Description: The purpose of this condition report is to use the best available information to assess the status and trends of various components of NMSAS, including its natural and maritime heritage resources. The report is structured around a management-logic model called the Drivers-Pressure-State-Ecosystem Services-Response, or DPSER, model. This model enables NMSAS to comprehensively document the many factors that affect management responses, including the influence of societal drivers on pressures, the effects of those pressures on the condition of resources, and the effects of changing conditions on the services they provide to society. The first condition report, which assessed resources in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, was published in 2007. This condition report marks an updated and comprehensive description of the expanded sanctuary—National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. It includes status and trends of resources, covering the broad categories of water quality, habitat, living resources, and maritime heritage resources. This report also includes the status and trends of ecosystem services—the ways humans derive benefits from different ecosystem attributes that they care about for their lives and livelihoods. Ecosystem services evaluated in this report include non-consumptive recreation, consumptive recreation, science, education, heritage, sense of place, commercial harvest, subsistence harvest, and coastal protection. The report documents the condition of sanctuary resources and ecosystem services from 2008–2020, unless otherwise noted. Throughout the report’s development, sanctuary staff worked with numerous partners to identify and compile information and make assessments on resource and ecosystem service status and trends.
ID: ID457 Info. Type: ISI
Start date of Peer Review: 2/18/2022
Estimated Initial Dissemination Date: 12/1/2022
Actual Dissemination Date of peer review report and final work product: 12/13/2022
Contact Person: Kathy Broughton Get contact information
Review Type: A panel
Expected Number of Peer Reviewers: 4
Peer Reviewers will be selected by: Office of National Marine Sanctuary staff
Will the public, including scientific or professional societies, be asked to nominate potential peer reviewers? No
Will there be opportunities for the public to comment on the work product to be peer reviewed? No
Will the agency provide significant and relevant public comments to the peer reviewers before they conduct their review? Not applicable.
Primary disciplines or expertise needed in the review: Natural ecologists, historians, and economists.