Field Activity 12CBC03

Identifier 12CBC03
Purpose Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates. Coral drilling to obtain samples for Sr/Ca temperature proxy work.
Location Dry Tortugas National Park
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. Coral coring of at least 3 coral heads.
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 6 months. Coral growth rates from coral cores extending back approximately 100 years. Sr/Ca-derived sea surface temperature estimates using coral cores extending back approximately 100 years.
Platform
Fort Jefferson
Halimeda
Vehicles
Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)
Suburban - White 6
Itinerary
Start Key West, FL 2012-05-07
End Key West, FL 2012-05-18
Bounds
West -82.9535
East -82.72110042
North 24.66666578
South 24.57798986
Topic 10

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Richard Z PooreIlsa B Kuffner
Crew members
Hickey, T
Scientist, Staff
Christopher D Reich
Scientist, Staff
Kyle W Kelso
Scientist, Staff
Ilsa B Kuffner
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Emily S Klipp
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Meteorology, Temperature, Photo, Navigation, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS combined with temp data Navigation (no data expected)
Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) combined with temp data Temperature, Tide, Wave, Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data expected)
Balance Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) (no data reported)
Core Barrels Geology 2
Digital Camera Photo, Video 3
HOBO Pendant Temperature/Light Data Logger 64K Light, Temperature 3
Hydraulic Coring Drill Geology (no data reported)
Tiles Experiments (biological) 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_LER_1980_2012.zip Core Barrels Sr/Ca and linear extension rates for five O. faveolata colonies Jennifer A. Flannery
DRTO_coral_cores_field _photographs.zip Digital Camera Underwater photographs of corals in-situ Ilsa B Kuffner
DRTO_coral_cores_slab_photographs.zip Digital Camera Photographs of core slabs in core boxes Ilsa B Kuffner
DRTO_coral_cores_xrays.zip Digital Camera X-ray images of core slabs Ilsa B Kuffner
12CBC03-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

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_1837_2012 Core Barrels Sub annual and mean annual Sr/Ca values, annual linear extension rates, and composite SST data for coral cores CG2 (Siderastrea siderea) and B3 (Orbicella faveolata) from the Dry Tortugas National Park Jennifer A. Flannery
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