Field Activity Details for field activity S203MU

AKA: none

Other ID: S-2-03-MU

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Mendenhall Research (MU174)

Principal Investigator(s): Greg Piniak

Affiliate Investigator(s): Eric Brown (U of Hawaii, )

Information Specialist(s): Greg Piniak

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Light, Environmental Data: Temperature, Sampling: Geology, Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen

Scientific Purpose/Goals: measure coral growth rates under sediment stress

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Start Port/Location: Maalaea, Maui

End Port/Location: Maalaea, Maui

Start Date: 2003-10-14

End Date: 2003-10-27

Equipment Used: lightmeter, temperaturesensor, sedimenttrap, oxygenprofiler

Information to be Derived: coral growth rates and characterization of physical environment; coral photosynthetic rates Oct 14: arrive Maui Oct 15-16: Help Curt Storlazzi et al recover instrument packages Oct 17: lab work at Maui Ocean Center Oct 18: recover transplants and sediment traps from Maalaea Harbor, do buoyant weights Oct 19: return weight corals to field, recover corals and sediment traps from Sugar Beach and Olowalu, weigh corals Oct 20: return corals to field Oct 21: collect new corals from Triangle, lab work at MOC Oct 22-23: field trials for oxygen photosynthesis chambers Oct 24: collect new corals for transplants, weigh corals Oct 25: personal day Oct 26: deploy new transplants at East Mole and olowalu

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Notes: Transplant site location depth (m) 20.80977 -156.61123 2 Olowalu 20.78703 -156.47083 2 Sugar Beach 20.79100 -156.51333 2 Malaea dock 20.79112 -156.51147 2 Malaea Triangle 20.79055 -156.51012 2 Malaea East mole 1 20.79147 -156.50998 2.5 Malaea East mole 2

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