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Field Activity Details for field activity 2014-321-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies - CREST (GX.22.MN00.E3R50.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Kimberly Yates, David Zawada

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): David Zawada

Data Type(s): Geochemical: Surveys (geochemical), Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Core the reef tract and deploy SET stations

Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)

Start Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2014-08-18

End Date: 2014-08-29

Equipment Used: Hydraulic Coring Drill, Ocean Carbon System (OCS), Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Garmin GPS

Information to be Derived: SET stations deployed

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: SET stations deployed

Staff: Christopher Reich, Billy Reynolds, Nathan Smiley, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Lauren Toth

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Crocker Reef, Florida, USA

Boundaries
North: 24.94248351 South: 24.83012719 West: -80.7674 East: -80.47360569

Platform(s):

photo of Sallenger
Sallenger
photo of Twin Vee (Jabba Jaw)
Twin Vee (Jabba Jaw)

Publications

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.

Yates, K.K., Moore, C.S., Smiley, N.A., 2019, Time series of autonomous carbonate system parameter measurements from Crocker Reef, Florida, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90NCI8T.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Hydraulic Coring Drill --- Geology
FKRT_Coral_Based_DeltaR (ΔR estimates for the 68 corals from the FKRT, description of those coral samples, sample locations, and summary of data used to calculate ΔR.)
FKRT_Holocene_U-Series_Data ( U-series data used to determine the 230Th ages of 68 Holocene corals from the FKRT.)
Modeled_OpenOcean_DeltaR_vs_230Th (Statistical model output of open-ocean ΔR variability from 8,000 years BP to present with a 5-year time step using 230Th age to derive age before present. All statistical analyses were conducted using MATLAB ® software (v. 9.1).)
Modeled_OpenOcean_DeltaR_vs_Conventional_14C (Modeled predictions of ΔR for open-ocean locations in south Florida over the range of conventional radiocarbon ages from 7,500 years ago to present with a 5-year time step. All statistical analyses were conducted using MATLAB ® software (v. 9.1).)
FKRT_Holocene_Radiocarbon_Data (Radiocarbon data used to determine the conventional radiocarbon ages of 68 Holocene corals from the FKRT.)
Modeled_Nearshore_DeltaR_vs_230Th (Statistical model output of nearshore ΔR variability from 9,500 years ago to present with a 5-year time step using 230Th age to derive age before present. All statistical analyses were conducted using MATLAB ® software (v. 9.1).)
Modeled_Nearshore_DeltaR_vs_Conventional_14C (Modeled predictions of ΔR for nearshore locations in south Florida over the range of conventional radiocarbon ages from 9,000 years ago to present with a 5-year time step. All statistical analyses were conducted using MATLAB ® software (v. 9.1).)
DeltaR_Data_Screening_Summary (Summary of screening procedures performed on the data and description of why some data were removed from the statistical models of DeltaR)
Ocean Carbon System (OCS) --- Experiments (geochemical)
Surveys (geochemical)
Crocker-Reef-OCSv1-07192013-to-10272014.csv (Contains measured parameters from an autonomous ocean carbon system)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Garmin GPS --- Navigation

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