Dataset: coral-light expt.- temp_salinity

Name: Temperature and salinity measurements from coral-light experiments (Dufault, 2013, JEB), Taiwan 2010 (MCR LTER project, Climate_Coral_Larvae project)
Published: 2014-08-30
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:21.9382 E:120.746 S:21.9382 W:120.746

Project:

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

The ecophysiological basis of the response of coral larvae and early life history stages to global climate change (Climate_Coral_Larvae)

Program:

Long Term Ecological Research network (LTER)

Principal Investigator:

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

Student:

Aaron M. Dufault (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

2014-08-30

Version Date:

2014-08-30

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Temperature and salinity measurements from coral-light experiments (Dufault, 2013, JEB), Taiwan 2010 (MCR LTER project, Climate_Coral_Larvae project)

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Description

The effect of light and PCO2 on the calcification and survival of Pocillopora damicornis recruits settled from larvae
released in southern Taiwan was tested.

These data include the temperature and salinity measurements for each light treatment in each of the tanks over the duration of the experiment.

These data were published in Aaron M Dufault, Aaron Ninokawa, Lorenzo Bramanti, Vivian R Cumbo, Tung-Yung Fan, Peter J Edmunds (2013) The role of light in mediating the effects of ocean acidification on coral calcification. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 1570-1577. doi:10.1242/jeb.080549

Download complete data for this publication (Excel file)

Methods & Sampling

In March 2011and June 2012, recruits were incubated at 31, 41, 70, 122 and 226 µmol photons m-2 s-1 under ambient (493 µatm) and high PCO2 (878 µatm). After 5 days, calcification was measured gravimetrically and survivorship estimated as the number of living recruits.

Temperature and salinity were measured twice daily in each tank. Salinity was measured with a conductivity meter (±0.1 accuracy, model 340i, WTW GmbH, Weilheim, Germany), and temperature with a certified digital thermometer (±0.05°C accuracy, Fisher Scientific Traceable Digital Thermometer, Pittsburgh, PA, USA).

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO processing notes:

- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date, reference information
- added lab, lat, lon, expt columns
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard
- added days values for expt. 1
- reformated date from m/d/yyyy to yyyy/mm/dd
- sorted by expt, treatment_pCO2, tank, date, time

Data Files

File
temp_sal.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 5.42 KB) MD5:9ed31e00793c3e800e2d5a1b3fd9e8fa Primary data file for dataset ID 527729

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0844785

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
lab_Edmunds_NMMBA		2010-03-18	Natl Museum Mar. Bio. and Aquar. Taiwan	Peter J. Edmunds (Lead Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

Conductivity Meter

Supplied Description:

±0.1 accuracy, model 340i, WTW GmbH, Weilheim, Germany

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Conductivity Meter

Generic Description:

Conductivity Meter - An electrical conductivity meter (EC meter) measures the electrical conductivity in a solution. Commonly used in hydroponics, aquaculture and freshwater systems to monitor the amount of nutrients, salts or impurities in the water.

Water Temperature Sensor

Supplied Name: Water Temp Sensor

Supplied Description:

a certified digital thermometer (±0.05°C accuracy, Fisher Scientific Traceable Digital Thermometer, Pittsburgh, PA, USA).

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
lab	laboratory	unitless	laboratory
lat	latitude; north is positive	degrees	lat
lon	longitude; east is positive	degrees	lon
expt	experiment identification number	unitless	exp_id
tank	tank identification number	unitless	tank
treatment_pCO2	relative partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) target for treatment	unitless	pCO2
days	number of days into the experiment	days	days
date	date of measurements	yyyy/mm/dd	date
time	time of measurements	HHMM	time
temp	temperature for a day and time of measure	degrees Celsius	temp
sal	salinity for a day and time of measure	PSU	sal

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Dataset: coral-light expt.- temp_salinity