National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Carbonate budget data from a coral reef site near Salt River, St. Croix, USVI on 2019-09-11. (NCEI Accession 0224755)

This archive package contains census-based carbonate budget data that was collected from a coral reef habitat located near Salt River, St. Croix, USVI. Surveys (based on Perry et al. 2012) were conducted at Salt River, St. Croix. Six transect surveys (10m each) were conducted to quantify benthic cover, macrobioerosion, and microbioerosion. Ten parrotfish surveys were also conducted to account for parrotfish erosion rates. This carbonate budget data along with other sea water chemistry data were collected at the long-term monitoring site during the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological (AOML), Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) led NCRMP missions.