In situ temperature data from August 2019 to May 2020 from one HOBO temperature logger deployed at Emerald Reef in Southeast Florida, USA (NCEI Accession 0292184)

This dataset contains physical data collected from 2019-08-18 to 2020-05-18. These data include water temperature. The instruments used to collect these data include Onset HOBO Pro v2 temperature logger. These data were collected by Ross Cunning of Shedd Aquarium and Andrew Baker of University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science as part of the "Collaborative Research: Assessing the changing symbiotic milieu on Caribbean coral reefs under climate change: magnitude, tradeoffs, interventions, and implications (Symbiont Shifts on Reefs)" project. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NCEI on 2024-01-24.

The following is the text of the dataset description provided by BCO-DMO:

Seasonal temperatures on Floridian coral reef

Dataset Description:
Methods and Sampling:
As part of this study, coral cores were collected from tagged colonies of three coral species in either April 2019 or October 2019 from Emerald Reef in Southeast Florida, USA. Cores were then maintained in aquaria in the Marine Technology and Life Science Seawater complex at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and subjected to experimental heat stress. See related dataset for results fo the qPCR assays conducted as part of the heat stress experiments ( https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/918220 ).

At the Emerald Reef site, a temperature logger (Onset HOBO U22-001 Pro v2) was deployed at 7.8 meters depth by hammering a rebar stake into the reef substrate, then securing the logger around the rebar close to the benthos using zipties. The logger was deployed from August 2019 to May 2020. These in situ temperature data were used to inform seasonal temperature variation on this reef.