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Field Activity Details for field activity 2026-308-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Pending

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

Funding Program(s): Natural Resources Preservation Program - NPS (GX.25.MN00.UTH23.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Ilsa Kuffner

Affiliate Investigator(s): Kristen Ewen, National Park Service, Buck Island Reef National Monument

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Data Type(s): Time Series: Biology Monitoring, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Site visit will be conducted by NPS personnel. Purpose is to visit coral calcification monitoring stations to collect underwater temperature loggers and "hot-swap" new ones.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Christiansted, VI

End Port/Location: Christiansted, VI

Start Date: 2026-03-18

End Date: 2026-03-25

Equipment Used:

Information to be Derived: Underwater temperature data

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Six temperature loggers (n = 2 per site) will be hot-swapped at USGS legacy sites (NWR, NEW, SFR).

Staff: Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Ilsa Kuffner

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2024-324-FA.

Location:

Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI

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

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26-ft NPS Parker

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