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Coral Ecosystem Connectivity from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys: Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Cast Data from 2013-08-20 to 2014-08-24 (NCEI Accession 0190533)

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Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Casts were conducted during project cruises on August 20-24, 2013, and August 18-24, 2014. Casts were conducted at project mooring sites located across the southwest Florida shelf: in the Northern Dry Tortugas, Southern Dry Tortugas, and at Pulley Ridge. Each mooring had an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) that recorded hourly measurements of near-surface and near-bottom water velocity, and bottom temperature. Each cast contains water column profile data (conductivity, temperature, depth, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll a fluorescence). Raw data were processed with a standard set of routines provided by the instrument manufacturer, the details of which may be accessed in the header of each data file.
  • Cite as: Smith, Ryan H.; Kourafalou, Villy; Valle-Levinson, Arnoldo (2019). Coral Ecosystem Connectivity from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys: Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Cast Data from 2013-08-20 to 2014-08-24 (NCEI Accession 0190533). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/ha6m-s136. Accessed [date].
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Time Period 2013-08-20 to 2014-08-24
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: -83.68
East: -83.1
South: 24.47
North: 24.78
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Publication Dates
  • publication: 2019-07-23
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Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency As needed
Supplemental Information
Submission Package ID: P8TB2A
Purpose These CTD casts were conducted to support project physical modeling efforts as a single data point to compare temperature measurements at the mooring site, which were designed to evaluate the coral ecosystem connectivity between Pulley Ridge and the downstream reefs of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). The project “Coral Ecosystem Connectivity: From Pulley Ridge to Florida Keys” is focused on investigating the role that the relatively healthy deep, light-dependent mesophotic coral ecosystems of Pulley Ridge may play in replenishing key fish species, such as grouper, and other organisms in the downstream reefs of the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas. This interdisciplinary study is determining connectivity of specific reef species between Pulley Ridge and the Florida Keys, and describing the structure and determining the value of Pulley Ridge’s mesophotic coral ecosystems. Because of the well-documented decline of Florida’s reefs, it is important to identify, protect, and manage sources of larvae that can help sustain Florida’s reef ecosystems and the tourism economy that depends on it. The data in this accession were funded by the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) under award NA11NOS4780045 to the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) at the University of Miami, and by the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research under awards NA09OAR4320073 and NA14OAR4320260 to the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research and Technology (CIOERT) at Florida Atlantic University – Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Funding was also provided by NCCOS to NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL, for processing and analysis.
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  • Cite as: Smith, Ryan H.; Kourafalou, Villy; Valle-Levinson, Arnoldo (2019). Coral Ecosystem Connectivity from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys: Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Cast Data from 2013-08-20 to 2014-08-24 (NCEI Accession 0190533). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/ha6m-s136. Accessed [date].
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  • Related Funding Agency: NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
  • Related Funding Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NOS; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research
  • Related Funding Agency: NOAA Ocean Exploration
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  • Cite as: Smith, Ryan H.; Kourafalou, Villy; Valle-Levinson, Arnoldo (2019). Coral Ecosystem Connectivity from Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys: Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Cast Data from 2013-08-20 to 2014-08-24 (NCEI Accession 0190533). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/ha6m-s136. Accessed [date].
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  • 2019-07-23T19:21:47Z - NCEI Accession 0190533 v1.1 was published.
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  • Parameter or Variable: CONDUCTIVITY (measured); Units: S/m; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: SBE4.
  • Parameter or Variable: TEMPERATURE [WATER TEMPERATURE] (measured); Units: deg C; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: SBE3plus.
  • Parameter or Variable: WATER DENSITY (measured); Units: db; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: SBE9plus.
  • Parameter or Variable: DISSOLVED OXYGEN (measured); Units: ml/l; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: SBE43.
  • Parameter or Variable: FLUORESCENCE (measured); Units: unitless; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: Seapoint chl_a fluorometer.
  • Parameter or Variable: PAR [PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATION (PAR)] (measured); Units: unitless; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: LI-COR Biospherical PAR Sensor.
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  • R/V F.G. Walton Smith
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