Dataset: Comeau 2014 MEPS: calcification

Name: Calcification data from outdoor flume experiments with coral Acropora hyacinthus at the UCB Gump Research Station Moorea, French Polynesia in September and October of 2012
Published: 2020-11-17
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.754703.1

Spatial Extent: N:-17.490483 E:-149.826367 S:-17.490483 W:-149.826367

Temporal Extent: 2012-09-01 - 2012-10-10

Project:

Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: Scale Dependence and Adaptive Capacity (OA coral adaptation)

Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site (MCR LTER)

RUI: Ocean Acidification- Category 1- The effects of ocean acidification on the organismic biology and community ecology of corals, calcified algae, and coral reefs (OA_Corals)

Program:

Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability NSF-Wide Investment (SEES): Ocean Acidification (formerly CRI-OA) (SEES-OA)

Long Term Ecological Research network (LTER)

Principal Investigator:

Robert Carpenter (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Steeve Comeau (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

Contact:

Steeve Comeau (Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory, LOV)

Technician:

Griffin Srednick (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

Version Date:

2020-11-17

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Calcification data from outdoor flume experiments with coral Acropora hyacinthus at the UCB Gump Research Station Moorea, French Polynesia in September and October of 2012

Abstract:

Coral calcification data from outdoor flumes at the UCB Gump Research Station Moorea, French Polynesia in September and October of 2012. These data were collected as part of a study of investigating how diel pCO2 oscillations modulate the response of the coral Acropora hyacinthus to ocean acidification. See Comeau et al. (2014) for details of this study.

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Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier (PID)	Date PID Issued
2020-11-17	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.754703.1	2020-11-19

Methods & Sampling

Seven nubbins from upstream and downstream habitats were placed randomly in each of the 6 treatments, and calcification was measured over the 6 wk period using buoyant weighing (Davies 1989). Buoyant weight (±1 mg) was recorded at the beginning of the incubation and weekly thereafter to test for acclimation to the treatments. The difference in buoyant weight between each week of incubation was converted to dry weight using the density of aragonite (2.93 g cm−3) and used to calculate weekly rates of calcification. Calcification was normalized to surface area of the coral tissue (mg cm−2 d−1) determined using wax dipping (Stimson & Kinzie 1991).

Parameters of the carbonate system were calculated from salinity, temperature, AT, and pHT using the R package seacarb (Lavigne and Gattuso, 2011).

Refer to publication Comeau et al. (2014) for specific methodology.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Data Manager Processing Notes:
* Data submitted as sheet "Calcification" in original excel file "Calcifcation_data_MEPS_2014.xlsx" exported as csv with the formatting that was set in Excel.
* added a conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
* modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions: only A-Za-z0-9 and underscore allowed. Can not start with a number. (spaces, +, and - changed to underscores).

Data Files

File
meps2014_calcif.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 8.33 KB) MD5:f999bfef74ad9dcc1df9f5010772f594 Primary data file for dataset ID 754703

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1415268
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1041270
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1026851
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0417412

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

Automatic titrator

Supplied Name: Mettler Toledo T50

Supplied Description:

TA: Mettler Toledo T50

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Automatic titrator

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB12/

Generic Description:

Instruments that incrementally add quantified aliquots of a reagent to a sample until the end-point of a chemical reaction is reached.

Salinity Sensor

Supplied Name: YSI 63

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Salinity Sensor

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/350/

Generic Description:

Category of instrument that simultaneously measures electrical conductivity and temperature in the water column to provide temperature and salinity data.

Water Temperature Sensor

Supplied Name: ThermoFisher Traceable

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Water Temperature Sensor

Acronym: Water Temp Sensor

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/134/

Generic Description:

General term for an instrument that measures the temperature of the water with which it is in contact (thermometer).

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Origin	Flow habitat	unitless	treatment
Condition	pCO2 regime	microatmospheres (uatm)	treatment
Sample_N	Number of sample coral nubbins	count	count
Calcif_Week1	calcification for week 1 of the experiment which started on September 1st, 2012.	mg CaCO3 cm-2 d-1	calcification
Calcif_Week2	calcification for week 2	mg CaCO3 cm-2 d-1	calcification
Calcif_Week3	calcification for week 3	mg CaCO3 cm-2 d-1	calcification
Calcif_Week4	calcification for week 4	mg CaCO3 cm-2 d-1	calcification
Calcif_Week5	calcification for week 5	mg CaCO3 cm-2 d-1	calcification
Calcif_Week6	calcification for week 6	mg CaCO3 cm-2 d-1	calcification
Cst_vs_osci_treatment	constant or oscillating pCO2 treatments	unitless	treatment
pCO2_level	pCO2 category	unitless	treatment

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Dataset: Comeau 2014 MEPS: calcification