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): Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)
Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: Dry Tortugas National Park, FL
Start Date: 2019-09-15
End Date: 2019-09-20
Equipment Used: Hammer and Chisel, GPS , Digital Camera, Digital Video
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: Collected 7 A. palmata and 5 A. cervicornis samples. Collected images, video, and GPS data of fossil Acropora frameworks.
Staff: Jennifer Flannery, Dominique Gallery, Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-340-FA
Location:
Dry Tortugas National Park
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 24.701006 | South: 24.539872 | West: -83.028226 | East: -82.713868 |
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammer and Chisel | --- | Biology Geology | No data was collected |
| GPS | Used a small, handheld Garmin GPS | Navigation | |
| Digital Camera | Used a GoPro camera in an underwater housing | Photo Video | |
| Digital Video | Used a GoPro camera in an underwater housing | Video |
