1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 10CBC03

Identifier 10CBC03
Purpose Site visit to coral calcification monitoring station
Location Dry Tortugas National Park, FL
Summary Measured buoyant mass of n = 10 colonies of Siderastrea siderea, and dry mass of crustose coralline algae gained on n = 10 tiles. Maintenance of station.
Info derived Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for coral Siderastrea siderea and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 9 months.
Platform
Fort Jefferson
Halimeda
Itinerary
Start Key West, FL 2010-07-19
End Key West, FL 2010-07-29
Bounds
West -83.1054
East -82.61233152
North 24.67679675
South 24.35177763
Topic 10

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Ilsa B Kuffner
Crew members
Ilsa B Kuffner
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), Meteorology, Temperature, Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Light, Temperature 3
Camera, Digital, Hand Held Photo (no data reported)
Tiles Experiments (biological) 2
Balance Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
10CBC03-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
10CBC03-BF-pd-1 Balance Mass of calcium carbonate gained Ilsa B Kuffner

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Growth_SST_Sr_Mg_39_corals Tiles Growth and geochemical data for 39 Siderastrea siderea corals Ilsa B Kuffner
SrCa_MgCa_all_drill_paths Tiles Strontium and magnesium data for all drill paths for 39 Siderastrea siderea corals Ilsa B Kuffner

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity