Virgin Islands National Park: Coral Reef: Physical Measurements

• Main Authors: California State University Northridge, Peter Edmunds
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2019
• Subjects: USVI; VINP; LTREB; CSUN; US Virgin Islands National Park; St. John Island; Caribbean; California State University Northridge; NSF; Scleractinia; Scleractinian Coral; Community; Corals; Populations; Temperature; Coral Reefs; Marine environments; Polyps (organisms); Sea water; Water temperature; Temperature effects; Ocean temperature; Ocean Acidification; Reef Resistance and Resilience; Population and Community Dynamics; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/296/1

These data have been utilized for several publications analyzing different aspects of seawater temperature, including Edmunds: Royal Society 2006, Green et al: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 2010, Green and Edmunds: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 2011, and Edmunds: Marine Ecology Project Series 2013. Temperatures were averaged by day and month and used to calculate annual mean and range using monthly mean temperatures. Daily temperatures were used to categorize days as hot (> 29.3°C) or cold (≤ 26.0°C), with hot days exceeding the coral bleaching threshold for St. John (http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite), and ‘cold days’ less than or equal to the lower 12th percentile of daily seawater temperatures in Great Lameshur Bay between 1989-2005 (Edmunds 2006).This dataset cotains data annually updated data ongoing since July 1999.