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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-367-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): Lucy Bartlett, Ilsa Kuffner, Anastasios Stathakopoulos

Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates.

Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)

Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2019-10-30

End Date: 2019-11-21

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

Information to be Derived: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for Acropora palmata corals and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for Acropora palmata corals and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months. Field photographs of calcification stations and photographs of corals.

Staff: Ilsa Kuffner, Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-316-FA

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: 25.55235365 South: 24.42902087 West: -83.12255859 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.

Chapron, L., Kuffner, I.B., Kemp, D.W., Hulver, A.M., Keister, E.F., Stathakopoulos, A., Bartlett, L.A., Lyons, E.O., Grottoli, A.G., 2023, Heterotrophy, microbiome, and location effects on restoration efficacy of the threatened coral Acropora palmata: Communications Earth & Environment, v. 4 no. 1, 233 p., doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00888-1.

Kuffner, I., Stathakopoulos, A., Toth, L., Bartlett, L., 2020, Reestablishing a stepping-stone population of the threatened elkhorn coral Acropora palmata to aid regional recovery: Endangered Species Research, Endang. Species. Res., v. 43, pp. 461–473, doi: 10.3354/esr01083.

Kuffner, I.B., 2020, Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs of the Florida Keys, U.S.A, v. 5: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1TZK.

Kuffner, I.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Toth, L.T., Bartlett, L.A., 2020, Experimental coral-growth rates and time-series imagery data for Acropora palmata in the Florida Keys, U.S.A. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KZEGXY.

Kuffner, I.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Toth, L.T., Bartlett, L.A., 2020, Experimental coral-growth data and time-series imagery for Acropora palmata in the Florida Keys, U.S.A. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KZEGXY.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Coral Slabs --- Experiments (biological)
Surveys (biological)
GPS Garmin GPS unit mounted on R/V Halimeda.Navigation
HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger --- Temperature
FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Nov2019.zip (Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2019 at six off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys.)
Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus)combined with water temp datasetTemperature
Tide
Wave
Mooring (physical oceanography)
No data was collected
Other --- --- ---
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
Palmata_growth_annualized_FL_USA (Data describing the growth of the coral Acropora palmata from 2018 to 2019 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys during the 18-month study)
FL_Palmata_photo_record (Photographic time-series images of coral condition during the growth experiment)
Palmata_growth_FL_USA (Data describing the growth of the coral Acropora palmata from 2018 to 2019 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys during three time intervals)
Other --- --- ---

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