Dataset: coral growth 2019

Name: Height, width, and mass of the coral Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama, 2018-2019
Published: 2019-10-24
Keywords: Panama, pocillopora, coral growth, biota, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.776346.2

Spatial Extent: N:8.6312 E:-79.0283 S:7.4033 W:-81.759

Temporal Extent: 2016 - 2018

Project:

Collaborative Research: Climate Change, Mesoscale Oceanography, and the Dynamics of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs (Coral Climate ETP)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Richard B. Aronson (Florida Institute of Technology, FIT)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Dr Lauren T. Toth (United States Geological Survey, USGS)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2019-10-24

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Height, width, and mass of the coral Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama, 2018-2019

Abstract:

Height, surface area, and mass of Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama at five time periods between March 2018 and March 2019.

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Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2019-10-24	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.776346.2	2019-10-24

Description

Height, surface area, and mass of Pocillopora damicornis in Pacific Panama at five time periods between March 2018 and March 2019.

Methods & Sampling

Before deployment, Pocillopora coral fragments’ maximum height and width were measured using calipers. Buoyant weight was measured by attaching the coral fragment to a line and scale. Each coral was lowered into the water and mass was measured to find buoyant weight. The corals were placed on cement blocks and left in-situ for 12 months in the Gulfs of Panama and Chiriqui. After the time period, the colonies were collected and the same procedures were followed to measure final mass, height, and width of the colonies. Changes in height and mass were calculated in Microsoft excel.

See related data for 2016-2018 coral growth: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/747484

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:

added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions
replaced version 1 (2019-09-09) with version 2 (2019-10-24): new FinalMass and ChangeMass values

Data Files

File
coral_growth_2019.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 5.94 KB) MD5:5b508c6295c26d701df49861896d97c1 Primary data file for dataset ID 776346

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1535007

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

scale

Supplied Name: weight

Supplied Description:

A rigged scale that allows one to measure the weight of an object in the water; buoyant weight was measured.

Instrument Type

Generic Name: scale

Acronym: balance

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB13/

Generic Description:

An instrument used to measure weight or mass.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
UIN	unique identifying number (site specific)	unitless	sample
Gulf	locations in Pacific Panama: Chiriqui and Panama	unitless	region
Site	experimental site: Pedro is Pedro Gonzalez and Canales is Canales de Tierra	unitless	site
Latitude	latitude in decimal degrees north	decimal degrees	lat
Longitude	longitude in decimal degrees east	decimal degrees	lon
GrowthPeriod	duration of deployment: Syy-Syy = spring of 2018 to 2019	unitless	duration
CoralID	identification of each coral sample	unitless	sample
InitialHeight_Perp	the height of the coral frag when deployed in March 2018	millimeters (mm)	height
FinalHeight_Long	the height of the coral colony after it was retrieved in March 2019	millimeters (mm)	height
ChangeHeight_Long	the difference in heights of the colony over the course of a year	millimeters (mm)	height
Initial_Max_Width	the largest width of the colony in 2018	millimeters (mm)	width
Final_Max_Width	the largest width of the colony in 2019	millimeters (mm)	width
Initial_Trunk_Diam	the width of the trunk of the coral frag in March 2018	millimeters (mm)	diameter
Final_Trunk_Diam	the width of the trunk of the coral colony in March 2019	millimeters (mm)	diameter
InitialMass	the buoyant weight of the coral frag in March 2018	grams (g)	mass
FinalMass	the buoyant weight of the coral frag in March 2019	grams (g)	mass
ChangeMass	the difference between the final and initial weights of the colonies	grams (g)	mass
Notes	comments	unitless	comment

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