Field Activity 2018-326-FA

Identifier 2018-326-FA
Purpose Conduct reef surveys and sample sub-fossil corals to determine the timing of Historic reef mortality on the coral reefs on the NE side of Andros Island, Bahamas
Location Andros, Bahamas
Summary We collected samples from subfossil corals and peat deposits for radiocarbon dating. Some imagery was also collected by researchers at FAU. All data is owned by FAU, who funded the research cruise.
Info derived Reef condition (health) and coral samples for radiometric dating
Comments All data collected on this trip will belong to Florida Atlantic University as the trip is being funded by a FAU project
Projects
Vehicles
Chevy HHR - Blue
Itinerary
Start Miami FL 2018-05-09
End Miami FL (via Andros Island) 2018-05-17
Bounds
West -78.0396844
East -77.53427843
North 25.2186537
South 24.58720395
Scuba operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Lauren T Toth
Crew members
Lauren T Toth
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Lauren T Toth
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Anton Olenik (Florida Atlantic University)

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling
Data type: Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Other Data handled by FIT Unknown, Geology, Biology, Chemistry (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity