Dataset: Seawater chemistry measurements for Porites macrobioerosion experiments collected from reefs from across the Pacific Basin (Coral Reef Ecosystem OA Impact project)

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedVersion (2017-04-20)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator, Contact: Anne L. Cohen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Student, Contact: Thomas DeCarlo (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


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

Program: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB)

Project: Toward Predicting the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Net Calcification by a Broad Range of Coral Reef Ecosystems: Identifying Patterns and Underlying Causes (Coral Reef Ecosystem OA Impact)

Project: Constraining Thermal Thresholds and Projections of Temperature Stress on Pacific Coral Reefs Over the 21st Century: Method Refinement and Application (Thermal Thresholds and Projections)

Seawater chemistry (total alkalinity, dissolved inorganic carbon, temperature, salinity, nitrate concentration and the aragonite saturation state, omega) is reported from areas of both low-nutrient (oligotrophic) and high-nutrient (>1 µM nitrate) waters across the Pacific basin.

Related Datasets:
Porites macrobioerosion
Porites macrobioerosion: skeleton density: individual core data


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Methods

D’Croz, L., & O’Dea, A. (2007). Variability in upwelling along the Pacific shelf of Panama and implications for the distribution of nutrients and chlorophyll. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 73(1-2), 325–340. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2007.01.013
Methods

Manzello, D. P., Kleypas, J. A., Budd, D. A., Eakin, C. M., Glynn, P. W., & Langdon, C. (2008). Poorly cemented coral reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific: Possible insights into reef development in a high-CO2 world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(30), 10450–10455. doi:10.1073/pnas.0712167105
Methods

Shamberger, K. E. F., Cohen, A. L., Golbuu, Y., McCorkle, D. C., Lentz, S. J., & Barkley, H. C. (2014). Diverse coral communities in naturally acidified waters of a Western Pacific reef. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(2), 499–504. doi:10.1002/2013gl058489
Related Research

DeCarlo, T. M., Cohen, A. L., Barkley, H. C., Cobban, Q., Young, C., Shamberger, K. E., Brainard R.E., Golbuu, Y. (2015). Coral macrobioerosion is accelerated by ocean acidification and nutrients. Geology, 43(1), 7–10. doi:10.1130/g36147.1