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The Biogeography Branch is part of NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science in the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), located in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. The goals of the Biogeography Branch are to:
- Develop knowledge and products on the distribution and ecology of living marine resources throughout the Nation's estuarine, coastal and marine environments; and
- Provide resource managers, scientists and the public with an improved ecosystem basis for making decisions.
Activities of the Biogeography Branch focus on developing products, applications and processes for defining, mapping and interpreting the relationships of species distributions and their environments. Most of our projects are done in cooperation with other groups. Current project themes of the Biogeography Branch include:
- Marine biogeographic and ecological assessment
- Coral reef ecosystem monitoring
- Benthic habitat mapping of coral reef ecosystems
- Reef fish ecology studies
- Species' habitat suitability modeling using geographic information systems
- Designing and evaluating the efficacy of Marine Protected Areas
- Product dissemination
See the Biogeography What's New page.
See the Biogeography Branch's Projects for links to project descriptions and products.
See the Biogeography Branch's Products for links to product links.
Access aerial imagery for the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Hawaii at the Aerial Photography Search page.
For information on our current staff, see About Us.
For more information on NOAA's Biogeography Branch or products, please contact Dr. Mark Monaco at Mark.Monaco@noaa.gov or 301-713-3028, ext. 160.