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): James Leichter (Scripps), Richard Aronson (Florida Tech)
Information Specialist(s): Lauren Toth
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect data from six coral reefs in the Gulf of Chiriqui and Gulf of Panama 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: Tampa, FL
End Port/Location: Panama City, Panama
Start Date: 2017-09-19
End Date: 2017-10-05
Equipment Used: Other, Digital Video, Digital Camera
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: Collected permanent quadrat photos, video transects, line-point-intercept data, coral size and weight measurements, and temperature data
Staff: Lauren Toth
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Florida Institute of Technology is the data owner and therefore, data archiving is handled by them.
Location:
Pacific Panama
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 8.72425441 | South: 6.98107867 | West: -82.88635254 | East: -77.48104422 |
Platform(s):
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 |
