Primary purpose is a site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to collect coral calcification rate measurements. Staff will measure and weigh corals and collect and replace temperature loggers and algae settlement disks.
Location
Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI
Summary
Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to assess coral health status, collect coral calcification and temperature sensor data, and recover algae tile samples. New corals were added to replace those that died from 2023 bleaching. Photographic imagery was also collected. Completed.
Info derived
ESA-listed coral growth rates
Comments
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-331-FA.
