Dataset: Coral colony photos from 2015 bleaching event
Deployment: Palumbi_AmSamoa_2013-2015

View Data: For data, See Dataset Metadata Page: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/762526

Principal Investigator:

Stephen R. Palumbi (Stanford University)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Luke Thomas (University of Western Australia)

Contact:

Stephen R. Palumbi (Stanford University)

Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

Ecological, evolutionary and physiological responses of corals to a mass bleaching event in American Samoa (Bleaching American Samoa)

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Description

This dataset includes all photographs taken of individual coral colonies during and after the 2015 bleaching event on Ofu, American Samoa. Photographs were taken at four time points spanning the bleaching events: April 2015 (during bleaching), August 2015, December 2015, and April 2016. Species photographed include Acroproa gemmifera, Acropora hyacinthus and Pocillopora damicornis.

Tabular data served through this dataset landing page includes a column of links to each individual image. All images and a list of all image names, collection date, time, and image links can be downloaded from the "Data Files" section of this page.

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Photographs were taken at four time points spanning the bleaching events: April 2015 (during bleaching), August 2015, December 2015, and April 2016. Species photographed include Acroproa gemmifera, Acropora hyacinthus and Pocillopora damicornis.

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

BCO-DMO data manager processing notes:
* Metadata (tagID, lat, lon) data was submitted separately from the image files.
* Indexed all images and attached inventory as a supplemental document.
* Joined the image metadata (tagID, lat, lon) to the imagenames, at behest of data submitter, only the images that had metadata are included in the tabular dataset served from this page. The full image inventory (including ones without tags and locations) is included in the zip download of all images, and the image_inventory.csv file (supplemental document).

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-1547921	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

Camera

Supplied Name: Olympus TG 5 Tough Digital Camera

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Camera

Acronym: camera

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/311/

Generic Description:

All types of photographic equipment including stills, video, film and digital systems.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
imagename	Coral colony image name	unitless	file_name
TagID	Coral colony identifier (tag ID)	unitless	tagid
Month	Month	unitless	month
Year	Year	unitless	year
Species	Scientific name of coral colony	unitless	species
Lat	Latitude	decimal degrees (DD)	lat
Long	Longitude	decimal degrees (DD)	lon
image_link	URL to the coral colony image	unitless	file_link

Database

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Dataset: Coral colony photos from 2015 bleaching event
Deployment: Palumbi_AmSamoa_2013-2015

Dataset acquisition description

Dataset Processing Description

Database

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Dataset: Coral colony photos from 2015 bleaching eventDeployment: Palumbi_AmSamoa_2013-2015

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Dataset: Coral colony photos from 2015 bleaching event
Deployment: Palumbi_AmSamoa_2013-2015