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): Lauren Toth
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Hunter Wilcox
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collecting cores of coral-reef framework (drill coring)
Vehicle(s): White Dodge Pickup - White, Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)
Start Port/Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida
End Port/Location: Monroe County, Florida (Islamorada and Marathon)
Start Date: 2016-08-15
End Date: 2016-08-26
Equipment Used: Garmin GPS, Hydraulic Coring Drill
Information to be Derived: Trends in Holocene reef development
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected three Holocene reef cores from Western Sambo reef. Collected GPS data from two of the three core holes.
Staff: Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Hunter Wilcox
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Western Sambo and Sand Key Reefs, Lower Florida Keys
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 24.63770673 | South: 24.44308649 | West: -81.9333 | East: -81.52813721 |
Platform(s):
 Halimeda |  22-ft Twin Vee (R/V G. Hill) |
Hsia, S., Toth, L.T., Mortlock, R.A., Stathakopoulos, A., Kerans, C., 2024, U-series Ages and Elevation Data of Late Pleistocene Corals From the Florida Keys: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EJBYKZ.
Toth, L.T., Courtney, T.A., Colella, M.A., Kupfner Johnson, S.A., Ruzicka, R.R., 2022, The past, present, and future of coral reef growth in the Florida Keys: Global Change Biology, Glob Change Biol, v. 28 no. 17, pp. 5294–5309, doi: 10.1111/gcb.16295.
Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., 2019, The absolute and relative composition of Holocene Reef Cores from the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93XXXA0.
Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., Hsia, S., Weinstein, D., 2025, Shifting baselines of coral-reef species composition from the Late Pleistocene to the present in the Florida Keys: The Depositional Record, Depositional Rec, v. 11 no. 3, pp. 893–916, doi: 10.1002/dep2.70009.
Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., Hsia, S., and Weinstein, D., 2025, The relative composition of Late Pleistocene coral reefs in the Florida Keys: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13IZY8R.
Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., Kuffner, I.B., 2018, Descriptive core logs, core photographs, radiocarbon ages, and accretion data from Holocene reef cores collected throughout the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7NV9HJX.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garmin GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Hydraulic Coring Drill | --- | Geology |
