Field Activity 2015-319-FA

Identifier 2015-319-FA
Purpose 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.
Projects
Platform
Halimeda
Itinerary
Start St. Petersburg, FL 2015-05-17
End St. Petersburg, FL 2015-05-30
Bounds
West -82.6227
East -80.01888602
North 25.55040184
South 24.42902087
Marine operations Yes

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
Jennifer M Morrison
Scientist, Staff
Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Ilsa B Kuffner
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger Temperature 2
Balance Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) 1
Digital Camera Photo, Video 4
GPS Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Dec2016.csv HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger 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 Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger Underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2015 at five off-shore coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Ilsa B Kuffner
Orbicella_growth_FL_USA Balance Data describing the growth of corals in the Orbicella annularis species complex from 2013 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
Pastreoides_growth_FL_USA Digital Camera 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 Ilsa B Kuffner
Pastreoides_end_measurements_FL_USA Digital Camera 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 Ilsa B Kuffner
FL_Pastreoides_photo_record Digital Camera Photographic time-series images of coral condition during the growth experiment Ilsa B Kuffner
FL_erosion-photo-record Digital Camera Photographic images of the seafloor collected with underwater cameras at twenty-eight reef-erosion markers located at Hen and Chickens Reef Sanctuary Preservation Area Ilsa B Kuffner

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity