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): Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Ilsa Kuffner, Lucy Bartlett
Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Imagery: Photo, Environmental Data: Temperature, Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure algal calcification rates and underwater temperature.
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 2021-10-13
End Date: 2021-10-25
Equipment Used: Other, GPS , Digital Camera, Other, Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus), HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger
Information to be Derived: Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for crustose coralline algal communities on pvc disks. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months. Photographs of out-planted corals.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Completed a site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure algal calcification rates and underwater temperature
Staff: Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Billy Reynolds, Erin Lyons, Ilsa Kuffner
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: This fieldwork is being done at the same time (same travel and same vehicles used) as 2021-341-FA
Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually - White (GSA), Blue Ford Explorer
Platform(s): Halimeda
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-307-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: 25.55040184 | South: 24.42902087 | West: -82.6227 | East: -80.01888602 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Kuffner, I.B., 2022, Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs of the Florida Keys, U.S.A. (ver. 7.0, March 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1TZK.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| GPS | --- | Navigation | No data was collected |
| Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) | --- | Temperature Tide Wave Mooring (physical oceanography) | No data was collected |
| HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | --- | Temperature | FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Nov2021.zip (Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2021 at six off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys.) |
