Other ID: CREST Biogenic Calcification
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Ilsa Kuffner
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Meteorology, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To locate appropriate coral colonies for 2012 sampling trip and deploy underwater temperature data loggers at each location where corals are marked for sampling.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: St. Thomas, USVI
End Port/Location: St. John, USVI
Start Date: 2011-09-07
End Date: 2011-09-13
Equipment Used: Global Positioning System (GPS), HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K, Camera, Digital, Hand Held
Information to be Derived: GPS coordinates for coral colonies appropriate for paleoclimate research.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: T Hickey, Ilsa Kuffner
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
U.S. Virgin Islands
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 18.53712567 | South: 17.08631523 | West: -63.7852 | East: -62.19215646 |
Platform(s):
Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Toth, L.T., Kuffner, I.B., Poore, R.Z., 2018, Quantifying Uncertainty in Sr/Ca-Based Estimates of SST From the Coral_Orbicella faveolata_: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 33 no. 9, pp. 958–973, doi: 10.1029/2018PA003389.
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., Roberts, K.E., Flannery, J.A., Morrison, J.M., Richey, J.N., 2016, Data for evaluating the Sr/Ca temperature proxy with in-situ temperature in the western Atlantic coral Siderastrea siderea: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XP732P.
Kuffner, I.B., Roberts, K.E., Flannery, J.A., Morrison, J.M., Richey, J.N., 2017, Fidelity of the Sr/Ca proxy in recording ocean temperature in the western Atlantic coral Siderastrea siderea: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 18, doi: 10.1002/2016gc006640.
Kuffner, I.B., Toth, L.T., Hudson, J.H., Goodwin, W.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Bartlett, L.A., Whitcher, E.M., 2019, Improving estimates of coral reef construction and erosion with in situ measurements: Limnology and Oceanography, Limnol Oceanogr, v. 64 no. 5, pp. 2283–2294, doi: 10.1002/lno.11184.
Kuffner, I.B., 2015, Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs of the Florida Keys, U.S.A., 2009 to 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1TZK.
Reich, C.D., Kuffner, I.B., Hickey, T.D., Morrison, J.M., Flannery, J.A., 2013, Complexity of nearshore strontium-to-calcium ratio variability in a core sample of the massive coral Siderastrea siderea obtained in Coral Bay, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1092, 12 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131092.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | --- | Navigation | |
| HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K | --- | Light Temperature | 11CBC02-EN-pd-1 (Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs) 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.) |
| Camera, Digital, Hand Held | --- | Photo |
