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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-352-FA

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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: 2017-10-30

End Date: 2017-11-08

Equipment Used: Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus), Settling plates, Balance, HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger, Other, GPS , Digital Camera

Information to be Derived: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for corals Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months. We also did hurricane Irma impact assessments using NOAA protocol.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: We documented and repaired damage to calcification station blocks that were dislodged by Hurricane Irma. We weighed, photographed, and measured coral colonies that survive. Collected and swapped algae tiles.

Staff: Lucy Bartlett, Ilsa Kuffner, Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Biscayne National Park, Fowey Rocks Light (Homestead, FL) FKNMS, Crocker Reef (Islamorada, 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

Other

Publications

Chapron, L., Kuffner, I.B., Kemp, D.W., Hulver, A.M., Keister, E., Stathakopoulos, A., Bartlett, L.A., Lyons, E.O., Grottoli, A.G., 2023, Experimental Coral-Physiology Data for Acropora palmata in Florida, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FIBAKX.

Kuffner, I.B., 2018, Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs of the Florida Keys, U.S.A. (ver. 3.0, March 2018): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1TZK.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) --- Temperature
Tide
Wave
Mooring (physical oceanography)
No data was collected
Settling plates --- Experiments (biological)
Surveys (biological)
No data was collected
Balance --- Experiments (biological)
Surveys (biological)
No data was collected
HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger --- Temperature
FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Nov2017.zip (Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2017 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys)
Other --- --- ---
GPS combined with temp dataNavigation
No data was collected
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video

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