• Introduction: A Diversity of Oceans, Reefs, People, and Ideas: A Perspective of US Coral Reef Research.- Controls on Late Quaternary Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys.- A Perspective on the Biology of Florida Keys Coral Reefs.- Coral Reefs, Present and Past, on the West Florida Shelf and Platform Margin.- The Reef Tract of Continental Southeast Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, USA).- Biology and Ecology of Coral Reefs and Coral Communities in the Flower Garden Banks Region, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico.- Coral-reef Geology: Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.- Ecology of Coral Reefs in the US Virgin Islands.- Biology and Ecology of Puerto Rican Coral Reefs.- Reef Geology and Biology of Navassa Island.- Geology of Hawaii Reefs.- Biology and Ecological Functioning of Coral Reefs in the Main Hawaiian Islands.- Geology and Geomorphology of Coral Reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.- Biology of Coral Reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.- US Coral Reefs in the Line and Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean: History, Geology, Oceanography, and Biology.- US Coral Reefs in the Line and Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean: Status, Threats and Significance.- Aspects of the Biology and Geomorphology of Johnston and Wake Atolls, Pacific Ocean.- Geologic Setting and Geomorphology of Coral Reefs in the Mariana Islands (Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).- Aspects of Biology and Ecological Functioning of Coral Reefs in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.- Geologic Setting and Ecological Functioning of Coral Reefs in American Samoa.- Deep-Water Coral Reefs of the United States.

From the reviews:"It is a superb, well written, and beautifully illustrated account of all the major coral reefs in the continental US and its overseas possessions. … The profusion of maps, charts, aerial and underwater photographs, and drawings are of excellent quality. This is the first volume of a series that will cover the coral reefs of the world. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (J. C. Briggs, Choice, Vol. 46 (2), October, 2008)