files under the directory data/0-data/.

0088018_map.jpg - Sample location map for these data.

0088018_browse_map.jpg - Browse map of general data collection areas 
                         generated at the NODC.

0-email.txt - Email from data submitter (NOAA CoRIS) requesting that these
data should be archived at NODC.

Reef_Fish_Data_Dictionary.doc - This file was not included as part of the
original submission package to CoRIS but is referenced in the metadata records
and contains additional descriptive information about the data; the
original file was accessed from this link on (3/15/2013)
http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/biogeo_public/Metadata/Reef_Fish_Data_Dictionary.doc.

Reef_Fish_Data_Dictionary.pdf - A PDF/A translation of the original .doc file.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the data and metadata files as submitted to
NODC.

data/0-data/Land-Sea_EEMP_2011 - St. Croix, USVI 2011 land-sea characterization 
of East End Marine Park (EEMP) benthic habitat assessment and reef fish
survey data as ASCII files; Federal Geographic Data Commitee (FGDC)
metadata in .xml format.
        
data/0-data/NCREMP_2012 - St. Croix, USVI 2012 reef fish and benthic habitat
assessment data as .CSV files; Federal Geographic Data Commitee (FGDC)
metadata in .doc format.

data/0-data/STEER_2012 - St. Thomas East End Reserve (STEER), USVI 2012 
characterization of reef fish populations and benthic habitats data as
.CSV files; Federal Geographic Data Commitee (FGDC) metadata in .doc format.

data/0-data/STJ_2011 - St. John, USVI 2011 reef fish and benthic habitat
assessment data as ASCII files; Federal Geographic Data Commitee (FGDC)
metadata in .xml format.

data/1-data/
This directory contains files that were converted by NODC from their
originally submitted format (.doc) under the 0-data/ directory to an
archival format.
   *.pdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) files that NODC converted from
           the original Microsoft Word (.doc) files in /0-data. There is
           one PDF file for each Word file in a comparably named
           subdirectory.
 

