1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 13CBC04

Identifier 13CBC04
Purpose Scientific Purpose/Goals Site visit to existing coral calcification monitoring stations to deploy new coral species; install new station at Crocker Reef and deploy new coral species.
Location Area of Operation Biscayne National Park, Fowey Rocks Light (Homestead, FL) FKNMS, Molasses Reef (Key Largo, FL) FKNMS, Sombrero Reef (Marathon, FL)
Summary Measured buoyant mass of n = 10 colonies each species each site, and dry mass of crustose coralline algae gained on n = 10 tiles. Maintenance of station.
Info derived Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for coral Montastraea faveolata and Acropora cervicornis and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months.
Comments Kuffner, I.B., Toth, L.T., Hudson, J.H., Goodwin, W.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Bartlett, L.A., and Whitcher, E.M., 2019, Experimental data on construction and erosion of Orbicella coral reefs in the Florida Keys, U.S.A.: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P92NVINW.
Platform
Halimeda
Itinerary
Start Tavernier, FL (FL Keys) 2013-06-09
End Miami, FL 2013-06-17
Bounds
West -82.0225
East -79.89113174
North 25.58504431
South 24.37602395

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Ilsa B Kuffner
Crew members
Christopher D Reich
Scientist, Staff
Ilsa B Kuffner
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), Meteorology, Temperature, Photo

Equipment used

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

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
13CBC04-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
Orbicella_growth_FL_USA Balance Data describing the growth of corals in the Orbicella annularis species complex from 2013 to 2015 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys Ilsa B Kuffner

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
FL_erosion-photo-record Camera, Digital, Hand Held Photographic images of the seafloor collected with underwater cameras at twenty-eight reef-erosion markers located at Hen and Chickens Reef Sanctuary Preservation Area Ilsa B Kuffner