# Alina's Reef, Biscayne National Park - Stable Isotope Data #---------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #---------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 4.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite original publication, NOAA Landing Page URL, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, study title, NOAA Landing Page URL, and date accessed. # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # NOAA_Landing_Page: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/1885 # Landing_Page_Description: NOAA Landing Page of this file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Study_Level_JSON_Metadata: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/json/noaa-coral-1885.json # Study_Level_JSON_Description: JSON metadata of this data file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Data_Type: Corals and Sclerosponges # # Dataset_DOI: 10.25921/jmxq-8v38 # # Science_Keywords: #-------------------- # Resource_Links # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/atlantic/swart1996-fave_noaa.txt # Data_Download_Description: NOAA Template File; Annual Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Data # #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 1996-07-01 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2025-07-11 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Alina's Reef, Biscayne National Park - Stable Isotope Data #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Swart, P.K.(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6743-6162); Dodge, R.E.; Hudson, J.H. #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: Annual mean oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions from the skeleton of a specimen of Montastraea faveolata cored in 1986 by Harold Hudson at Alina's Reef in Biscayne National Park. The skeleton was sampled at about 10-15 samples a year and these data have been pooled to construct the annual means. Alina's Reef, Biscayne National Park, Florida USA. 24 25' N, 80 10' W, 10m. water depth. Montastraea faveolata. #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Swart, P.K., R.E. Dodge, and H.J. Hudson # Journal_Name: Palaios # Published_Title: A 240-year stable oxygen and carbon isotopic record in a coral from South Florida: Implications for the prediction of precipitation in southern Florida # Published_Date_or_Year: 1996 # Volume: 11 # Issue: 4 # Pages: 362-375 # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.2307/3515246 # Full_Citation: # Abstract: This study reports on the d180 and d13C composition of the skeleton from a 240-year-old specimen of Montastraea faveolata growing in Biscayne National Park, South Florida. Annual variations in the d180 of the skeleton deposited during the summer months show a bimodal correlation with summer rainfall. During wetter years, the d180 of the coral skeleton and the amount of precipitation during the summer months are inversely correlated (r = -0.7) reflecting dilution of the seawater by meteoric water lower in d180. During years in which summer rainfall is less than normal, increases in precipitation are positively correlated with skeletal d180 (r = +0.6) reflecting the input of freshwater from the Everglades higher in d180. Based on this correlation the d180 record of the coral skeleton suggests that the 19th and 18th centuries have been relatively dry compared to the 20th century. Carbon isotopic compositions of the skeleton are positively correlated with d180, with the minimum in d13C occurring several months after the minimum in d180. Since the mid 1930s there has been a decrease in d13C of the skeleton. Explanations for this trend may be (1) it reflects the increased input of carbon derived from the destruction of terrestrial ecosystems, (2) its part of a long-term decrease in d13C associated with increased addition of fossil fuel-derived CO2. #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: US National Science Foundation # Grant: OCE-8900005, OCE-8907101 #-------------------- # Site_Information # Site_Name: Alina's Reef, Biscayne National Park # Location: Florida # Northernmost_Latitude: 25.38 # Southernmost_Latitude: 25.38 # Easternmost_Longitude: -80.17 # Westernmost_Longitude: -80.17 # Elevation_m: -10 #-------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: Alina's Reef, Biscayne National Park Core 001 # First_Year: 1751 # Last_Year: 1986 # Time_Unit: CE # Core_Length_m: # Parameter_Keywords: del18O, del13C # Notes: #-------------------- # Chronology_Information # Chronology: #-------------------- # Variables # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/skos/past-thesaurus.rdf # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Description: Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus terms, definitions, and relationships in SKOS format. # # Data variables follow that are preceded by '##' in columns one and two. # Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-var components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, data type, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data) # ## age age,,,year Common Era,,corals and sclerosponges,,,N, ## d18O delta 18O,Orbicella faveolata,,per mil PDB,annual,corals and sclerosponges,interpolated,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N, ## d13C delta 13C,Orbicella faveolata,,per mil PDB,annual,corals and sclerosponges,interpolated,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N, #-------------------- # Data: # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - 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