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 | |||
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North: 25.55040184 | South: 24.42902087 | West: -82.6227 | East: -80.01888602 |
Platform(s):
Halimeda | Other |
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.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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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 data | Navigation | No data was collected |
Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video |