20250701 11530800 1.0 TRUE Number Deep-Sea Coral Taxa Associated with Hard Substrate having High Habitat Suitability This data layer depicts the number of deep-sea coral taxa associated with hard substrate that were predicted to have 'high' habitat suitability at each grid cell from models predicting the spatial distributions of deep-sea corals and sponges offshore of the continental U.S. West Coast to 1200 m depth. See the study technical report (Poti et al. 2020) for details. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)