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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-332-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies - CREST (GX.22.MN00.E3R50.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Lauren Toth

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Hunter Wilcox

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collecting cores of coral-reef framework (drill coring)

Vehicle(s): White Dodge Pickup - White, Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)

Start Port/Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida

End Port/Location: Monroe County, Florida (Islamorada and Marathon)

Start Date: 2016-08-15

End Date: 2016-08-26

Equipment Used: Garmin GPS, Hydraulic Coring Drill

Information to be Derived: Trends in Holocene reef development

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected three Holocene reef cores from Western Sambo reef. Collected GPS data from two of the three core holes.

Staff: Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Hunter Wilcox

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Western Sambo and Sand Key Reefs, Lower Florida Keys

Boundaries
North: 24.63770673 South: 24.44308649 West: -81.9333 East: -81.52813721

Platform(s):

photo of Halimeda
Halimeda
photo of Twin Vee (Jabba Jaw)
Twin Vee (Jabba Jaw)

Publications

Toth, L.T., Courtney, T.A., Colella, M.A., Kupfner Johnson, S.A., Ruzicka, R.R., 2022, The past, present, and future of coral reef growth in the Florida Keys: Global Change Biology, Glob Change Biol, v. 28 no. 17, pp. 5294–5309, doi: 10.1111/gcb.16295.

Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., 2019, The absolute and relative composition of Holocene Reef Cores from the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93XXXA0.

Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., Kuffner, I.B., 2018, Descriptive core logs, core photographs, radiocarbon ages, and accretion data from Holocene reef cores collected throughout the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7NV9HJX.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Garmin GPS --- Navigation
Hydraulic Coring Drill --- Geology

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