Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Ilsa Kuffner, Richard Poore
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Environmental Data: Meteorology, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates. Coral drilling to obtain samples for Sr/Ca temperature proxy work.
Vehicle(s): Suburban - White 6, Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)
Start Port/Location: Key West, FL
End Port/Location: Key West, FL
Start Date: 2012-05-07
End Date: 2012-05-18
Equipment Used: GPS , Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus), Balance, Core Barrels, Digital Camera, HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K, Hydraulic Coring Drill, Tiles
Information to be Derived: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for coral Siderastrea siderea and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months. Coral growth rates from coral cores extending back approximately 100 years. Sr/Ca-derived sea surface temperature estimates using coral cores extending back approximately 100 years.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Measured buoyant mass of n = 10 colonies of Siderastrea siderea, and dry mass of crustose coralline algae gained on n = 10 tiles. Maintenance of station. Coral coring of at least 3 coral heads.
Staff: T Hickey, Kyle Kelso, Ilsa Kuffner, Christopher Reich
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Dry Tortugas National Park
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 24.66666578 | South: 24.57798986 | West: -82.9535 | East: -82.72110042 |
Platform(s):
 Fort Jefferson |  Halimeda |
Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Thirumalai, K., Poore, R.Z., DeLong, K.L., 2016, Multi-species Coral Sr/Ca based sea-surface temperature reconstruction data using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CC0XS9.
Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Thirumalai, K., Poore, R.Z., DeLong, K.L., 2017, Multi-species coral Sr/Ca-based sea-surface temperature reconstruction using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from the Florida Straits: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 466, pp. 100–109, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.10.022.
Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Toth, L.T., Kuffner, I.B., Poore, R.Z., 2018, Quantifying Uncertainty in Sr/Ca-Based Estimates of SST From the Coral_Orbicella faveolata_: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 33 no. 9, pp. 958–973, doi: 10.1029/2018PA003389.
Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Toth, L.T., Kuffner, I.B., Poore, R.Z., 2018, Sr/Ca and linear extension data for five modern O. faveolata colonies from Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90M2W6D.
Kuffner, I.B., 2017, Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs of the Florida Keys, U.S.A. (ver. 2.0, February 2017): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1TZK.
Kuffner, I.B., Roberts, K.E., Flannery, J.A., Morrison, J.M., Richey, J.N., 2016, Data for evaluating the Sr/Ca temperature proxy with in-situ temperature in the western Atlantic coral Siderastrea siderea: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XP732P.
Kuffner, I.B., Roberts, K.E., Flannery, J.A., Morrison, J.M., Richey, J.N., 2017, Fidelity of the Sr/Ca proxy in recording ocean temperature in the western Atlantic coral Siderastrea siderea: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 18, doi: 10.1002/2016gc006640.
Kuffner, I.B., Toth, L.T., Hudson, J.H., Goodwin, W.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Bartlett, L.A., Whitcher, E.M., 2019, Improving estimates of coral reef construction and erosion with in situ measurements: Limnology and Oceanography, Limnol Oceanogr, v. 64 no. 5, pp. 2283–2294, doi: 10.1002/lno.11184.
Kuffner, I.B., Weinzierl, M.S., Reich, C.D., Bartlett, L.A., Flannery, J.A., 2016, Coral cores collected in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, U.S.A.: Photographs and x-rays: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7V69GQ2.
Kuffner, I.B., 2015, Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs of the Florida Keys, U.S.A., 2009 to 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1TZK.
Weinzierl, M.S., Reich, C.D., Hickey, T.D., Bartlett, L.A., Kuffner, I.B., 2016, Collection methods and descriptions of coral cores extracted from massive corals in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, U.S.A: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1182, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161182.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPS | combined with temp data | Navigation | No data was collected |
| Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) | combined with temp data | Temperature Tide Wave Mooring (physical oceanography) | No data was collected |
| Balance | --- | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) | |
| Core Barrels | --- | Geology | DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_LER_1980_2012.zip (Sr/Ca and linear extension rates for five O. faveolata colonies) |
| Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | DRTO_coral_cores_field _photographs.zip (Underwater photographs of corals in-situ ) DRTO_coral_cores_slab_photographs.zip (Photographs of core slabs in core boxes) DRTO_coral_cores_xrays.zip (X-ray images of core slabs) |
| HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K | --- | Light Temperature | 12CBC03-EN-pd-1 (Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs ) FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Dec2016.csv (Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2016 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys.) FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Nov2015.csv (Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2015 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys.) |
| Hydraulic Coring Drill | --- | Geology | |
| Tiles | --- | Experiments (biological) |
