National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Calcification Rates of Crustose Coralline Algae Derived from Calcification Accretion Units (CAUs) Deployed at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas from 2014 to 2017

Description

The calcification rate data described here are from calcification accretion units (CAUs) that have been retrieved (and replaced) at existing, long-term monitoring sites during the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) led NCRMP missions around St. Thomas in 2014 and 2017 and processed at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. CAUs are PVC settlement plates that facilitate the recruitment and colonization of crustose coralline algae, hard corals, and other reef calcifiers. Laboratory experiments show that CCA and coral calcification rates are strongly correlated with seawater chemistry, and shifts in carbonate chemistry conditions due to ocean acidification could lead to reduced calcification and accretion rates and ecological phase shifts in coral reef communities. Coral reef calcium carbonate accretion rates can be estimated by measuring the change in weight of the CAUs between deployment and retrieval. Monitoring net accretion over successive deployments allows for the detection of changes in reef calcification rates over time. Five units were deployed on the seafloor at each CAU site for 3 years. The number of processed CAUs for a site may be less than the number deployed, either because the units were lost or damaged at sea and therefore not recovered, or in rare instances, due to errors during laboratory processing. This study provides information about spatial and temporal patterns of reef carbonate calcification and accretion rates and serves as a basis for detecting changes associated with changing seawater chemistry due to ocean acidification. These data can also be used in comparative analyses across natural gradients, thereby assisting efforts to determine whether key reef-building taxa can acclimatize to changing oceanographic environments. These data will have immediate, direct impacts on predictions of reef resilience in a higher carbon dioxide (CO2) world and on the design of reef management strategies.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/53223
0 Website listed for Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Assembly, Deployment, and Recovery Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Laboratory Analysis Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Online Resource https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26641885
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
0 Online Resource https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/53223.pdf
0 Quality control report generated for recovered CAU data from sites at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas by the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) during Atlantic NCRMP in 2017. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176063
0 Calcification rate data derived from calcification accretion units (CAUs) deployed at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas in 2014 and recovered in 2017 by the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). CAUs were processed by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176063
0 NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division official website, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) page. http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/pacific_ramp.php
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/53223
0 Website listed for Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Assembly, Deployment, and Recovery Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Laboratory Analysis Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division official website, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) page. https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/pacific_ramp.php
0 Online Resource https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26641885
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
0 Online Resource https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/53223.pdf
0 Calcification rate data derived from calcification accretion units (CAUs) deployed at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas in 2014 and recovered in 2017 by the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). CAUs were processed by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176063
0 Quality control report generated for recovered CAU data from sites at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas by the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) during Atlantic NCRMP in 2017. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176063
0 Quality control report generated for recovered CAU data from sites at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas by the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) during Atlantic NCRMP in 2017. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176063
0 Calcification rate data derived from calcification accretion units (CAUs) deployed at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas in 2014 and recovered in 2017 by the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). CAUs were processed by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176063
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/53223
0 Website listed for Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Assembly, Deployment, and Recovery Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Laboratory Analysis Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division official website, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) page. https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/pacific_ramp.php
0 Online Resource https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26641885
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
0 Online Resource https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/53223.pdf
0 Quality control report generated for recovered CAU data from sites at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas by the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) during Atlantic NCRMP in 2017. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176063
0 Calcification rate data derived from calcification accretion units (CAUs) deployed at Brewer's Bay in St. Thomas in 2014 and recovered in 2017 by the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). CAUs were processed by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176063
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/53223
0 Website listed for Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Assembly, Deployment, and Recovery Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Laboratory Analysis Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division official website, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) page. https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/pacific_ramp.php
0 Online Resource https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26641885
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
0 Online Resource https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/53223.pdf

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  • united states of america
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  • reef monitoring and assessment
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