{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Ilsa B. Kuffner", "hasEmail": "mailto:ikuffner@usgs.gov"}, "description": "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies (CREST) project (https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/crest/) provides science that helps resource managers tasked with the stewardship of coral reef resources. This data release provides underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes since 2019 at three coral reef locations in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The sites are on the fringing reef of the National Park Service\u2019s Buck Island Reef National Monument: Northwest Reef (NWR), Northeast Reef ('NER', also known as \u2018Scuba Cut\u2019), and South Forereef (SFR) and were the subject of related studies on reefs protecting shorelines published in Kuffner and others (2022) and Toth and others (2023). Measurements were made from June 2019 to October 2024. Temperatures were recorded with Onset\u00ae HOBO\u00ae Water Temp Pro V2 (U22-001) data loggers, in duplicate, at each site. Loggers were attached to concrete blocks fixed to the reef with stainless-steel rods and epoxy at depths of 7 to 13 feet (ft) of seawater.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P14HBYNX", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.10b7289d-885f-4cea-887d-a16179ee854e.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_10b7289d-885f-4cea-887d-a16179ee854e", "keyword": ["Buck Island", "Buck Island Reef National Monument", "Caribbean Sea", "SST", "Saint Croix Island", "USGS:10b7289d-885f-4cea-887d-a16179ee854e", "United States Virgin Islands", "aquatic biology", "coelenterates", "coral bleaching", "coral reef", "environment", "geoscientificInformation", "in situ temperature", "marine geology", "oceans", "reef ecosystems", "sea surface temperature", "underwater temperature"], "modified": "2026-02-09T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-64.62122, 17.78408, -64.61143, 17.79081", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Underwater temperature at Buck Island Reef National Monument coral reefs, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands"}