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508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
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2026-03-31
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Pocillopora damicornis coral settlement counts in presence of different concentrations of crustose coralline algae powder in Maui, Hawaii (June 2024)
2026-03-31
publication
2026-03-31
revision
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)
2026-04-20
publication
https://doi.org/10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.995760.1
T. Aran Mooney
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
principalInvestigator
Amy Apprill
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
principalInvestigator
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
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http://www.bco-dmo.org
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Cite this dataset as: Aoki, N., Goyal, I., Mooney, T. A., Apprill, A. (2026) Pocillopora damicornis coral settlement counts in presence of different concentrations of crustose coralline algae powder in Maui, Hawaii (June 2024). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2026-03-31 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.995760.1 [access date]
PDAM settlement data Dataset Description: Methods and Sampling: <p>Two experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 was a preliminary test and consisted of 5 cups (5 different treatments, 1 cup per treatment, and no replicates). These had 0, 50, 100, 200, and 300 mg of CCA powder, respectively. Larvae in these cups were counted nondestructively after 24 hours and again after 48 hours. Experiment 2 consisted of 24 cups with 3 replicates each of 8 CCA powder amounts: 0, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, and 300 mg. The larvae were counted after 24 hours.</p>
<p>Plates of calcite (approximately 1-3 mm thick) covered in CCA were collected from the MOC aquarium tanks’ walls. These plates had full pink-colored CCA surface area coverage (taxonomy was not identified<strong>)</strong>. Calcite plates were crushed into a paste with a mortar and pestle and allowed to dry in the shaded, open-air area until ca. 30 g of powder formed. Polypropylene specimen cups (140 ml) were used to hold 20 larvae each, and 2-inch diameter three-pointed ceramic stilts (<em>Clay King DP2-Roselli stilts; SC, USA)</em> without CCA were used to provide a settlement surface (Lillis et al., 2018; Aoki et al., 2024). The stilts placed in each cup were preconditioned in the aquarium tanks for over one month, but no natural CCA growth was observed on them during this period.</p>
<p>Each experimental “cup” container was filled with approximately 120 ml of FSW and the experimentally designated amount of powder. Cups were gently shaken to mix the powder, though the powder never fully went into solution and eventually precipitated out. <em>Pocillopora damicornis </em>larvae (n = 20 per cup) and a stilt were added to each cup. Larvae were one to two days old when the experiments started. These larvae were randomly distributed between sample cups and treatments. The containers were placed in custom racks gently floating on the surface, allowing them to maintain a constant position within the flow-through tank maintained at local seawater temperature.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All cups were scored after 24 hours by counting the number of larvae swimming or settled at each location: the lid, stilt, cup, or loose CCA chunk. Each cup was swirled gently to detach any sticky but not fully settled larvae from any surfaces. Then the cup’s lid was removed and visually examined under a UV light with a dissecting microscope to identify and count auto fluorescing larvae (<em>NIGHTSEA; Hatfield, PA</em>). Metamorphosed polyps were identified by having flattened and developed septa, which divided the polyp radially about the mouth.</p>
Funding provided by NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) Award Number: OCE-2318921 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2318921
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T. Aran Mooney
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
508-289-3714
Biology Department MRF Mail Stop 50
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
amooney@whoi.edu
pointOfContact
Amy Apprill
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
508-289-2649
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department 266 Woods Hole Road, MS# 4
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
aapprill@whoi.edu
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Dataset Version: 1
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experiment
duration
mg_cca
larvae_added
lid
stilt
cup
cca_chunks
swimming
settled
dead
total_present
score_date_local
score_time_local
notes
theme
None, User defined
experiment id
duration
weight
count
date_local
time_local
comments
featureType
BCO-DMO Standard Parameters
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A Field-Ready Playback System for Eco-Acoustic and Settlement Studies
https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/project/995451
A Field-Ready Playback System for Eco-Acoustic and Settlement Studies
<p>NSF Award Abstract:</p>
<p>Given human’s expanding use of the ocean, there is increasing need to understand natural and anthropogenic noise impacts to sound-sensitive taxa. Understanding acoustic ecology is vital as given rates of ocean changes and the fact that science is still unraveling how marine animals use sound to communicate, detect predators, seek prey and find suitable habitat. To gain this knowledge there is a need for a cost-effective, extended-duration tool that allows researchers to easily and experimentally replay sound cues, manipulate soundscapes and introduce ‘noise’ in field-based experiments to address new questions in ocean ecology and conservation. This effort will support the build and testing of a scalable, cost-effective, ocean-ready and long-duration sound playback tool. This tool will enable scientists to gather new insight into how sound is used by and impacts diverse marine fauna. The research will focus pilot tests on coral reefs, imperiled hubs of biodiversity that support billions of USD in ecosystem services, and seek to enhance the attraction and settlement of young corals as a method to support and potentially rebuild reefs. The project will incorporate and train undergraduate and graduate students, young technicians, and engineers, including underrepresented minorities, in all aspects of this development and testing. This effort is designed to be self-sustaining so that once it is completed, other scientists and stakeholders will be able to use acoustic enrichment and new questions to support the redevelopment of reefs and conduct previously unobtainable ecosystem studies.</p>
<p>The science will be piloted and optimized through beta-experiments replaying soundscapes to attract coral larvae and induce settlement onto reefs. The team involved will leverage the emerging understanding of reef soundscapes, their own key data, and a beta-system, to enable this acoustically-mediated playback and larval settlement investigation tool. The technical components of the system will be durable and optimized for the playback of reef sounds, enhancing its dynamic range, sound propagation, and variety of sound patterns. The pilot tool will be tested and optimized at an established US Virgin Islands field station with years of measurements on soundscapes and community dynamics. Additional testing and user-feedback integrated will occur a new site in Year 2. From these calibrations, iterations and tests, the project will provide an important new natural-based instrument for the toolboxes of scientists and stakeholders to conduct novel acoustics studies surrounding the fields of marine ecology, changing oceans, physical oceanography, and broader basic ocean research.</p>
<p>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.</p>
Coral RAPS
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project
eng; USA
oceans
2024-06-24
2024-06-26
Hawaii
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BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from Pocillopora damicornis coral settlement counts in presence of different concentrations of crustose coralline algae powder in Maui, Hawaii (June 2024)
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
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http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996927.rdf
Name: experiment
Units: unitless
Description: <p>experiment designator</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996928.rdf
Name: duration
Units: hrs
Description: <p>duration of experiment</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996929.rdf
Name: mg_cca
Units: mg
Description: <p>cca powder added per cup</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996930.rdf
Name: larvae_added
Units: larvae
Description: <p>number of larvae added per cup</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996931.rdf
Name: lid
Units: larvae
Description: <p>number of larvae settled on cup lid</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996932.rdf
Name: stilt
Units: larvae
Description: <p>number of larvae settled on ceramic stilt</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996933.rdf
Name: cup
Units: larvae
Description: <p>number of larvae settled on side/bottom of cup</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996934.rdf
Name: cca_chunks
Units: larvae
Description: <p>number of larvae settled on small cca chunks</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996935.rdf
Name: swimming
Units: larvae
Description: <p>number of larvae found alive/swimming</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996936.rdf
Name: settled
Units: larvae
Description: <p>total number of settlers</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996937.rdf
Name: dead
Units: larvae
Description: <p>number of dead larvae observed</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996938.rdf
Name: total_present
Units: larvae
Description: <p>total number of larvae found in cup</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996939.rdf
Name: score_date_local
Units: day
Description: <p>date of experimental scoring</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996940.rdf
Name: score_time_local
Units: hour
Description: <p>time of experimental scoring</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/996941.rdf
Name: notes
Units: unitless
Description: <p>observations by analyst</p>
GB/NERC/BODC > British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
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<p>Two experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 was a preliminary test and consisted of 5 cups (5 different treatments, 1 cup per treatment, and no replicates). These had 0, 50, 100, 200, and 300 mg of CCA powder, respectively. Larvae in these cups were counted nondestructively after 24 hours and again after 48 hours. Experiment 2 consisted of 24 cups with 3 replicates each of 8 CCA powder amounts: 0, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, and 300 mg. The larvae were counted after 24 hours.</p>
<p>Plates of calcite (approximately 1-3 mm thick) covered in CCA were collected from the MOC aquarium tanks’ walls. These plates had full pink-colored CCA surface area coverage (taxonomy was not identified<strong>)</strong>. Calcite plates were crushed into a paste with a mortar and pestle and allowed to dry in the shaded, open-air area until ca. 30 g of powder formed. Polypropylene specimen cups (140 ml) were used to hold 20 larvae each, and 2-inch diameter three-pointed ceramic stilts (<em>Clay King DP2-Roselli stilts; SC, USA)</em> without CCA were used to provide a settlement surface (Lillis et al., 2018; Aoki et al., 2024). The stilts placed in each cup were preconditioned in the aquarium tanks for over one month, but no natural CCA growth was observed on them during this period.</p>
<p>Each experimental “cup” container was filled with approximately 120 ml of FSW and the experimentally designated amount of powder. Cups were gently shaken to mix the powder, though the powder never fully went into solution and eventually precipitated out. <em>Pocillopora damicornis </em>larvae (n = 20 per cup) and a stilt were added to each cup. Larvae were one to two days old when the experiments started. These larvae were randomly distributed between sample cups and treatments. The containers were placed in custom racks gently floating on the surface, allowing them to maintain a constant position within the flow-through tank maintained at local seawater temperature.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All cups were scored after 24 hours by counting the number of larvae swimming or settled at each location: the lid, stilt, cup, or loose CCA chunk. Each cup was swirled gently to detach any sticky but not fully settled larvae from any surfaces. Then the cup’s lid was removed and visually examined under a UV light with a dissecting microscope to identify and count auto fluorescing larvae (<em>NIGHTSEA; Hatfield, PA</em>). Metamorphosed polyps were identified by having flattened and developed septa, which divided the polyp radially about the mouth.</p>
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<p>Settlement data are presented here in raw form.</p>
Specified by the Principal Investigator(s)
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7.x-1.1
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
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