| Identifier | 13LME01 | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Collect sediment cores to use in the reconstruction of fire history in several locations in Everglades National Park. | ||||||||
| Location | Everglades National Par, South Florida | ||||||||
| Summary | Sediment cores collected to analyze fossil charcoal down core for fire reconstruction | ||||||||
| Info derived | fossil charcoal | ||||||||
| Comments | Platform was 20 ft Seacraft operated by Karen Balentine (FWS). Navigation to sample sites by foot. | ||||||||
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600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
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| Principal investigators | Thomas J SmithGinger T RangeBalentine, Karen | ||
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| Affiliate principal | Kevin Whelan (NPS) |
| Data category: | Location-Elevation, Sampling |
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| Data type: | Navigation, Geology |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Peat Corer | Biology, Geology | 1 | |
| Other | Unknown, Profiles, Transects, Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation | (no data reported) |
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| Fire_history_cores.zip | Peat Corer | CSV file containing sediment core location, charcoal abundance and 210Pb ages. | Ginger T Range |
Tiling-Range, G., 2017, Using fossilized charcoal to corroborate the Everglades fire history geodatabase: , https://doi.org/10.5066/F7VM49G3.