This Month's Field Activities - December 2019

Field Activity 2018-302-DD
Dates: April 13 to December 31
Location: Sand Key, FL
Chief Scientist: Jennifer Brown
Objectives:

Field Activity 2019-362-FA
Dates: December 01 to December 08
Location: Looe Key, Florida Keys, United States, Atlantic Ocean
Chief Scientist: Kimberly Yates, Lauren Toth, Legna Torres-Garcia
Objectives: Collect sediment push cores.

Field Activity 2019-371-FA
Dates: December 04 to December 06
Location: Gulf of Mexico
Chief Scientist: Kimberly Yates
Objectives: Monitoring and assessment of an autonomous carbonate system deployed 60 miles offshore of Tampa Bay, FL. The Ocean Carbon System (OCS) site will be visited routinely, approximately monthly, for equipment maintenance/service or more frequently should instrumentation troubleshooting be required.

Field Activity 2019-358-FA
Dates: December 17 to Jaunary 12
Location: Biscayne Bay and Upper Florida Keys (October 4-8, 2019) Lower Florida Keys - Marathon to Marquesas (January 2020)
Chief Scientist: Kimberly Yates, Christina Kellogg
Objectives: To survey prioritized mangrove habitats for the presence of corals growing on or under prop roots (searching for coral refugia).