Multi-species Coral Sr/Ca Based Sea-Surface Temperature (SST) Reconstruction Data Using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from Dry Tortugas National Park, FL

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Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Jennifer A. Flannery
Originator: Julie N. Richey
Originator: Kaustubh Thirumalai
Originator: Richard Z. Poore
Originator: Kristine L. DeLong
Publication_Date: 20161027
Title:

Multi-species Coral Sr/Ca Based Sea-Surface Temperature (SST) Reconstruction Data Using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from Dry Tortugas National Park, FL

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release
Issue_Identification: doi:10.5066/F7CC0XS9

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CC0XS9

Description:

Abstract:

This data release includes new sub annual and mean annual Sr/Ca records from two species of massive coral, Orbicella faveolata (coral B3) and Siderastrea siderea (coral CG2), from the Dry Tortugas National Park, FL (DTNP). We combine these new records with published Sr/Ca data from three additional S. siderea coral (DeLong et al., 2014) to generate a 278-year long multi-species stacked Sr/Ca-SST record from DRTO.

Purpose:

In this study we present two new coral Sr/Ca-SST records from DTNP with well-constrained chronologies and approximately monthly sampling resolution. These new records are combined with three published Sr/Ca-SST records from DTNP (DeLong et al., 2014) to generate a stacked Sr/Ca-SST record that incorporates five distinct coral colonies and two different species spanning 1733-2011. This new record is situated in a region that is sensitive to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) variations, and, therefore, provides insight into the link between the two systems.

Supplemental_Information:

The coral samples and derived data were collected under the National Park Service Scientific Research and Collecting permits DRTO-2008-SCI-0015 and DRTO-2012-SCI-0001; accession numbers DRTO-241 and DRTO-353.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1837
Ending_Date: 2012

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.7728
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.0956
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.59047
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.62687

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:22a722f4-c79b-4a23-9063-f3cb51a6c587

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: coral
Theme_Keyword: sclerochronology
Theme_Keyword: paleoclimatology
Theme_Keyword: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
Theme_Keyword: Sr/Ca
Theme_Keyword: Strontium/Calcium

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: biota

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: coelenterates
Theme_Keyword: aquatic biology
Theme_Keyword: marine geology
Theme_Keyword: geochemistry

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System
Place_Keyword: Dry Tortugas National Park
Place_Keyword: Florida Keys
Place_Keyword: Florida
Place_Keyword: United States

Stratum:

Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: Global Change Master Science Directory
Stratum_Keyword: seafloor

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Temporal_Keyword: Modern

Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints:

Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. The U.S. Geological Survey requests to be acknowledged as originator of these data in future products or derivative research.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Jennifer A. Flannery
Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th St. South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8043
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jflannery@usgs.gov

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

DeLong, K. L., J. A. Flannery, R. Z. Poore, T. M. Quinn, C. R. Maupin, K. Lin, and C. C. Shen

Publication_Date: 2014
Title:

A reconstruction of sea surface temperature variability in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico from 1734 to 2008 C.E. using cross-dated Sr/Ca records from the coral Siderastrea siderea

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Journal Article

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Flannery, J. A., and R. Z. Poore
Publication_Date: 2013
Title:

Sr/Ca Proxy Sea-Surface Temperature Reconstructions from Modern and Holocene Montastraea faveolata Specimens from the Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, U.S.A.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Journal Article
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2112/SI63-003.1

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report: No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted.

Logical_Consistency_Report: No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted.
Completeness_Report:

Dataset is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted.

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The United States Geological Survey collected the coral cores used in this study in the area of Pulaski Shoal at the northern end of DTNP in 2008 (S. siderea colonies A and F1, utilized in DeLong et al., 2014; O. faveolata colony B3) and 2012 (S. siderea colony CG2). Another S. siderea colony (93DRYSS2) was collected from DTNP in 1993 (DeLong et al., 2014). Subsampling of both coral species was done using a tri-axial micromill. Skeletal samples of O. faveolata B3 were removed along a continuous thecal wall with a 0.5 mm drill-bit and 0.5 mm forward increment, and for Siderastrea siderea, a 1.0 mm drill-bit with a 0.417 mm forward increment was used. Between 88 and 237 μg of subsampled skeletal powder was weighed out for each sample from each of the corals and was acidified using ultrapure 2% HNO3 in order to obtain sample solutions with a target Ca concentration of 20 ppm. A PerkinElmer 7300 dual view inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) was used to make the Sr/Ca determinations. The Sr/Ca records were converted to SST using calibration equations specific to each colony (O. faveolata: Sr/Ca = -0.0392*SST + 10.205; S. siderea: Sr/Ca = -0.043*SST + 10.11). The Sr/Ca-SST records produced in this study using O. faveolata and S. siderea were combined with four Sr/Ca-SST records based on S. siderea from DeLong et al. (2014) and composited into a stacked Sr/Ca-SST record spanning 1733–2011. We incorporated analytical and calibration uncertainty (S. siderea, DeLong et al. 2014; O. faveolata, Flannery and Poore, 2013) in a Monte Carlo framework (n=5000) while converting the Sr/Ca records to SST, prior to combining them. A median SST stack along with corresponding 32nd, and 68th percentile error bounds were produced. Frequency analysis using the multi-taper method (number of tapers = 3) was performed using KSpectra version 3.4.3 with a red noise AR1 process to test for confidence at the 95% level.

Process_Date: 20080808

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword.

Process_Date: 20201013
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross

Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label:

DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_1837_2012.csv, DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_1837_2012.xlsx

Entity_Type_Definition:

These files contain attribute information for the Sr/Ca data collected from Orbicella faveolata B3 (1893-2008) and Siderastrea siderea CG2 (1837-2012). When viewing DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_1837_2012.csv, please note that empty fields (when no data are available) are not represented by any characters in this Comma Separated Value (CSV) file, thus one only sees the separator commas “,”. To view the data in a tab-delimited format arranged by column, please use the Excel spreadsheet.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date CG2 Sub Annual
Attribute_Definition:

A date for the sub annual Sr/Ca data for coral core CG2 (Siderastrea siderea)

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1837.04
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2012.12
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal Year

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CG2 Sub Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol)
Attribute_Definition:

Sub Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol) values for coral core CG2 (Siderastrea siderea)

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 8.652
Range_Domain_Maximum: 9.371
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: mmol/mol

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date CG2 Annual
Attribute_Definition:

A date in YYYY format for corresponding mean annual Sr/Ca values. Only years with complete annual cycles are included; therefore, the dataset stops at 2011.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1837
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2011
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Year

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CG2 Mean Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol)
Attribute_Definition:

Mean Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol) values for coral core CG2 (Siderastrea siderea). Values were computed by taking the average of all Sr/Ca values within a calendar year.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 8.909
Range_Domain_Maximum: 9.111
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: mmol/mol

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CG2 Extension Rate (mm/yr)
Attribute_Definition:

CG2 Extension Rate (mm/yr). Values were computed by measuring the distance between summer Sr/Ca values. NaN represents years that did not have complete data.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 2.1
Range_Domain_Maximum: 7.5
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: mm/yr

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date B3 Sub Annual
Attribute_Definition:

Dates for corresponding Sub Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol) values for coral core B3 (Orbicella faveolata).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1893.29
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2008.63
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal year

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: B3 Sub Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol)
Attribute_Definition:

Sub Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol) values for coral core B3 (Orbicella faveolata).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 8.925
Range_Domain_Maximum: 9.644
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: mmol/mol

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date B3 Annual
Attribute_Definition: Date in YYYY format for corresponding mean annual Sr/Ca values.
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1893
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2008
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Year

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: B3 Mean Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol)
Attribute_Definition:

Mean annual Sr/Ca values for coral core B3 (Orbicella faveolata).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 9.106
Range_Domain_Maximum: 9.337
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: mmol/mol

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: B3 Extension Rate (mm/yr)
Attribute_Definition:

Extension rate values for coral core B3 (Orbicella faveolata). Values were calculated by measuring the distance between summer Sr/Ca values.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 4.5
Range_Domain_Maximum: 13
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: mm/yr

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date Composite
Attribute_Definition:

Date in the format of YYYY for the corresponding composite SST (ºC) values. These values include data from four Sr/Ca-SST records based on S. siderea from DeLong et al. (2014).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1733
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2011
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Year

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Composite SST (ºC)
Attribute_Definition:

Stacked Sr/Ca-SST (ºC) data. Data was produced by independently calibrating the Sr/Ca records to their species-specific calibration equations and stacking them together with two previously published Sr/Ca-SST records.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 23.74
Range_Domain_Maximum: 27.63
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Degrees Centigrade

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The entity and attribute information provided here describes the tabular data associated with the dataset. Please review the detailed descriptions that are provided (the individual attribute descriptions) for information on the values that appear as fields/table entries of the dataset.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

The entity and attribute information was generated by the individual and/or agency identified as the originator of the dataset. Please review the rest of the metadata record for additional details and information.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Jennifer A. Flannery
Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th St. South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8043
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jflannery@usgs.gov

Distribution_Liability:

This publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: CSV (Comma Separated Values)
Format_Version_Number: none

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-F7CC0XS9/data/DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_1837_2012.zip

Fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20201013
Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Jennifer A. Flannery
Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Position: Chemist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th St. South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8043
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jflannery@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

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