MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Benthic Water Temperature, ongoing since 2005

A continuous time series of water temperature is measured with bottom-mounted thermistors at six sites around the shores of Moorea, on the fringing reef, backreef, and forereef. The forereef temperature is recorded at 10, 20, 30 and 40 m, the backreef at 1 m and the fringing reef at 1 and 5 m. SBE 39s are deployed to the forereef and backreef. Onset HOBOs are deployed on the fringing reef. Temperature data are processed and resampled to a 20 minute time step.