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attribute NC_GLOBAL access_formats String .htmlTable,.csv,.json,.mat,.nc,.tsv,.esriCsv,.geoJson
attribute NC_GLOBAL acquisition_description String Prior to the 2017 hurricanes, six shallow (8-15 m depth) reef sites had been\nselected from the Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring\nProgram\\u2019s (TCRMP) permanent monitoring sites to study variation in sponge\ncommunities in St. Thomas. These sites included Black Point\n(N18\\u00b0\\u00a020.665\\u2019, W64\\u00b0\\u00a059.107\\u2019), Coculus Rock\n(N18\\u00b0\\u00a018.734\\u2019, W64\\u00b0\\u00a051.613\\u2019), and Magens Bay\n(N18\\u00b0 22.459\\u2019, W64\\u00b0 56.077\\u2019), which are in embayments with\nheavily developed watersheds. Buck Island (N18\\u00b0 16.717\\u2019, W64\\u00b0\n53.925\\u2019) and Savana Island (N18\\u00b0\\u00a020.437\\u2019,\nW65\\u00b0\\u00a004.939\\u2019) are located near undeveloped offshore cays.\nBotany Bay (N18\\u00b0\\u00a021.433\\u2019, W65\\u00b0\\u00a002.071\\u2019) is a\nnearshore site in a bay with a low level of watershed development. For this\nstudy, we used three randomly selected transects out of the six permanently\nestablished 10 m TCRMP transects at each site. The same three transects at\neach site were re-surveyed repeatedly in August 2015, August 2016 (pre-\nhurricanes) and December 2017 (10 weeks post-hurricanes).\\u00a0\n \nAt each site, sponge volume was calculated within permanent 1 m2\\u00a0quadrats\ncentered on the transect line within the initial and/or final meter of the\ntransect. Sponge volume was calculated for 3-5 quadrats per site. As there\nwere over 80 species of sponges within our survey areas, representing a wide\ndiversity of morphologies, we chose to use a standardized measurement approach\nfor all sponges, rather than calculating the true volumetric measurement for\neach sponge based on its actual morphology. Thus, sponges were essentially\ntreated as cuboids. We used a flexible sewing tape to measure the longest\ndimension of the sponge, then one to several width measurements perpendicular\nto the initial length measurement, and one to several height measurements, as\nneeded to represent the shape and dimensions of each sponge. Multiple\nmeasurements for each dimension were averaged and length x width x height was\ncalculated. For large tubes, of which there were relatively few, we subtracted\nthe dimensions of the interior cavity from the exterior dimensions of the\nsponge. Generated data were in cm3 of sponge/m2 (Gochfeld et al. 2020).
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_award_nid String 749383
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_award_number String OCE-1807807
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_data_url String http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1807807 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_funder_name String NSF Division of Ocean Sciences
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_funding_acronym String NSF OCE
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_funding_source_nid String 355
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_program_manager String Daniel Thornhill
attribute NC_GLOBAL awards_0_program_manager_nid String 722161
attribute NC_GLOBAL cdm_data_type String Other
attribute NC_GLOBAL comment String Sponge volume \n      at Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program (TCRMP) permanent monitoring sites, 2015-2017 \n   PI's: D. Gochfeld (U Miss), J. Olson (U.AL), M. Brandt (UVI) \n   version date: 2020-06-08
attribute NC_GLOBAL Conventions String COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3
attribute NC_GLOBAL creator_email String info at bco-dmo.org
attribute NC_GLOBAL creator_name String BCO-DMO
attribute NC_GLOBAL creator_type String institution
attribute NC_GLOBAL creator_url String https://www.bco-dmo.org/ (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL data_source String extract_data_as_tsv version 2.3  19 Dec 2019
attribute NC_GLOBAL dataset_current_state String Final and no updates
attribute NC_GLOBAL date_created String 2020-06-08T18:54:00Z
attribute NC_GLOBAL date_modified String 2020-07-08T21:22:35Z
attribute NC_GLOBAL defaultDataQuery String &time<now
attribute NC_GLOBAL doi String 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.814490.1
attribute NC_GLOBAL Easternmost_Easting double -64.8602
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_lat_max double 18.3743
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_lat_min double 18.2786
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_lat_units String degrees_north
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_lon_max double -64.8602
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_lon_min double -65.0823
attribute NC_GLOBAL geospatial_lon_units String degrees_east
attribute NC_GLOBAL infoUrl String https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/814490 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL institution String BCO-DMO
attribute NC_GLOBAL keywords String bco, bco-dmo, biological, chemical, data, dataset, description, dmo, erddap, latitude, longitude, management, name, oceanography, office, preliminary, quadrat, site, site_description, site_name, sponge, sponge_volume, volume, year
attribute NC_GLOBAL license String https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/814490/license (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL metadata_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/api/dataset/814490 (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL Northernmost_Northing double 18.3743
attribute NC_GLOBAL param_mapping String {'814490': {'lat': 'master - latitude', 'lon': 'master - longitude'}}
attribute NC_GLOBAL parameter_source String https://www.bco-dmo.org/mapserver/dataset/814490/parameters (external link)
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_affiliation String University of Mississippi
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_affiliation_acronym String UM-NCNPR
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_person_name String Deborah J Gochfeld
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_person_nid String 51458
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_role String Principal Investigator
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_0_role_type String originator
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_affiliation String University of the Virgin Islands Center for Marine and Environmental Studies
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_person_name String Marilyn Brandt
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_person_nid String 559376
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_role String Co-Principal Investigator
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_1_role_type String originator
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_affiliation String University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_affiliation_acronym String UA/Tuscaloosa
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_person_name String Julie Olson
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_person_nid String 51454
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_role String Co-Principal Investigator
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_2_role_type String originator
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_3_affiliation String Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_3_affiliation_acronym String WHOI BCO-DMO
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_3_person_name String Nancy Copley
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_3_person_nid String 50396
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_3_role String BCO-DMO Data Manager
attribute NC_GLOBAL people_3_role_type String related
attribute NC_GLOBAL project String Sponge resilience
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_acronym String Sponge resilience
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_description String NSF Award Abstract:\nOver the past several decades, coral reefs worldwide have undergone a transition from being dominated by the corals themselves to being dominated by sponges or algae. The causes of these changes are complex, but they include both natural stressors, such as diseases and hurricanes, and impacts from human activities, such as coastal development and climate change. There are over 600 species of sponges on Caribbean coral reefs, and they serve many important ecological roles, including nutrient cycling, providing food and shelter for other reef animals, and producing a tremendous diversity of chemical compounds that are important for controlling species interactions on the reef, and may serve as potential new drugs. In spite of their importance on coral reefs, there are many aspects of sponge biology that remain unknown, including how they respond to different types of stressors. Coral reefs in St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, are exposed to different levels of man-made stressors, depending upon their proximity to coastal development, and the sponge assemblages on these reefs also vary with levels of human impacts. In September 2017, St. Thomas was devastated by two Category 5 hurricanes in a row. Since, unlike corals, virtually nothing is known about what happens to sponge communities in the aftermath of hurricanes, the research team will use a combination of field ecology and population genetics approaches to determine how sponge communities respond and recover from these devastating storms and whether prior exposure to land-based stressors affects their recovery. Researchers at the Universities of Mississippi, Alabama and the Virgin Islands will participate in this RAPID project, and will provide training opportunities for students and postdoctoral researchers, especially from underrepresented groups. Information will be provided to resource managers in the Virgin Islands, along with outreach programs to community groups in St. Thomas.\nThe goal of this project is to assess the impacts of single (e.g., hurricanes) versus multiple (e.g., hurricanes and land-based sources of pollution) stressors on the resilience, recovery, and recruitment of sponge communities in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. Given the growing dominance of sponges on coral reefs worldwide, understanding the responses of sponges to natural and anthropogenic stressors is increasingly important. The investigators will leverage multiple years of data on sponge assemblages from several sites around the island of St. Thomas that varied in their levels of exposure to local land-based stressors prior to Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and evaluate changes to these diverse assemblages over time, beginning within 3 months of these devastating storms. Using a combination of natural and experimentally cleared plots, the investigators will assess the progress of sponge succession and whether the presence of algae interferes with sponge recruitment and recovery. Subsamples of recruits and nearby conspecifics will be collected to evaluate population genetic diversity and potential sources of new individuals. The data resulting from this project will provide critical insights into sponge resilience in response to hurricanes at sites previously exposed to land-based stressors, the initiation of succession within sponge communities, potential predictors of successional trajectory, and genetic diversity within sponge populations following a storm event. This information will help identify factors that inhibit coral recovery and potential approaches to enhance resilience of coral reefs.
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_end_date String 2019-11
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_geolocation String St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_name String RAPID:  Collaborative Research:  Sponge resilience in the face of multiple stressors
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_project_nid String 749384
attribute NC_GLOBAL projects_0_start_date String 2017-12
attribute NC_GLOBAL publisher_name String Biological and Chemical Oceanographic Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
attribute NC_GLOBAL publisher_type String institution
attribute NC_GLOBAL sourceUrl String (local files)
attribute NC_GLOBAL Southernmost_Northing double 18.2786
attribute NC_GLOBAL standard_name_vocabulary String CF Standard Name Table v55
attribute NC_GLOBAL summary String Sponge volume at Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program\\u2019s (TCRMP) permanent monitoring sites, 2015-2017.
attribute NC_GLOBAL title String [Sponge volume] - Sponge volume at Virgin Islands Territorial Coral Reef Monitoring Program’s (TCRMP) permanent monitoring sites, 2015-2017 (RAPID: Collaborative Research: Sponge resilience in the face of multiple stressors)
attribute NC_GLOBAL version String 1
attribute NC_GLOBAL Westernmost_Easting double -65.0823
attribute NC_GLOBAL xml_source String osprey2erddap.update_xml() v1.5
variable year short
attribute year _FillValue short 32767
attribute year actual_range short 2015, 2017
attribute year bcodmo_name String year
attribute year description String sampling year
attribute year long_name String Year
attribute year nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/YEARXXXX/ (external link)
attribute year units String unitless
variable site String
attribute site bcodmo_name String site
attribute site description String sampling site identifier
attribute site long_name String Site
attribute site units String unitless
variable site_name String
attribute site_name bcodmo_name String site
attribute site_name description String name of sampling site
attribute site_name long_name String Site Name
attribute site_name units String unitless
variable site_description String
attribute site_description bcodmo_name String site_descrip
attribute site_description description String description of relative human development of site
attribute site_description long_name String Site Description
attribute site_description units String unitless
variable latitude double
attribute latitude _CoordinateAxisType String Lat
attribute latitude _FillValue double NaN
attribute latitude actual_range double 18.2786, 18.3743
attribute latitude axis String Y
attribute latitude bcodmo_name String latitude
attribute latitude colorBarMaximum double 90.0
attribute latitude colorBarMinimum double -90.0
attribute latitude description String latitude; north is positive
attribute latitude ioos_category String Location
attribute latitude long_name String Latitude
attribute latitude nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/LATX/ (external link)
attribute latitude standard_name String latitude
attribute latitude units String degrees_north
variable longitude double
attribute longitude _CoordinateAxisType String Lon
attribute longitude _FillValue double NaN
attribute longitude actual_range double -65.0823, -64.8602
attribute longitude axis String X
attribute longitude bcodmo_name String longitude
attribute longitude colorBarMaximum double 180.0
attribute longitude colorBarMinimum double -180.0
attribute longitude description String longitude; east is positive
attribute longitude ioos_category String Location
attribute longitude long_name String Longitude
attribute longitude nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P09/current/LONX/ (external link)
attribute longitude standard_name String longitude
attribute longitude units String degrees_east
variable quadrat String
attribute quadrat bcodmo_name String sample
attribute quadrat description String quadrat identifier
attribute quadrat long_name String Quadrat
attribute quadrat nerc_identifier String https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/ACYC/ (external link)
attribute quadrat units String unitless
variable sponge_volume float
attribute sponge_volume _FillValue float NaN
attribute sponge_volume actual_range float 37.8, 11334.17
attribute sponge_volume bcodmo_name String volume
attribute sponge_volume description String estimated volume of all sponges In quadrat
attribute sponge_volume long_name String Sponge Volume
attribute sponge_volume units String centimeters^3 of sponge/meter^2 (cm3/m2)

 
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