Pacific Islands Coral Reef Project - Reports and Publications

Nakahara, R., et al. 1990. Water resources data, Hawaii and other Pacific areas, water year 1988. Vol 2. USGS Water Data Rpt HI-88-2. 136 pp.

Nakamura, S. 1984. Soil survey of AS. USDA. 95 pp.

Nass, R. 1971. Rodent survey of AS's Tutuila Island and Rose Island. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Hilo, HI. 8 pp.

Natland, J. 1980. The progression of volcanism in the Samoan linear volcanic chain. American Journal of Science 280-A:709-735.

Natland, J. 2003. The Samoan chain: a shallow lithospheric system. 10 pp.
<http://www.mantleplumes.org/Samoa.html>

Nelson, S. 1997. Nutritional consequences of anthropogenic and natural disturbances on the food base of the Samoan flying foxes. Thesis. Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 72 pp.

Nelson, S. 2001. Nutritional landscape ecology of fruit bats (Pteropus tonganus) in AS. PCSU Agreement 8028-2-9004. Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. 11 pp.

Nelson, S. 2003. Nutritional ecology of old-world fruit bats: A test of the calcium-constraint hypothesis. Dissertation. Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 140 pp.

Nelson, S., et al. 2000a. Nutritional consequences of a change in diet from native to agricultural fruits for the Samoan fruit bat. Ecography 23(4):393-401.

Nelson, S., et al. 2000b. Nutritional quality of leaves and unripe fruit consumed as famine foods by the flying foxes of Samoa. Pacific Science 54(4):301-311.

Nelson, S., et al. 2005a. Folivory in fruit bats: leaves provide a natural choice of calcium. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31(8):1683-1691.

Nelson, S., et al. 2005b. Fruit choice and calcium block use by Tongan fruit bats in AS. Journal of Mammalogy 86:1205-1209.

NMFS. 1998a. Recovery plan for US Pacific populations of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas). NMFS, Silver Spring, MD. 84 pp. <http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/recovery/turtle_green_pacific.pdf>

NMFS. 1998b. Recovery plan for US Pacific populations of the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). NMFS, Silver Spring, MD. 82 pp. <http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/recovery/turtle_hawksbill_pacific.pdf>

NOAA. 1981. Slope zones maps of Tutuila, Ofu/Olosega, AS. Slope zones 1 through 3 compiled from base materials provided by Dames and Moore, Honolulu, 1979. Zone 4 compiled from USGS. topographic maps by CZM Atlas of AS staff, 1980. 4 pp. NOAA Atlas.

NOAA. 2002a. Annual climatological summary 1966-2002, Pago Pago. AS. NOAA. 38 pp.

NOAA. 2002b. US Flag Pacific islands vessels grounding workshops January and February 2002. AS section only. 1-54 pp. NOAA and Pacific Basin Dev Council. 468 pp.

NOAA. 2003. Benthic habitats of AS. AS Mapping Team. Poster.<http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/products/biogeography/us_pac_terr/pdf/tutuila_map.pdf>

NOAA. 2004a. AS bathymetry maps. PIFSC, NOAA, NMFS, Honolulu, HI. 8 maps. <http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/hmapping/datadownload.php#amsm>

NOAA. 2004b. Sensitivity of coastal environments and wildlife to spilled oil AS atlas. NOAA, Seattle, WA. 39 pp.

NOAA. 2005. Shallow-water benthic habitats of AS, Guam, and CNMI. NOAA Tech Memo NOS NCCOS 8. Biogeography Team, Silver Spring, MD. Maps and CD. 126 pp. <http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/images/biogeo/us_pac_terr/us_pac_terr_atlas.pdf>

NOAA. 2006. Evaluation findings for the AS Coastal Mgmt Program from July 2000-July 2005. NOAA. 35 pp. <http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/mystate/docs/AmerSamoaCMP2005.pdf>

NOAA. 2007. AS weather service. <http://www.prh.noaa.gov/samoa/>

Norberg, U., et al. 2000. Soaring and non-soaring bats of the family Pteropodidae (flying foxes, Pteropus spp): wing morphology and flight performance. Journal of Experimental Biology 203:651-664.

NPS. 1988. NPSA feasibility study AS. Draft. NPS and ASG. 138 pp.

NPS. 1997a. NPSA enabling legislation. Public Law 100-571. Public Law 107-336. In: NPS. General management plan/environmental impact statement: NPSA. pp 369-373. DOI. 302 pp. (1997a) <http://www.nps.gov/npsa/parkmgmt/upload/publawnpsaop.pdf>

NPS. 1997b. General management plan/environmental impact statement: NPSA. DOI. 302 pp. <http://www.nps.gov/npsa/parkmgmt/upload/npsagmpeis1997textop.pdf>

NRC. 1991. Endangered species in AS and a conservation strategy for their protection (an interim rpt). Incomplete draft. DMWR Biological Rpt Series 17. Natural Resources Commission, AS. 40 pp.

NTC. 2003. Sea level and climate: their present state Samoa. Rpt to Australian Marine Science and Tech Ltd. 21 pp.
<http://www.bom.gov.au/ntc/IDO60030/IDO60030.2006.pdf>

NTC. 2004. Precise differential levelling Samoa. Survey rpt. Rpt to Australian Marine Science and Tech Ltd. 36 pp.

Nunn, P. 1998. Volcanism, tectonism and sea-level change in Samoa. Chap 7. pp 161-193. In: Nunn P. Pacific Island landscapes: landscape and geological development of southwest Pacific Islands, especially Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. Inst of Pacific Studies, Univ of So Pacific, Fiji.

O'Connor, P., et al. 2004. Inventory and monitoring of seabirds in NPSA. Univ of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. Tech Rpt 136. 140 pp.

Oliver T, et al. 2006. Genetic evidence of dispersal limitation and local adaptation in Samoan reef corals: Rpt on ongoing research: February, 2006. Unpublished. 10 pp.

Ollier, C., et al. 1979. O le Pupu-Puåe Ntl Park, WS. UNDAT, Suva, Fiji. 2 Vols. 162 pp.

Olson, M. 2001. Development discourse and the politics of environmental ideologies in Samoa. Society and Natural Resources 14:399-401.

Oram, R. 2006. AS coral reef marine protected area strategy. DMWR. 25 pp.

Oram, R. 2008. Marine protected area program master plan. DMWR Biological Rpt Series 2008-01. 64 pp.

Orbach, M. 1980. A selectively annotated bibliography of social, cultural and economic material related to fishery development in Hawaii, AS, and Micronesia. Rpt to Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission. 136 pp.

Orcutt, A. 1993. Fishes observed during the Tutuila coastal resources inventory. Rpt to DMWR. 67 pp.