Field Activity 09CBC04

Identifier 09CBC04
Purpose Installation of coral calcification monitoring station
Location Fowey Rocks, Biscayne National Park (Homestead, FL)
Summary Initial mass of n = 10 colonies of Siderastrea siderea
Info derived Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for coral Siderastrea siderea and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles.
Platform
Halimeda
Itinerary
Start Biscayne National Park, FL 2009-08-15
End Biscayne National Park, FL 2009-08-19
Bounds
West -80.3564
East -79.95689543
North 25.53519618
South 25.19317
Topic 10
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Ilsa B Kuffner
Crew members
Hickey, T
Scientist, Staff
Ilsa B Kuffner
Scientist, Staff
Sanford, Jordan
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Ilsa B Kuffner
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Imagery
Data type: Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Temperature, Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Balance Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) 1
HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Light, Temperature 3
Camera, Digital, Hand Held Photo (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
09CBC04-BF-pd-1 Balance Mass of calcium carbonate gained Ilsa B Kuffner
09CBC04-EN-pd-1 HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs Ilsa B Kuffner
FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Dec2016.csv HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2016 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Ilsa B Kuffner
FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Nov2015.csv HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2015 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Ilsa B Kuffner

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity