NOAA Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) Benthic Ecosystem Assessment and Research
20080901
Acropora Spatial Survey Data of the Upper Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 2005 -2007 (NODC Accession 0046934)
vector digital data
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0046934
Presence or absence of acroporid corals marked by handheld GPS during snorkel or tow surveys of shallow water (<5m) reef habitats in the Upper Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (USA)
To document the presence or absence of Acropora spp at shallow reef sites in the Upper Florida Keys (USA)
20050523
20070801
ground condition
None planned
-81.410790
-80.196320
25.291290
24.544660
NCEI Geoportal FilterCoRIS_Metadata
CRCP Project
Assessment of Candidate Corals
1055
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Geographic Information > Reef Locations
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Marine Invertebrates > Census > Population density
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral reef ecology
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Photic zone corals
ISO 19115 Topic Category
environment
007
biota
002
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Key Largo (25N080W0010)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Key Largo (25N080W0010)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Grecian Rocks (25N080W0019)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Grecian Rocks (25N080W0019)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Dry Rocks (25N080W0011)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Dry Rocks (25N080W0011)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Elbow Reef (25N080W0020)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Elbow Reef (25N080W0020)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > French Reef (25N080W0022)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > French Reef (25N080W0022)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > White Bank Dry Rocks (25N080W0021)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > White Bank Dry Rocks (25N080W0021)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Conch Reef (24N080W0011)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Conch Reef (24N080W0011)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Upper Florida Keys > Molasses Reef (25N080W0003)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Molasses Reef (25N080W0003)
CoRIS Region
Florida
https://coris.noaa.gov/data/taxonomy_031008.xls
Acropora palmata
Acropora cervicornis
None
Please cite contributors when using this data
Dana Williams
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Protected Resources Division
Physical Mailing
75 Virginia Beach Dr
Miami
FL
33149
305-361-4569
Margaret W. Miller
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.0.1324
Not applicable
data set includes spatial data from various shallow reef areas
Dataset imported into ArcGIS for spatial representation. An accompanying field manual includes detailed information on survey methods, use of the handheld GPS (i.e. appropriate settings), as well as descriptions of attribute definitions which are defined and illustrated in photographs.
https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0046934/data/0-data/AcroporaGPSSurveyProtocol.pdf
20080905
Vector
Entity Point
3865
0.000001
0.000001
Decimal Degrees
D_WGS_1984
WGS_1984
6378137.000000
298.257224
Acropsppsurvey
geodatabase
multiple attributes
FID
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Coordinates defining the features.
Point_Name
individual identifier for the GPS waypoint
assigned by data manager
4 digit alphanumeric number
Date_Marked
Date the GPS waypoint was collected
GPS
Day month and year
File_Name
Name of the original waypoint file where raw data is archived
assigned by data manager
alphanumeric identifier
Region
General reef region of the survey
assigned by data manager
Two letter code
Lat
Latitude
handheld GPS
decimal degrees
Long
Longitude
handheld GPS
decimal degrees
Attribute
Code identifying the benthic feature marked by the waypoint
recorded during field survey
one word description
GPS_Unit
Code used to identify individual GPS unit that was used during the surveys
recorded during field survey
alphanumeric identifier
Sampling_Method
method used to survey area
recorded at time of survey
one word description
Track_Overlay
file name of GPS track of the survey in which the waypoint was marked
Assigned by data manager
alphanumeric file name
Notes
comments recorded during collection of data
recorded by surveyor
varies
Dana Williams
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Protected Resources Division
Physical Mailing
75 Virginia Beach Dr
Miami
FL
33149
305-361-4569
Downloadable Data
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pdf
https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0046934/data/0-data/AcroporaSurveyFR-ML.pdf
pdf
https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0046934/data/0-data/AcroporaSurveyGR-EL.pdf
ESRI Shapefile
https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0046934/data/0-data/
None
20220505
20081010
Dana Williams
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Protected Resources Division
Physical Mailing
75 Virginia Beach Dr
Miami
FL
33149
305-361-4569
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
Local Time
http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
ESRI Metadata Profile
20081010015458
None
20050523
20070801
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/nmfs_acropsppsurvey_meta.html
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