| Identifier | 2015-337-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) Dry Tortugas National Park (Key West, FL) | ||||||||
| Summary | All sites were visiting and data obtained successfully. Coral bleaching killed all experimental corals at Looe Key - Mote nursery, so dead corals were weighed and brought back to SPCMSC. Experimental corals bleached at Crocker Reef but presently not bleached Sombrero Reef (though some partial mortality could have been from earlier bleaching), and appeared normally pigmented at Dry Tortugas and Biscayne N.P. | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| Comments | Other staff was Jennifer Morrison 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
(727) 502-8000
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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 | PVC "cow tags" used to collect crustose coralline algae samples. | Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) | 8 |
| Digital Camera | Cannon Rebel on tripod for still photos of experimental colonies while being weighed, "garden" photos taken with Sony Cybershot in underwater housing. | Photo, Video | 2 |
| GPS | GPS on R/v Halimeda | Navigation | (no data reported) |
| Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) | This unit was the one on loan from Woods Hole. It malfunctioned early in deployment, so few useful data were collected. | Temperature, Tide, Wave, Mooring (physical oceanography) | 2 |
| Balance | Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) | 1 | |
| Other | Unknown, Meteorology, CTD, Temperature, pH, CO2, Radon, Conductivity, Current, Dissolved Oxygen, Turbidity, Fluorescence, Wave, ORP, Tide, Methane, Depth, Light, Nitrate, Gas Hydrates, Density, Sediment Properties, Osmometic Pressure, Chlorophyll, Nutrients, Pressure | (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 |
| FL_coral_underwater_temps_to_Dec2016.csv | Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) | 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 | Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) | 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 |
