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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-650-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: 2016-323-FA

Status: Cancelled

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s): Ilsa Kuffner

Information Specialist(s): Curt Storlazzi

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

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: 2016-04-17

End Date: 2016-04-26

Equipment Used: digitalcamera, GPS, datalogger

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:

Staff: Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: SC FAN created from St Pete FAN; data to reside in Santa Cruz.
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):

photo of Halimeda
Halimeda

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
digitalcamera --- Photo
GPS --- Navigation
datalogger --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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