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): Ford F-350 Dually Silver (GSA)
Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 2016-04-21
End Date: 2016-04-29
Equipment Used: Crustose Coralline Algae (CCA) Tiles, HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger, Digital Camera, Settling Plates, Global Positioning System (GPS)
Information to be Derived: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for corals Porites astreoides and Acropora cervicornis and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Measured buoyant mass of n = 40 colonies of Porites astreoides and n = 20 Acropora cervicornis, and dry mass of crustose coralline algae gained on n = 40 tiles from Fowey Rocks, Crocker Reef, Sombrero Reef, and Dry Tortugas National Park. Maintenance of stations completed. Downloaded underwater temperature data from Fowey, Crocker, Sombrero Reef, and Dry Tortugas National Park covering last six months. Downloaded underwater temperature data from Pulaski Shoal covering last six months. Took underwater photographs.
Staff: Ilsa Kuffner, Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-337-FA
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) Dry Tortugas National Park (Key West, FL)
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 25.55040184 | South: 24.42902087 | West: -82.6227 | East: -80.01888602 |
Platform(s):
 Halimeda |
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crustose Coralline Algae (CCA) Tiles | --- | Experiments (biological) | |
| 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.) |
| Digital Camera | Olympus 5050c with underwater housing | Photo Video | |
| Settling Plates | --- | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) | |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | For site location | Navigation | No data was collected |
