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): Ilsa Kuffner
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Ilsa Kuffner
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 2014-10-27
End Date: 2014-11-14
Equipment Used: HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger, Ohaus Balance, Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus), Other, Digital Camera, Global Positioning System (GPS)
Information to be Derived: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for corals Montastraea faveolata and Acropora cervicornis and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Completed site visits at all four sites. Collected underwater temperature data, photographs of corals and algae tiles, mass gained by corals and algae tiles over last six months.
Staff: Ilsa Kuffner, Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-308-FA_04-05
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:
Biscayne National Park, Fowey Rocks Light (Homestead, FL) FKNMS, Crocker Reef (Islamorada, FL) FKNMS, Crocker Reef (Key Largo, FL) FKNMS, Sombrero Reef (Marathon, FL) FKNMS, Looe Key coral nursery (Summerland Key, FL) Dry Tortugas National Park (Key West, FL)
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 25.55040184 | South: 24.42902087 | West: -82.6227 | East: -80.01888602 |
Platform(s):
 Halimeda |
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., 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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | --- | Temperature | 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.) 2014-332-FA-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.) |
| 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) |
| Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) | --- | Temperature Tide Wave Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | --- | Navigation |
