Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates
Location
Dry Tortugas National Park
Summary
Measured buoyant mass of n = 10 colonies of Orbicella faveolata and n = 10 Acropora cervicornis, and dry mass of crustose coralline algae gained on n = 10 tiles from Pulaski Shoal, Dry Tortugas National Park. Maintenance of stations completed. Obtained samples from O. faveolata colonies using tile saw, transplanted remaining live halves of colonies back to the reef. Downloaded underwater temperature data from Pulaski Shoal covering last six months. Took underwater photographs. Measured buoyant mass and deployed n = 10 new colonies of Porites astreoides and n = 10 Acropora cervicornis colonies at Pulaski Shoal.
Info derived
Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for corals Montastraea faveolata and Acropora cervicornis and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months.
Deploying new coral specimens of Acropora cervicornis and Porites astreoides.
Comments
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-313-FA
Kuffner, I.B., Toth, L.T., Hudson, J.H., Goodwin, W.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Bartlett, L.A., and Whitcher, E.M., 2019, Experimental data on construction and erosion of Orbicella coral reefs in the Florida Keys, U.S.A.: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P92NVINW.
Data describing the growth and condition of the coral Porites astreoides from 2015 to 2017 at four offshore coral reefs in the Florida Keys during four time-intervals
Data describing the physiological condition of Porites astreoides corals at the end of the experiment in 2017 grown at four offshore coral reefs in the Florida Keys
Photographic images of the seafloor collected with underwater cameras at twenty-eight reef-erosion markers located at Hen and Chickens Reef Sanctuary Preservation Area
