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Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory

Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems

6
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Deployments
1
Platforms
0
Data Products

The Campaign

The COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) campaign focused on studying the current health of coral reefs and the effects of pollution on the reefs. CORAL had six deployments in various places, including Australia, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, and Florida in June - October 2016 and February - May 2017. Airborne instruments observed spectra of light reflected upward toward the instrument from the ocean below, which was then used to identify reef composition (i.e., coral, algae, and sand) and model primary production. CORAL was one of NASA’s Earth Venture Suborbital-2 (EVS-2) projects.

2016-06-06 — 2017-05-28

Great Barrier Reef, Hawaiian Islands, Florida, Mariana Islands, Palau
year round

N: 27°N

S: 30°S

W: 83°W

E: 160°E

Additional Notes

CORAL REEF
BIODIVERSITY
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY AVAILABLE RADIATION
ARAGONITE SATURATION STATE
SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT THREAT LEVEL
MARINE POLLUTION THREAT LEVEL
OVERFISHING THREAT LEVEL
WATERSHED POLLUTION THREAT LEVEL
INTEGRATED LOCAL THREAT LEVEL

Events

6 Deployments
5 IOPs
2 Significant Events
20172018
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NASA
EVS-2
Hal Maring
Eric Hochberg
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