Dataset: Comeau 2014 PRSB: calcification and chemistry

Name: Calcification and carbonate chemistry from outdoor flume experiments with corals at locations in Moorea, Okinawa, and Hawaii from 2011 to 2013
Published: 2020-12-02
Keywords: oceans

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Temporal Extent: 2011-09 - 2013-06

Project:

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:

Long Term Ecological Research network (LTER)

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

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:

Kathryn Scafidi (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

Griffin Srednick (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

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Version Date:

2020-12-02

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Calcification and carbonate chemistry from outdoor flume experiments with corals at locations in Moorea, Okinawa, and Hawaii from 2011 to 2013

Abstract:

Pacific-wide contrast of reef calcifiers to ocean acidification. Data were published in Comeau et al. (2014). Calcification and carbonate chemistry from outdoor flume experiments with corals at locations in Moorea, Okinawa, and Hawaii from 2011 to 2013.

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Methods & Sampling

See Comeau et al. (2014) for full methodology details.

Locations:
UCB Gump Research Station, Moorea, French Polynesia
Sesoko Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, Okinawa, Japan
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), Coconut Island, Oahu, Hawaii

Methodology:

At the three locations, pH was measured twice daily using a porta- ble pH meter (Orion 3-stars) fitted with a DG 115-SC pH probe (Mettler) calibrated every other day with Tris/HCl buffers (A. Dickson, San Diego, CA, USA). In Moorea and in Hawaii, pH also was measured spectrophotometrically once a week using m- cresol dye.T was calculated using a modified Gran function applied to pH values ranging from 3.5 to 3.0. Parameters of the carbonate system in seawater were calculated from salinity, temperature, AT and pHT using the R package seacarb.

To quantify net calcification, the difference between the initial and final buoyant weight after 14 days of incubation was converted to dry weight using an aragonite density of 2.93 g cm-3 for corals and Halimeda macroloba, and a calcite density of 2.71 g cm-3 for Porolithon onkodes. Net calcification was normalized to surface area, obtained using the foil technique for corals, and image analysis (IMAGEJ, US NIH) of aerial photographs for P. onkodes.

Species list:

Halimeda macroloba (macroalga). AphiaID 211524
Pocillopora damicornis (coral). AphiaID 206953
Porolithon onkodes (macroalga). AphiaID 495983
massive Porites (coral). AphiaID 206485

Data Processing Description

R packages:
Lavigne H, Gattuso J-P. 2011. seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 2.4.1. http://CRAN.Rproject.org/ package=seacarb

BCO-DMO Data Manager Processing Notes:
* Original file submitted as folder/file "Comeau et al. 2014 - PRSB/comeau et al. 2014_data.xlsx" sheet "data" extracted to csv.
* 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).
* Taxon names checked using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Species list added to Acquisition Description including the AphiaIDs.

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
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.

Light Meter

Supplied Name: 4p quantum sensor (LI-193) and a LiCor LI-1400

Supplied Description:

Light: 4p quantum sensor (LI-193) and a LiCor LI-1400 meter

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Light Meter

Generic Description:

Light meters are instruments that measure light intensity. Common units of measure for light intensity are umol/m2/s or uE/m2/s (micromoles per meter squared per second or microEinsteins per meter squared per second). (example: LI-COR 250A)

pH Sensor

Supplied Name:

Supplied Description:

pH: Orion 3-stars pH Meter fitted with a DG 115-SC pH probe

Instrument Type

Generic Name: pH Sensor

Generic Description:

An instrument that measures the hydrogen ion activity in solutions.

The overall concentration of hydrogen ions is inversely related to its pH. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14 and indicates whether acidic (more H+) or basic (less H+).

Salinity Sensor

Supplied Name: YSI 3100

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.

Temperature Logger

Supplied Name: ThermoFisher Traceable

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Temperature Logger

Generic Description:

Records temperature data over a period of time.

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Location	Location	unitless	site
Species	Species. Identification in format Genus species (category or common name)	unitless	species
pCO2water_SST_wet_1	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	uatm	pCO2
AT	Alkalinity, total. Potentiometric titration.	umol/kg	TALK
pH	pH, total scale. Potentiometric.	total hydrogen ion scale (pHT)	pH
Temp	Temperature, water	degrees C	temp
Sal	Salinity	PSU	sal
Calc_rate_CaCO3_surf	Calcification rate of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) normalized by surface. Buoyant weighing technique (Davies, 1989).	mg/cm2/day	calcification
Calc_rate_CaCO3_biom	Calcification rate of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) normalized by biomass (tissue dry weight). Buoyant weighing technique (Davies, 1989).	mg/g/day	calcification
Date_start	Date and month of experiment start in format yyyy-mm	unitless	Date_Month
Date_end	Date and month of experiment end in format yyyy-mm	unitless	Date_Month
CSC_flag	Carbonate system computation flag. Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	unitless	no_bcodmo_term
CO2	Carbon dioxide. Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	umol/kg	CO2
pCO2water_SST_wet_2	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air). Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	uatm	pCO2
fCO2water_SST_wet	Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air). Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	uatm	fCO2
Bicarbonate_ion	Bicarbonate ion [HCO3]-. Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	umol/kg	bicarbonate
Carbonate_ion	Carbonate ion [CO3]2-. Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	umol/kg	carbonate
DIC	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved. Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	umol/kg	DIC
Omega_Arg	Aragonite saturation state. Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	Omega Arg (Ωa)	OM_ar
Omega_Cal	Calcite saturation state. Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010).	Omega Cal (Ωcal)	OM_ca

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