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Moorea 2022 Adult Coral Stressor Experiment
This post includes the full notebook for Sept-Dec 2022 Acropora pulchra adult coral experiment Moorea, French Polynesia. These notebook posts are updated in order of most recent to oldest.
Project Overview
The goal of this project is to expose adult Acropora pulchra corals to conditions that elicit changes in symbiotic and metabolic condition and test how these changes influence response to a repeat stressor. Here, we are manipulating light and feeding conditions to elicit metabolic and symbiotic responses and testing stress response at the end of the experiment using the thermal stress CBASS system. The team will expose adult corals to light with added food, light with no added food, and shade with added food in Sept - Dec with thermal stress phenotype measurement in Dec with S. Matsuda and R. Cunning.
The experimental design overview can be seen here:
This post details activities and notebooks for this project.
Field expedition members:
Ariana Huffmyer, URI
Pierrick Harnay, URI
Danielle Becker-Polinski, URI
Hollie Putnam, URI
Shayle Matsuda, Shedd Aquarium
Ross Cunning, Shedd Aquarium
Helpful links
The following protocols and links to data will be used regularly by the field team conducting this project.
Daily measurements:
Daily measurements protocol
Daily measurement data sheet
Schedule daily checklist
Weekly maintenance:
Weekly maintenance protocol
Schedule weekly checklist
Fragment metadata and sample tracking:
Fragment tracking datasheet
Sample inventory
Baseline sampling:
Baseline sampling protocol
Baseline sampling checklist
Sample inventory
Logger files:
Logger files folder
Feeding protocol:
Feeding protocol
Moorea 2022 Coral Spawning and Field Expedition Daily Entries
This post includes the daily entry notebook for Sept-Oct 2022 Acropora coral spawning and field expedition in Moorea, French Polynesia. These notebook posts are updated in order of most recent to oldest.