Cara L. Fiore

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Address:

572 Rivers St
Boone, NC
USA 28607

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Program coordination

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Project coordination

Collaborative Research: Investigations into microbially mediated ecological diversification in sponges (Ecological Diversification in Sponges)	Principal Investigator
Collaborative Research: The Influence of Sponge Holobiont Metabolism on Coral Reef Dissolved Organic Matter and Reef Microorganisms (Sponge Holobiont DOM)	Lead Principal Investigator

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Datasets

Project: Collaborative Research: The Influence of Sponge Holobiont Metabolism on Coral Reef Dissolved Organic Matter and Reef Microorganisms

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Seawater nutrient/metabolite and flow cytometry metadata - Picoplankton incubation experiment 2020 Co-Principal Investigator	2023-09-07	Final no updates expected
Benthic survey of Looe Key and Wonderland Reef conducted in 10-15 December 2023 Co-Principal Investigator, Contact	2024-05-02	Final no updates expected
Surface water and N.digitalis inhalent/exhalent water sample nutrient and bacterioplankton metadata of Looe Key and Wonderland Reef conducted in 10-15 December 2023 Co-Principal Investigator	2024-05-02	Final no updates expected
Isotopic analysis of ¹³C and ¹⁵N for sponges, coral, and zooxanthellae (family Symbiodiniaceae) used in a 'pulse-chase' experiment to examine the uptake of sponge-derived nutrients by the coral holobiont Principal Investigator	2023-02-16	Final no updates expected
Coral fragment surface area calculations utilizing two methods (tin foil and Image J) and corresponding zooxanthellae count data Principal Investigator	2022-09-21	Final no updates expected

Project: Collaborative Research: Investigations into microbially mediated ecological diversification in sponges

Dataset	Version Date	Current State
Literature review of sponge-microbe interactions on sixteen characteristics of 82 sponges. Co-Principal Investigator	2025-03-04	Data not available
Autotrophy, heterotrophy and niche partitioning in Caribbean sponges sampled June 9, 2019 on reef sites around Bocas del Toro Panama. Co-Principal Investigator	2025-02-27	Data not available
Bulk isotope data from sponges collected in Summerland Key in Florida between July 27 - August 19, 2021 Co-Principal Investigator	2025-02-26	Data not available
NanoSIMS data from sponges collected in Summerland Key in Florida between July 27 - August 19, 2021 Co-Principal Investigator	2025-02-26	Data not available
16S microbiome metadata collected from shallow artificial reef sponges and seawater in the Florida Keys, USA from Apr 2021 to Aug 2021 Co-Principal Investigator	2025-02-21	Preliminary and in progress
Potential microplastic counts of 6 common Caribbean spong species collected June 21, 2019 in Bocas del Toro, Panamá Co-Principal Investigator	2025-02-12	Data not available
Fluorescence dissolved organic matter (fDOM) analysis of inhalant and exhalent water samples from sponges studied at an artificial reef off the coast of the Florida Keys, USA in August 2021 Co-Principal Investigator	2023-08-11	Final no updates expected

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