Virtual Field Trip to the Carbonate Sediments of the Florida Keys

Links and further reading

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Contents The Keys Florida Bay The Everglades Florida (general) Reefs Organisms Field trip home page

This list aims to cover a broad range of material related to the virtual field trip: environmental science, ecology, geology, human impact...

Links which are specific to numbered localities on this virtual field trip will be found on the individual locality pages.

Florida Keys

• Florida Keys virtual tour from USGS
• Benthic Habitats of the Florida Keys - mapping/GIS project. This site contains detailed benthic habitat maps of the whole of the Keys, and more detailed maps of parts of the Marine Sanctuary. Maps may be viewed on screen, or downloaded as digital data for manipulation in GIS systems.
• Geologic History of Florida Reefs: Many Unanswered Questions Authoritative account from USGS/NOAA
• A Giant Sediment Trap in the Florida Keys. This online article by Shinn and others describes large-scale palaeokarstic features filled with modern carbonate sediment.
• NOAA Coral Kingdom photo gallery
• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA)
  • sea grasses
  • coral reefs
• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection)
  • coral reefs
  • mangroves
  • seagrass meadows
• Reef Relief (including virtual dives)
  • Map of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
• Keys Geology
• Key West hydrogeology
• Brief history and geography of the Keys
• Geology of Dry Tortugas National Park
• Fossil binding in modern and ancient reefs. Includes case study of the Key Largo limestone
• Aquarius underwater ocean laboratory located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
• Islamorada dive site pictures
• Official tourism site
• Florida Keys Carrying Capacity Study Ecosystems Workshop - US Army Corps of Engineers

Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay

• Florida Bay virtual tour from USGS
• Biscayne Bay virtual tour from USGS
• Biscayne National Park Online
• Florida Bay research at NOAA
• Florida Bay Sediment Geochemical Data
• South Florida Ecosystem History Project (Biscayne Bay)
• South Florida Ecosystem History Project (Florida Bay)
• Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Program (from NOAA)
• Southern Florida Estuaries and Bays from USGS
• Ecosystem History of South Florida: Biscayne Bay Sediment Core Descriptions

Everglades

• Everglades National Park
  • Ecosystem and Geology
  • Habitats
  • Geology Field Notes
  • from American Park Network
• South Florida Natural Resources Center (SFNRC)
• Everglades Digital Library
• Surface Rock in the Lower Everglades
• Everglades Virtual Tour from USGS
• Everglades exhibit - Historical Museum of Southern Florida
• South Florida Ecosystem History Project (Everglades)
• Sea level control on stability of Everglades wetlands
• Protecting the Everglades Ecosystem - USGS summary
• Everglades restoration site
• Controlling the Waters
• Water Management

Florida (general)

• Florida State Parks
• Florida Geological Survey
• South Florida Satellite Image Map
• Geological Map of Florida
• South Florida Virtual Tours
  • South Florida Ecosystems Virtual Tour
• Common Florida Natural Areas - the natural history in a nutshell
  • Everglades
  • Mangrove swamps
  • Flatwoods or Pinelands
  • Freshwater swamps
  • Hardwood hammocks
• International Sedimentology Workshop in S Florida
• The Biscayne Aquifer
• Biscayne Aquifer
• Areas of Florida That Could Be Inundated by Sea-Level Rise
• Active tropical storms in the USA
• Effects of Hurricane Andrew (1992) on Wetlands in Southern Florida and Louisiana
• Climate worries surface in Florida BBC
• Marine damage off Fla. tied to mysterious black water - Boston Globe
• Black Water off the Gulf Coast of Florida - NASA
• Reefbase: United States data, images, resources, threats...

Reefs and related carbonate environments (general)

• Coral Reefs. Hooper Museum, Canada
• Reefs chapter, by N.P. James, from Walker's Facies Models (1984 edition).
• Reef Education Network
• Coral collapse in Caribbean. Mass die-off of coral due to climate change?
• Carbonates: Environments. Part of online course from University of British Columbia
• Coral Reef Ecology. University of Charleston, South Carolina
• Reefs of the Gulf [of Mexico] - a Submarine Grand Tour
• Jurassic Reef Park. With much on modern reefs, too, from Palaeontology and Geobiology Munich and the Paläontologische Gesellschaft
• Bermuda Reefs and reef organisms
• Coral Reef Research in Bermuda
• Tropical marine ecology images: Florida, Bahamas
• Remote sensing of coral reefs
• Ocean upwelling
• Looking at upwelling
• NOAA Coral Health & Monitoring Program
• Coral Reef Protection - US Environmental Protection Agency
• Satellite Coral Bleaching Monitoring
• Tourism and Coastal Resources Degradation in the Wider Caribbean

Organisms

• Zooxanthellate Corals home page
• Introduction to coralline red algae
• Home of Fossil Coralline Algae
• Hawaiian Reef Algae

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