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Field Activity Details for field activity 2001-303-FA

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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): Christopher Reich

Affiliate Investigator(s): Robert Halley (USGS SPCMSC), Don Hickey (USGS SPCMSC)

Information Specialist(s): Lauren Toth

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect cores at Biscayne National Park

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Key West, Florida

End Port/Location: Key West, Florida

Start Date: 2001-06-05

End Date: 2001-06-16

Equipment Used: Hydraulic Coring Drill

Information to be Derived: lithologic description, age, groundwater characterization and contaminants analyses

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected coral, sediment, and rock cores at Biscayne National Park

Staff: Christopher Reich

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Key West, FL (Biscayne National Park)

Boundaries
North: 25.4838 South: 25.3862 West: -80.2668 East: -80.1629

Platform(s):

Publications

Reich, C.D., Halley, R.B., Hickey, T., Swarzenski, P., 2006, Groundwater characterization and assessment of contaminants in marine areas of Biscayne National Park: National Park Service Water Resource Division Technical Report NPS/NRWRD/NRTR-2006/356, http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/reports/bisc_gw_char/index.html.

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., 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.

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Hydraulic Coring Drill --- Geology

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