Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s):
Affiliate Investigator(s): Eugene Shinn (USGS SPCMSC), Harold Hudson (USGS SPCMSC)
Information Specialist(s): Lauren Toth
Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect coral cores throughout the Florida Keys Reef to determine its internal anatomy and age
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Key West, Florida
End Port/Location: Key West, Florida
Start Date: 1976-07-01
End Date: 1976-09-11
Equipment Used: Hydraulic Coring Drill
Information to be Derived: lithologic description, age
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 29 coral cores to determine its internal anatomy and age
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Key West. FL (Dry Tortugas, Lower Keys, Upper Keys, and Biscayne)
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 25.2218 | South: 24.624794 | West: -82.863464 | East: -80.1267 |
Platform(s):
Hsia, S., Toth, L.T., Mortlock, R.A., Stathakopoulos, A., Kerans, C., 2024, U-series Ages and Elevation Data of Late Pleistocene Corals From the Florida Keys: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EJBYKZ.
Jacobs, J.A., Richey, J.N., Flannery, J.A., Thirumalai, K., Toth, L.T., 2025, Snapshots of mid-to-late Holocene sea-surface temperature variability from a subtropical western Atlantic coral reef: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 663, 112777 p., doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112777.
Jacobs, J.A., Richey, J.N., Flannery, J.A., Toth, L.T., 2025, Sr/Ca, Oxygen Isotope, and Linear Extension Data for Five Holocene Orbicella faveolata Corals From Dry Tortugas and Marquesas Keys, Florida, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1TCYNHY.
Reich, C., Streubert, M., Dwyer, B., Godbout, M., Muslic, A., Umberger, D., 2012, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center's core archive portal: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 626, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds626.
Shinn, E., Hudson, J.H., Halley, R.B., Lidz, B.H., 1977, Topographic control and accumulation rate of some holocene coral reefs: South Florida and Dry Tortugas: Proceedings : Third International Coral Reef Symposium 2, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, pp. 1–7.
Stathakopoulos, A., Toth, L.T., Modys, A.B., Johnson, S.A., Kuffner, I.B., 2024, Radiometric Ages and Descriptive Data for Late Holocene Acropora spp. Corals From Dry Tortugas National Park: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13L6DTF.
Toth, L., Kuffner, I.B., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., 2015, A new record of the late Pleistocene coral Pocillopora palmata from the Dry Tortugas, Florida reef tract, USA: Palaios, v. 30 no. 12, pp. 827–835, doi: 10.2110/palo.2015.030.
Toth, L.T., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Ashe, E., Richey, J.N., 2017, Local radiocarbon reservoir age (ÎR) variability from the nearshore and open-ocean environments of the Florida Keys reef tract during the Holocene and associated U-series and radiocarbon data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P8492Q.
Toth, L.T., Courtney, T.A., Colella, M.A., Kupfner Johnson, S.A., Ruzicka, R.R., 2022, The past, present, and future of coral reef growth in the Florida Keys: Global Change Biology, Glob Change Biol, v. 28 no. 17, pp. 5294–5309, doi: 10.1111/gcb.16295.
Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., 2019, The absolute and relative composition of Holocene Reef Cores from the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93XXXA0.
Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., Hsia, S., Weinstein, D., 2025, Shifting baselines of coral-reef species composition from the Late Pleistocene to the present in the Florida Keys: The Depositional Record, Depositional Rec, v. 11 no. 3, pp. 893–916, doi: 10.1002/dep2.70009.
Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., Hsia, S., and Weinstein, D., 2025, The relative composition of Late Pleistocene coral reefs in the Florida Keys: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13IZY8R.
Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., Kuffner, I.B., 2018, Descriptive core logs, core photographs, radiocarbon ages, and accretion data from Holocene reef cores collected throughout the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7NV9HJX.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hydraulic Coring Drill | --- | Geology |
