Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): Dry Tortugas National Park
Funding Program(s): Holocene Reef Geology (GX.22.MN00.E3R90.00)
Principal Investigator(s): Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Lauren Toth
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Determine the geographic extent of elkhorn coral populations in the past. Sample subfossil elkhorn corals for radiometric dating.
Vehicle(s): White Dodge Pickup - White
Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: Dry Tortugas National Park, FL
Start Date: 2018-06-17
End Date: 2018-06-23
Equipment Used: GPS , Digital Video, Camera, Digital, Hand Held, Other
Information to be Derived: Hand samples from sub-fossil Acropora palmata (elkhorn coral), GPS coordinates of locations with subfossil A. palmata.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Performed diver surveys to locate sub-fossil A. palmata reefs. GPS locations of identified sites were noted and 10 coral rock samples were taken using a hammer and chisel.
Staff: Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Lauren Toth
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Dry Tortugas National Park
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 24.70100563 | South: 24.53987238 | West: -83.02822628 | East: -82.7138681 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Modys, A.B., Oleinik, A., Mortlock, R.A., Toth, L.T., Precht, W.F., 2022, Climate-modulated range expansion of reef-building coral communities off southeast Florida during the late Holocene: Frontiers in Marine Science, Front. Mar. Sci., v. 9, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.995256.
Stathakopoulos, A., Toth, L.T., Modys, A.B., Johnson, S.A., Kuffner, I.B., 2024, Radiometric Ages and Descriptive Data for Late Holocene Acropora spp. Corals From Dry Tortugas National Park: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13L6DTF.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPS | Used a handheld GPS unit and the GPS unit aboard the NPS vessel to mark coordinates of sites/samples | Navigation | |
| Digital Video | --- | Video | |
| Camera, Digital, Hand Held | --- | Photo | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
