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, Lauren Toth
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Lucy Bartlett
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Primary purpose is a site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates - extending the coral-calcification assessment network to another NPS unit in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Buck Island Reef National Monument (BUIS).
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Christiansted, VI
End Port/Location: Christiansted, VI
Start Date: 2020-06-15
End Date: 2020-06-19
Equipment Used: Balance, Pneumatic Drill, Settling plates, HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger, Digital Camera, Garmin GPS
Information to be Derived: ESA-listed coral growth rates; underwater temperature; algal accretion rates.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Conducted site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations in U.S. Virgin Islands: Buck Island Reef National Monument (BUIS) to measure coral and algal calcification rates. Gathered coral growth rates, underwater temperature and collected algae disks to measure accretion rates.
Staff: Ilsa Kuffner, Billy Reynolds, Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-368-FA
**Due to Covid-19 lockdown, researchers did not go on this trip during the originally scheduled dates of April 19-May 15, 2020**
Location:
Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI
Boundaries | |||
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North: 17.79211382 | South: 17.78190285 | West: -64.62915336 | East: -64.60828027 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Kuffner, I.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Ewen, K.A., Holloway, N.H., Lyons, E.O., Bartlett, L.A., Pollock, C.G., Hillis-Starr, Z.,, 2023, Experimental Coral-Growth Data and Time-Series Imagery for Acropora palmata and Pseudodiploria strigosa in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands: doi: 10.5066/P94BOI9T.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Balance | --- | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) | No data was collected |
Pneumatic Drill | --- | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) | No data was collected |
Settling plates | --- | Experiments (biological) Surveys (biological) | |
HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | --- | Temperature | |
Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | |
Garmin GPS | --- | Navigation | No data was collected |