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LTER Site: Moorea Coral Reef

Contributor: Margaret O'Brien (Aug 23, 2005)

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The Moorea Coral Reef information management system will be housed at the Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Currently, the Science Coordinator (Andy Brooks) is filling the role of Information Manager, with consultation from Margaret O'Brien, the IM at our sister site, Santa Barbara Coastal, and Chris Jones of the PISCO project. MCR, SBC and PISCO share several investigators, post docs and staff, and so logically, these project will also share information management software and strategies. MCR will actively start its search for an Information Manager in the fall of 2005 whose skills will complement those of our collaborators..

Fieldwork is conducted at the UC Berkeley Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station on Moorea near Lat: -17.5, Lon -149.83. Our researchers are from 4 campuses of the University of California (Santa Barbara, Davis, Santa Cruz, Davis) plus California State University, Northridge and the University of Hawaii. 2005 was the first active field season for the Moorea Coral Reef site. This season, we installed 3 permanent moorings and several seasonal moorings around the island and in lagoons to investigate coastal oceanographic processes. We also established permanent transects on all 3 sides and initated studies of coral structure and function, fish population dynamics, and of nutrient delivery at the reefs. Data has been delivered to the fileserver in Santa Barbara, and we anticipate insertion of data into the LTER-PISCO Metacat data catalog soon after analysis.

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