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: 2015-05-17
End Date: 2015-05-30
Equipment Used: HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger, Ohaus Balance, 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. Deploying new coral specimens of Acropora cervicornis and Porites astreoides.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Measured buoyant mass of n = 10 colonies of Orbicella faveolata and n = 10 Acropora cervicornis, and dry mass of crustose coralline algae gained on n = 10 tiles from Pulaski Shoal, Dry Tortugas National Park. Maintenance of stations completed. Obtained samples from O. faveolata colonies using tile saw, transplanted remaining live halves of colonies back to the reef. Downloaded underwater temperature data from Pulaski Shoal covering last six months. Took underwater photographs. Measured buoyant mass and deployed n = 10 new colonies of Porites astreoides and n = 10 Acropora cervicornis colonies at Pulaski Shoal.
Staff: Ilsa Kuffner, Jennifer Morrison, Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-313-FA
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:
Dry Tortugas National Park
| 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.
Gallery, D.N., Green, M.L., Kuffner, I.B., Lenz, E.A., Toth, L.T., 2021, Genetic structure and diversity of the mustard hill coral Porites astreoides along the Florida Keys reef tract: Marine Biodiversity, Mar. Biodivers., v. 51 no. 4, doi: 10.1007/s12526-021-01196-7.
Gallery, D.N., Toth, L.T., Kuffner, I.B., 2021, DNA microsatellite markers for Mustard Hill coral (Porites astreoides) from the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R8NZ2J.
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., Lenz, E.A., Bartlett, L.A., Stathakopoulos, A., Morrison, J.M., 2021, Experimental coral-growth and physiological data and time-series imagery data for Porites astreoides in the Florida Keys, U.S.A. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P955KBD3.
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.
Stathakopoulos, A., Toth, L.T., Modys, A.B., Johnson, S.A., Kuffner, I.B., 2025, Discovery of Late Holocene-aged Acropora palmata reefs in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA: The past as a key to the future? The Depositional Record, Depositional Rec, v. 11 no. 3, pp. 808–828, doi: 10.1002/dep2.70005.
| 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.) 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) |
| Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | --- | Navigation |
