| Identifier | 2015-319-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates | ||||||||
| Location | Dry Tortugas National Park | ||||||||
| Summary | Measured buoyant mass of n = 10 colonies of Orbicella faveolata and n = 10 Acropora cervicornis, and dry mass of crustose coralline algae gained on n = 10 tiles from Pulaski Shoal, Dry Tortugas National Park. Maintenance of stations completed. Obtained samples from O. faveolata colonies using tile saw, transplanted remaining live halves of colonies back to the reef. Downloaded underwater temperature data from Pulaski Shoal covering last six months. Took underwater photographs. Measured buoyant mass and deployed n = 10 new colonies of Porites astreoides and n = 10 Acropora cervicornis colonies at Pulaski Shoal. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for corals Montastraea faveolata and Acropora cervicornis and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months. Deploying new coral specimens of Acropora cervicornis and Porites astreoides. | ||||||||
| Comments | Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-313-FA 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. | ||||||||
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| Marine operations | Yes |
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600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
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| Principal investigators | Ilsa B Kuffner | ||||||
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| Data category: | Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation |
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| Data type: | Experiments (biological), Temperature, Photo, Navigation |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | Temperature | 2 | |
| Balance | Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) | 1 | |
| Digital Camera | Photo, Video | 4 | |
| GPS | Navigation | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Dec2016.csv | HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | 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 Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | 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 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Pastreoides_growth_FL_USA | Digital Camera | Data describing the growth and condition of the coral Porites astreoides from 2015 to 2017 at four offshore coral reefs in the Florida Keys during four time-intervals | Ilsa B Kuffner |
| Pastreoides_end_measurements_FL_USA | Digital Camera | Data describing the physiological condition of Porites astreoides corals at the end of the experiment in 2017 grown at four offshore coral reefs in the Florida Keys | Ilsa B Kuffner |
| FL_Pastreoides_photo_record | Digital Camera | Photographic time-series images of coral condition during the growth experiment | Ilsa B Kuffner |
| FL_erosion-photo-record | Digital Camera | 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 |
