Field Activity Details for field activity 2023-303-FA

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Guidance of Reef Restoration Action for Shoreline Protection - GRRASP (GX.26.MN00.UXB01.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Ilsa Kuffner

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Lucy Bartlett

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Primary purpose is a site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to place corals for coral calcification rate measurements - extending the coral-calcification assessment network to another NPS unit in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Buck Island Reef National Monument (BUIS). Staff will place new Acropora palmata colonies at existing stations to measure calcification rate.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Christiansted, VI

End Port/Location: Christiansted, VI

Start Date: 2023-03-06

End Date: 2023-03-12

Equipment Used: Balance, HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger, Digital Camera

Information to be Derived: ESA-listed coral growth rates

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: A site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to place corals for coral calcification rate measurements - extending the coral-calcification assessment network to another NPS unit in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Buck Island Reef National Monument (BUIS). Staff placed new Acropora palmata colonies at existing stations to measure calcification rate.

Staff: Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Ilsa Kuffner, Billy Reynolds

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-309-FA
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-331-FA.
Project code: GX.23.MN00.UXB04.00

Location:

Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI

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