Identifier | 2021-324-FA | ||||||||
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Purpose | Primary purpose is a site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates - extending the coral-calcification assessment network to another NPS unit in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Buck Island Reef National Monument (BUIS). | ||||||||
Location | Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI | ||||||||
Summary | Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations in St Croix, USVI were completed. Corals were successfully measured and temperature loggers and algae disks retrieved by NPS personnel. | ||||||||
Info derived | ESA-listed coral growth rates; underwater temperature; algal accretion rates. | ||||||||
Comments | Fieldwork will take about 5 days to complete. Dates listed represent the window of time within which the weather dependent work will be completed. USGS staff are not traveling at this time due to Covid-19 restrictions: NPS staff will be completing this work. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-309-FA | ||||||||
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Vehicles | None |
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Marine operations | Yes | ||||||||
Scuba operations | Yes |
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600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
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Principal investigators | Ilsa B KuffnerLauren T Toth | ||
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Data category: | Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling |
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Data type: | Experiments (biological), Temperature, Photo, Video, Navigation, Biology |
Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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Tiles | Experiments (biological) | 2 | |
Garmin GPS | Navigation | (no data expected) | |
HOBO Water Temperature Pro V2 Data Logger | Temperature | (no data reported) | |
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) | |
Digital Camera | Photo, Video | (no data reported) | |
Digital Camera | Photo, Video | 1 |
Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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Palmata_growth_VI_USA | Tiles | Data describing the growth of the coral Acropora palmata from 2019 to 2021 at three sites in Buck Island Reef National Monument | Ilsa B Kuffner |
Strigosa_growth_VI_USA | Tiles | Data describing the growth of the coral Pseudodiploria strigosa from 2019 to 2021 at three sites in Buck Island Reef National Monument | Ilsa B Kuffner |
VI_coral_photo_record | Digital Camera | Photographic time-series images (JPEG) of coral condition during the growth experiment | Ilsa B Kuffner |