Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Christina Kellogg
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Christina Kellogg
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Visual Identification: Ground Truthing
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To characterize the microbial community associated with the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Gulfport, MS
End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 2010-09-20
End Date: 2010-10-03
Equipment Used: Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Kraken 2, Settling Plates
Information to be Derived: Bacterial-community species composition, presence of specific functional genes, identification of novel microbial species
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Platform: R/V Cape Hatteras and Kraken ROV. OPS: Ron Hall was required for 3 hrs to construct stacks of settling plates.
Location:
Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 31.10939775 | South: 21.93623983 | West: -97.6892 | East: -77.57202983 |
Platform(s):
 Cape Hatteras |
Demopoulos, A.W.J., Ross, S.W., Kellogg, C.A., Morrison, C.L., Nizinski, M.S., Prouty, N.G., Bourque, J.R., Galkiewicz, J.P., Gray, M.A., Springmann, M.J., Coykendall, D.K., Miller, A., Rhode, M., Quattrini, A., Ames, C.L., Brooke, S.D., McClain Counts, J., Roark, E.B., Buster, N.A., Phillips, R.M., and Frometa, J., 2017, Deepwater Program: Lophelia II, continuing ecological research on deep-sea corals and deep-reef habitats in the Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1139, 287 p.
Galkiewicz, J.P., Stellick, S.H., Gray, M.A., Kellogg, C.A., 2012, Cultured fungal associates from the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa: Deep Sea Research (Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers), v. 67, pp. 12–20, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.05.001.
Kellogg, C.A., 2019, Microbiomes of stony and soft deep-sea corals share rare core bacteria: Microbiome, Microbiome, v. 7 no. 1, 90 p., doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0697-3.
Kellogg, C.A., Goldsmith, D., Gray, M.A., 2017, Biogeographic comparison of Lophelia-associated bacterial communities in the Western Atlantic reveals conserved core microbiome: Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Microbiology, v. 8, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00796.
Kellogg, C.A., Goldsmith, D.B., 2018, Cold-water coral metagenomes (Lophelia pertusa) from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Oceanâraw data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9AA0H3B.
Kellogg, C.A., Goldsmith, D.B., 2017, Cold-water coral microbiomes (Lophelia pertusa) from Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean: raw data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7M32SXM.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Kraken 2 | --- | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) Photo Video Biology Geology Single Beam Ground Truthing Species ID | Lophelia_raw_data.zip (Zip file containing raw data and MIMARKS metadata.) Lophelia_metagenomes_raw_data_1.zip (Zip file containing raw data for CK1-CK6, and MIMS sampling metadata) Lophelia_metagenomes_raw_data_2.zip (Zip file containing raw data for CK7-CK12, PhiX control, and MIMS sampling metadata.) |
| Settling Plates | --- | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) |
