Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Subsidence (GX.16.MN00.F2211.00)
Principal Investigator(s): Nicole Khan, Lauren Toth
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Billy Reynolds
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collecting coral framework samples (hand collection) from dredging outcrop exposure. Collecting peat cores and elevation data from mangrove deposits.
Vehicle(s): Rental Vehicle
Start Port/Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida
End Port/Location: Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida
Start Date: 2016-07-06
End Date: 2016-07-12
Equipment Used: Collapsible Tripod, GPS Pole, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Peat Corer, Push Corer, Other
Information to be Derived: Evaluation of subsidence on the Florida platform
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected peat-core records from Swan Key, Biscayne National Park, FL. We collected surface samples for foramineriferal analysis, took cores to reconstruct island stratigraphy (depth to Pleistocene bedrock), and replicate 6 m peat cores from the center of the island that will be analyzed to produce sea-level reconstructions. All sampling locations were surveyed with DGPS.
Staff: Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Government Cut/Miami Beach
Boundaries | |||
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North: 25.86509337 | South: 25.26417811 | West: -80.4666 | East: -80.00653076 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Khan, N.S., Ashe, E., Moyer, R.P., Kemp, A.C., Engelhart, S.E., Brain, M.J., Toth, L.T., Chappel, A., Christie, M., Kopp, R.E., Horton, B.P., 2022, Relative sea-level change in South Florida during the past ~5000Â years: Global and Planetary Change, v. 216, 103902 p., doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103902.
Khan, N.S., Toth, L.T., Moyer, R.P., Shaw, J.E., Capar, P., Kemp, A.C., Engelhart, S.E., Horton, B.P., 2022, Mangrove Peat Radiocarbon Ages From Snipe and Swan Key, FL: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OOL3L4.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Collapsible Tripod | --- | Benchmarks Navigation Profiles Transects | |
GPS Pole | --- | Navigation Profiles Transects | |
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | |
Peat Corer | --- | Biology Geology | South_Florida_mangrove_peat_radiocarbon_data (Radiocarbon ages from mangrove peat cores collected at two sites in south Florida) |
Push Corer | --- | Geology | |
Other | --- | --- | --- |