1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2026-308-FA

Identifier 2026-308-FA
Purpose Site visit will be conducted by NPS personnel. Purpose is to visit coral calcification monitoring stations to collect underwater temperature loggers and "hot-swap" new ones.
Location Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI
Summary Six temperature loggers (n = 2 per site) will be hot-swapped at USGS legacy sites (NWR, NEW, SFR).
Info derived Underwater temperature data
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2024-324-FA.
Projects
Platform
Other
26-ft NPS Parker
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Christiansted, VI 2026-03-18
End Christiansted, VI 2026-03-25
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -64.62915336
East -64.60828027
North 17.79211382
South 17.78190285

Personnel

Organization
National Park Service(NPS)
multiple locations
Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Ilsa B Kuffner
Crew members
Ilsa B Kuffner
Scientist, Staff
Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Kristen Ewen, National Park Service, Buck Island Reef National Monument

Data types and categories

Data category: Time Series, Location-Elevation, Biological Field Study
Data type: Biology Monitoring, Navigation, Experiments (biological)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity