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

Field Activity 2022-346-FA

Identifier 2022-346-FA -- CANCELED
Purpose Primary purpose is a site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations to place corals for coral calcification rate measurements - extending the coral-calcification assessment network to another NPS unit in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Buck Island Reef National Monument (BUIS). Staff will place new Acropora palmata colonies at existing stations to measure calcification rate.
Location Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI
Info derived ESA-listed coral growth rates
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-309-FA Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-331-FA. Project code: GX.23.MN00.UXB04.00
Projects
Platform
Other
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Christiansted, VI 2022-03-06
End Christiansted, VI 2022-03-12
Days in the field 7
Bounds
West -64.62915336
East -64.60828027
North 17.79211382
South 17.78190285
Marine operations Yes
Scuba operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Ilsa B Kuffner
Crew members
Billy J Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Ilsa B Kuffner
Scientist, Staff
Anastasios Stathakopoulos
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Lucy A Bartlett
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Experiments (biological), Photo, Video, Navigation, Biology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Digital Camera Photo, Video (no data reported)
Garmin GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Geology, Biology, Chemistry (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity