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Field Activity Details for field activity 13CBC01

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Other ID: none

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): Ilsa Kuffner

Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo

Scientific Purpose/Goals: In support of the calcification monitoring network, we will be selecting and transplanting 50 corals from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary nursery.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Key West, FL

End Port/Location: Key West, FL

Start Date: 2013-03-11

End Date: 2013-03-15

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, Ohaus Balance, Coral Slabs, HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K

Information to be Derived: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for coral Montastraea faveolata

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Select, mount, and measure buoyant mass and length x width x height dimensions of n = 50 coral colonies to be placed at calcification monitoring stations this year.

Staff: Ilsa Kuffner

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Vehicle: Ford Excursion

Kuffner, I.B., Toth, L.T., Hudson, J.H., Goodwin, W.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Bartlett, L.A., and Whitcher, E.M., 2019, Experimental data on construction and erosion of Orbicella coral reefs in the Florida Keys, U.S.A.: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P92NVINW.

Location:

Fowey, Crocker, Sombrero, Pulaski

Boundaries
North: 24.86189932 South: 24.53717531 West: -81.6772 East: -80.31618886

Platform(s):

Publications

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., Toth, L.T., Hudson, J.H., Goodwin, W.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Bartlett, L.A., Whitcher, E.M., 2019, Experimental data on construction and erosion of Orbicella coral reefs in the Florida Keys, U.S.A. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P92NVINW.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
Ohaus Balance --- Experiments (biological)
Surveys (biological)
Orbicella_growth_FL_USA (Data describing the growth of corals in the Orbicella annularis species complex from 2013 to 2015 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys)
Coral Slabs --- Experiments (biological)
Surveys (biological)
HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K --- Light
Temperature
13CBC01-EN-pd-1 (Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs)
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.)
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.)

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