Primary purpose is a site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral calcification rates - extending the coral-calcification assessment network to another NPS unit in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Buck Island Reef National Monument (BUIS). Staff will collect final measurements of corals and slabs of corals (2 x 4-mm wide from each of the 30 Pseudodiploria strigosa colonies)
Location
Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI
Summary
Staff collected final measurements of corals and slabs of corals (2 x 4-mm wide from each of the 30 Pseudodiploria strigosa colonies)
Info derived
ESA-listed coral growth rates
Comments
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-309-FA
