Field Activity 09CBC01

Identifier 09CBC01
Purpose The goal of this new effort is to document current and future calcification rates as seawater conditions continue to change due to sea surface warming and ocean acidification.
Location Key Largo, FL and Molasses Reef
Summary Initial mass of n = 10 colonies of Siderastrea siderea
Info derived Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for coral Siderastrea siderea and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles.
Platform
Halimeda
Itinerary
Start Key Largo, FL 2009-04-10
End Key Largo, FL 2009-04-14
Bounds
West -80.4747
East -80.17364558
North 25.23623365
South 25.0035636
Topic 10
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Ilsa B Kuffner
Crew members
Hickey, T
Scientist, Staff
Sanford, Jordan
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Ilsa B Kuffner
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Imagery
Data type: Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Temperature, Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Balance Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) 1
HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Light, Temperature 3
Camera, Digital, Hand Held Photo (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
09CBC01-BF-pd-1 Balance Mass of calcium carbonate gained Ilsa B Kuffner
09CBC01-EN-pd-1 HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs Ilsa B Kuffner
FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Dec2016.csv HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2016 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Ilsa B Kuffner
FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Nov2015.csv HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2015 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Ilsa B Kuffner

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity