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    "tag": 19728,
    "title": "Underwater temperature at Buck Island Reef National Monument coral reefs, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands",
    "pubdate": "20260211",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": null,
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/spcmsc\/STX_coral_underwater_temps_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies (CREST) project (https:\/\/coastal.er.usgs.gov\/crest\/) provides science that helps resource managers tasked with the stewardship of coral reef resources. This data release provides underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes since 2019 at three coral reef locations in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The sites are on the fringing reef of the National Park Service\u2019s Buck Island Reef National Monument: Northwest Reef (NWR), Northeast Reef ('NER', also known as \u2018Scuba Cut\u2019), and South Forereef (SFR) and were the subject of related studies on reefs protecting shorelines published in Kuffner and others (2022) and Toth and others (2023). Measurements were made from June 2019 to October 2024. Temperatures were recorded with Onset\u00ae HOBO\u00ae Water Temp Pro V2 (U22-001) data loggers, in duplicate, at each site. Loggers were attached to concrete blocks fixed to the reef with stainless-steel rods and epoxy at depths of 7 to 13 feet (ft) of seawater.",
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        {
            "name": "Kuffner, Ilsa B.",
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        {
            "name": "Stathakopoulos, Anastasios",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ewen, Kristen A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Brennan, Rachel N.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
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            "code": "53",
            "name": "aquatic biology",
            "scope": "The scientific study of organisms living in or near water.  This term is to be used for the science of 'aquatic biology' and for  biological studies in fresh and brackish water. For marine biological studies, use 'marine biology'."
        },
        {
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            "name": "coelenterates",
            "scope": "Freshwater and marine invertebrates, such as corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones, belonging to the phylum Coelenterata and living as sedentary polyps or free swimming medusae."
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            "scope": "Biological communities formed by the skeletons of calcareous seawater organisms, usually corals."
        },
        {
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            "code": "1027",
            "name": "sea surface temperature",
            "scope": "Observed temperature of surface ocean waters, typically encompassing the entire mixed layer. Some observational methods, however, may measure a much smaller depth range.  Includes temperature data obtained in-situ or by remote sensing methods."
        },
        {
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            "code": "007",
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            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
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            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
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