| Identifier | 2015-313-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates | ||||||||
| Location | Biscayne National Park, Fowey Rocks Light (Homestead, FL) FKNMS, Crocker Reef (Islamorada, FL) FKNMS, Crocker Reef (Key Largo, FL) FKNMS, Sombrero Reef (Marathon, FL) FKNMS, Looe Key coral nursery (Summerland Key, FL) | ||||||||
| Summary | Measured buoyant mass of n = 30 colonies of Orbicella faveolata and n = 10 Acropora cervicornis, and dry mass of crustose coralline algae gained on n = 30 tiles. 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 Fowey, Crocker, and Sombrero Reefs covering last six months. Took underwater photographs. Measured buoyant mass and deployed n = 30 colonies of Porites astreoides at Fowey, Crocker, and Sombrero Reef. Measured buoyant mass and deployed n = 30 Acropora cervicornis colonies at Crocker Reef and Mote Looe Key coral nursery. | ||||||||
| 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 2014-332-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. | ||||||||
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600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
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| Principal investigators | Ilsa B Kuffner | ||||||||
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| Data category: | Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation |
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| Data type: | Experiments (biological), Temperature, Photo, Navigation |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Settling plates | Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) | 8 | |
| HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | Temperature | 3 | |
| Balance | Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) | 1 | |
| Digital Camera | Photo, Video | 2 | |
| GPS | Navigation | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Staghorn_coral_skeletal_data.zip | Settling plates | Growth and skeletal data for Acropora cervicornis corals | Ilsa B Kuffner |
| 2015-313-FA-EN-pd-1 | HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | Underwater temperature on off-shore coral reefs | Ilsa B Kuffner |
| 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 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Pastreoides_growth_FL_USA | Settling plates | 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 | Settling plates | 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 |
| Porites_astreoides_Microsatellite_Data | Settling plates | Data describing the allele sizes of 11 microsatellite markers for 39 Porites astreoides individuals collected from the Florida Keys | Lauren T Toth |
| Porites_astreoides_DNA_concentration | Settling plates | Data describing the DNA concentration of the samplings following extraction | Lauren T Toth |
| Benthic_cover_HCreef | Settling plates | Data describing the biotic and abiotic entities covering the seafloor at Hen and Chickens Reef Sanctuary Preservation Area | Ilsa B Kuffner |
| Parrotfish_HCreef | Settling plates | Data describing the species, life phase, size class, and abundance of parrotfish found at Hen and Chickens Reef Sanctuary Preservation Area | Ilsa B Kuffner |
| Eroding_Sponges_HCreef | Settling plates | Data describing the eroding-sponge species, area of reef covered, and percentage covered by the species found at Hen and Chickens Reef Sanctuary Preservation Area | 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 |
