Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): Other, USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Other (Other), Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies - CREST (GX.22.MN00.E3R50.00)
Principal Investigator(s): Lauren Toth
Affiliate Investigator(s): Drs. Richard Aronson (Florida Institute of Technology) and James Leichter (Scripps Intitution of Oceanography)
Information Specialist(s): Lauren Toth
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Establish experiments on three coral reefs in the Gulf of Chriqui that will be used to monitor coral abundance, coral calcification, and bioerosion in relation to oceanographic variability over the next three years.
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Saint Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: Panama City, Pamama
Start Date: 2016-02-25
End Date: 2016-03-16
Equipment Used: Other, Digital Video, Digital Camera, Garmin GPS, Other
Information to be Derived: Data on coral reef state through time (coral percent cover, etc), coral growth, bioerosion rates
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Experiments were established in Feb/Mar 2016. They will be re-sampled every 6 months for the next three years
Staff: Lauren Toth
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Other Lead Organizations: Florida Institute of Technology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Northeastern University, and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Other Funding Sources: NSF
Other vessels: We will hire local vessels in the Gulf of Chiriqui and will use the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Anibal in the Gulf of Panama. All vessels will be operated by hired drivers from Panama.
Location:
Pacific Panama, Tropical Easter Pacific
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 9.11023264 | South: 6.70612694 | West: -83.1226 | East: -77.65087891 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Enochs, I.C., Toth, L.T., Kirkland, A., Manzello, D.P., Kolodziej, G., Morris, J.T., Holstein, D.M., Schlenz, A., Randall, C.J., MateÌ, J.L., Leichter, J.J., Aronson, R.B., 2021, Upwelling and the persistence of coralâreef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific: Ecological Monographs, Ecol Monogr, v. 91 no. 4, doi: 10.1002/ecm.1482.
Gravinese, P., Toth, L., Randall, C., Aronson, R., 2018, How Do Upwelling and El Niño Impact Coral Reef Growth? A Guided, Inquiry-Based Lesson: Oceanography, Oceanog, v. 31 no. 4, pp. 184–188, doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2018.424.
Rodriguez-Ruano, V., Toth, L.T., Aronson, R.B., 2023, Assigning causality to events in the Holocene record of coral reefs: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, Sp, v. 529 no. 1, pp. 281–292, doi: 10.1144/SP529-2022-47.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Video | --- | Video | |
| Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | |
| Garmin GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
