Introduction High-resolution imaging of coral reefs is critical for understanding ecosystem dynamics and guiding conservation efforts yet monitoring these changes at ecologically relevant spatial and temporal scales remains challenging. Methods We present cm-scale benthic habitat maps for over 5 km 2 of coral reefs in Tumon Bay, Guam, for 2022 and 2024, before and after Category 4 Typhoon Mawar (May 2023). NASA Airborne Fluid...

Empirical methods for estimating shallow-water bathymetry using passive multispectral satellite imagery are robust and globally applicable, in theory, but they require copious local measurements of water depth for algorithm calibration. Such calibration data have historically been unavailable for most locations, but NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), a satellite-based LiDAR, might hold unique promise...

Global overfishing of higher‐level predators has caused cascading effects to lower trophic levels in many marine ecosystems. On coral reefs, which support highly diverse food webs, the degree to which top‐down trophic cascades can occur remains equivocal. Using extensive survey data from coral reefs across the relatively unfished northern Great Barrier Reef (nGBR), we quantified the role of reef sharks in structuring coral ree...