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): Ilsa Kuffner
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Ilsa Kuffner
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates
Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually - Silver (GSA)
Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 2016-11-03
End Date: 2016-12-09
Equipment Used: Settling plates, Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus), Other, Digital Camera, GPS
Information to be Derived: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for corals Porites astreoides and Acropora cervicornis and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Field activity was split into three trips because of weather. Nov 4 - Fowey Rocks Nov 5 - Crocker Reef Nov 10 - Sombrero Reef Dec 6 to Dec 8 - Pulaski Shoal Light (PLS) and Pulaski Shoal West (PLW). During this phase of the trip we set up 10 new blocks at PLW with help from NPS.
Staff: Kyle Kelso, Ilsa Kuffner, Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Hunter Wilcox
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Biscayne National Park, Fowey Rocks Light (Homestead, FL) FKNMS, Crocker Reef (Islamorada, FL) FKNMS, Sombrero Reef (Marathon, FL) Dry Tortugas National Park (Key West, FL)
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 25.55040184 | South: 24.42902087 | West: -82.6227 | East: -80.01888602 |
Platform(s):
 Halimeda | Other |
Gallery, D.N., Green, M.L., Kuffner, I.B., Lenz, E.A., Toth, L.T., 2021, Genetic structure and diversity of the mustard hill coral Porites astreoides along the Florida Keys reef tract: Marine Biodiversity, Mar. Biodivers., v. 51 no. 4, doi: 10.1007/s12526-021-01196-7.
Gallery, D.N., Toth, L.T., Kuffner, I.B., 2021, DNA microsatellite markers for Mustard Hill coral (Porites astreoides) from the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R8NZ2J.
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., Lenz, E.A., Bartlett, L.A., Stathakopoulos, A., Morrison, J.M., 2021, Experimental coral-growth and physiological data and time-series imagery data for Porites astreoides in the Florida Keys, U.S.A. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P955KBD3.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Settling plates | --- | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) | |
| Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) | --- | Temperature Tide Wave Mooring (physical oceanography) | 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.) |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | |
| GPS | --- | Navigation |
