St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
| Date | Location | Fieldwork |
|---|---|---|
| November 1-10, 2011 | Dry Tortugas National Park, Biscayne National Park, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary | Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations |
| Sep 7-13, 2011 | U.S. Virgin Islands | Locate appropriate coral colonies for 2012 sampling trip and deploy underwater temperature data loggers at each location where corals are marked for sampling |
| July 7-24, 2011 | U.S. Virgin Islands | Collect baseline information for coral/mangrove interaction studies |
| July 10-23, 2011 | Dry Tortugas National Park | Collect ATRIS imagery to characterize the seafloor around Loggerhead Key |
| May 16-26, 2011 | Dry Tortugas National Park | Servicing 7 acoustic receivers, tag nesting female sea turtles with satellite tags, conduct rodeo captures to tag sub-adult and adult sea turtles, tag juvenile sea turtles, conduct benthic habitat characterization by diving in key turtle hotspots of activity |
| April 25-May 9, 2011 | Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary | Site visit to coral calcification monitoring stations |
| Jan 31-Feb 3, 2011 | Dry Tortugas National Park | Collect acoustic data from receivers anchored in Dry Tortugas National Park to determine animal location information |
| Nov 8-16, 2010 | Dry Tortugas National Park | Mass of calcium carbonate gained per unit time for coral Siderastrea siderea and crustose coralline algal communities on nylon tiles. Hourly temperature data for past 6 months |
| Nov 1-10, 2010 | U.S. Virgin Islands | Characterize corala nd associated ecosystems located within the vicinity of or underneath mangroves |
| Sep 16-26, 2010 | Dry Tortugas National Park | Tag two juvenile sea turtles with accelerometers and collect the unhatched eggs from Loggerhead nests for oil-related NRDA samples |
| August 1-14, 2010 | Florida Keys | Coral sampling for microarray experiments and field testing a new technique to determine if coral fluorescence can be used to remotely assess coral health |
| July 20-29, 2010 | Dry Tortugas National Park | visit each of our calcification monitoring stations, we weigh each coral, stain it with alizarin red for growth studies, and harvest and replace algae recruitment tiles |
| May 3-14, 2010 | Fowey Rocks, Molasses Reef, and Sombrero Reef | visit each of our calcification monitoring stations, we weigh each coral, stain it with alizarin red for growth studies, and harvest and replace algae recruitment tiles |
| April 2010 (exact dates are weather dependent) | FL Keys Reef Track | a 5-day ATRIS trip to map patch reef damage from the cold spell in January |
| March 16-21, 2010 | Dry Tortugas National Park | deploy the SHARQ over one of the cored coral heads to measure calcification and metabolism baseline rates for three days, then to run pCO2 injection experiment on the same coral head whereby pCO2 was elevated to ~560 ppm (2050 levels) for three days |
| August 2-15, 2009 | Dry Tortugas National Park | Coral sampling for microarray experiments and field testing a new technique to determine if coral fluorescence can be used to remotely assess coral health |
| July 20-29, 2009 | Dry Tortugas National Park | complete work started in March: deploy the SHARQ over one of the cored coral heads to measure calcification and metabolism baseline rates for three days, then to run a pCO2 injection experiment on the same coral head whereby pCO2 was elevated to ~560 ppm (2050 levels) for three days |
| July 14-24, 2009 | Virgin Islands National Park | Coral sampling for microarray experiments |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/crest/activities/fieldwork/index.html
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