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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-324-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, 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: 2021-06-21

End Date: 2021-07-09

Equipment Used: Tiles, Garmin GPS, HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger, Other, Digital Camera, Digital Camera

Information to be Derived: ESA-listed coral growth rates; underwater temperature; algal accretion rates.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations in St Croix, USVI were completed. Corals were successfully measured and temperature loggers and algae disks retrieved by NPS personnel.

Staff: Ilsa Kuffner

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Fieldwork will take about 5 days to complete. Dates listed represent the window of time within which the weather dependent work will be completed. USGS staff are not traveling at this time due to Covid-19 restrictions: NPS staff will be completing this work.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-309-FA

Location:

Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI

Boundaries
North: 17.79211382 South: 17.78190285 West: -64.62915336 East: -64.60828027

Platform(s):


Other

Publications

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Tiles --- Experiments (biological)
Garmin GPS --- Navigation
No data was collected
HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger --- Temperature
Other --- --- ---
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video

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