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: 2015-10-25
End Date: 2015-11-13
Equipment Used: HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger, Settling Plates, Digital Camera, Global Positioning System (GPS), Ohaus Balance
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: All sites were visiting and data obtained successfully. Coral bleaching killed all experimental corals at Looe Key - Mote nursery, so dead corals were weighed and brought back to SPCMSC. Experimental corals bleached at Crocker Reef but presently not bleached Sombrero Reef (though some partial mortality could have been from earlier bleaching), and appeared normally pigmented at Dry Tortugas and Biscayne N.P.
Staff: Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Other staff was Jennifer Morrison
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.
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., Bartels, E., Stathakopoulos, A., Enochs, I.C., Kolodziej, G., Toth L.T., Manzello, D.P., 2017, Experimental data comparing two coral grow-out methods in nursery-raised Acropora cervicornis: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7HH6H72.
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | --- | Temperature | 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.) 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.) |
| Settling Plates | PVC "cow tags" used to collect crustose coralline algae samples. | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) | Staghorn_coral_skeletal_data.zip (Growth and skeletal data for Acropora cervicornis corals) |
| Digital Camera | Cannon Rebel on tripod for still photos of experimental colonies while being weighed, "garden" photos taken with Sony Cybershot in underwater housing. | Photo Video | |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | GPS on R/v Halimeda | Navigation | |
| 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) |
