Dataset: Mussel bed vertical change (laser scans)
Deployment: Fodrie_EstuarineMetaDyn

Laser scan data

Principal Investigator:

F. Joel Fodrie (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC-Chapel Hill-IMS)

Contact:

F. Joel Fodrie (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC-Chapel Hill-IMS)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Project:

Interacting Effects of Local Demography and Larval Connectivity on Estuarine Metapopulation Dynamics (EstuarineMetaDyn)

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/688094/data

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Description

This dataset contains elevation, exposure percentage, average vertical change (m), and average vertical change rate from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina.

Other Back Sound datasets in this project:
Oyster density and length
Water level
Reef elevation, exposure, and vertical change
Laser scan, density, and GPS grid sampling information

These data are published in:

Ridge, J. T., Rodriguez, A. B., Fodrie, F. J., Lindquist, N. L., Brodeur, M. C., Coleman, S. E., ... & Theuerkauf, E. J. (2015). Maximizing oyster-reef growth supports green infrastructure with accelerating sea-level rise. Scientific reports, 5. doi: 10.1038/srep14785

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

A terrestrial laser scanner was used to measure variation in vertical growth across entire reefs constructed in 1997 and 2000, over a two-year time step (measured between 2010 and 2012).

More information available in:

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

BCO-DMO Data Manager Processing Notes:
* added a conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
* modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions
* blank values replaced with no data value 'nd'
* Lat/Lon for Back Sound, NJ added to dataset

More information about this dataset deployment

Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-1155628	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

terrestrial laser scanner

Supplied Name: A terrestrial laser scanner

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: terrestrial laser scanner

Generic Description:

Terrestrial laser scanner

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
location	Sampling location name	unitless	site
location_lat	Approximate sampling location latitude	decimal degrees	lat
location_lon	Approximate sampling location	decimal degrees	lon
elevation	Elevations for initial scans for each reef broken into 2-cm bins and labeled by midpoint; all in reference to NAVD88	centimeters	sea_elevation
exposure	Exposure percentage; The cumulative percent of time that each elevation bin is exposed to air	percent	site_descrip
MF1_1997_avg_change	Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF1-1997	meters	sea_elevation
MF1_1997_avg_change_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF1-1997	meters	sea_elevation
MF1_1997_avg_rate	Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF1-1997	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF1_1997_avg_rate_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF1-1997	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF1_2000_avg_change	Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF1-2000	meters	sea_elevation
MF1_2000_avg_change_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF1-2000	meters	sea_elevation
MF1_2000_avg_rate	Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF1-2000	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF1_2000_avg_rate_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF1-2000	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF2_1997_avg_change	Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF2-1997	meters	sea_elevation
MF2_1997_avg_change_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF2-1997	meters	sea_elevation
MF2_1997_avg_rate	Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF2-1997	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF2_1997_avg_rate_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF2-1997	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF2_2000_avg_change	Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF2-2000	meters	sea_elevation
MF2_2000_avg_change_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF2-2000	meters	sea_elevation
MF2_2000_avg_rate	Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF2-2000	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF2_2000_avg_rate_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF2-2000	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF3_1997_avg_change	Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF3-1997	meters	sea_elevation
MF3_1997_avg_change_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF3-1997	meters	sea_elevation
MF3_1997_avg_rate	Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF3-1997	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF3_1997_avg_rate_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF3-1997	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF4_2000_avg_change	Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF4-2000	meters	sea_elevation
MF4_2000_avg_change_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF4-2000	meters	sea_elevation
MF4_2000_avg_rate	Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF4-2000	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
MF4_2000_avg_rate_sd	Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF4-2000	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
mean_rate	The overall mean rate of vertical change for each elevation bins across all reefs laser scanned	millimeters per year	sea_elevation
mean_avg_change_sd	The overall standard deviation of vertical change rate across all reefs laser scanned	meters	sea_elevation

Database

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Dataset: Mussel bed vertical change (laser scans)
Deployment: Fodrie_EstuarineMetaDyn

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Dataset: Mussel bed vertical change (laser scans)Deployment: Fodrie_EstuarineMetaDyn

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Dataset: Mussel bed vertical change (laser scans)
Deployment: Fodrie_EstuarineMetaDyn