Field Activity 11CBC02

Identifier 11CBC02
Alternate names CREST Biogenic Calcification
Purpose To locate appropriate coral colonies for 2012 sampling trip and deploy underwater temperature data loggers at each location where corals are marked for sampling.
Location U.S. Virgin Islands
Info derived GPS coordinates for coral colonies appropriate for paleoclimate research.
Itinerary
Start St. Thomas, USVI 2011-09-07
End St. John, USVI 2011-09-13
Bounds
West -63.7852
East -62.19215646
North 18.53712567
South 17.08631523
Topic 10

Personnel

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

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation
Data type: Meteorology, Temperature, Photo, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
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
11CBC02-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