The Caribbean Salinity Experiment (CASE) is intended to reconstruct long-term historical salinity and temperature profiles
from coral skeletons along with records of coral extension, density, and calcification over a 15 degree latitudinal range of the
Caribbean. This range is equivalent to the length of the Great Barrier Reef and is an unprecedented survey of the Caribbean.
This information will enable testing of various coral growth models and allow historical tracking of water circulation and
inputs from the sub-tropical Atlantic Gyre, cross equatorial thermohaline transport, and the temporal/spatial extent of the
Western Hemisphere Warm Pool (WHWP) in the Caribbean.
Researchers from Nova Southeastern University (NSU), the University of Miami, and the University of South Florida participated
in a 52 day cruise to collect coral cores from the Windward and Leeward Islands in the Caribbean: St. Thomas, St. Croix,
Barbuda, Antigua, St. Marten, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent/Grenadines.
The NCRI / NSU coral drilling contingent consisted of Kevin Helmle, Pat Quinn, Dave Gilliam, Ryan Moyer, and Heather Halter.
This collection effort was a collaboration between the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI), Dr. Richard E. Dodge; the National
Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE) and the Stable Isotope Laboratory at RSMAS (SIL), Dr. Peter Swart; and the
Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO)/USF, Dr. Terry Quinn.
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The Caribbean Salinity Experiment (CASE) is intended to reconstruct long-term historical salinity and temperature profiles
from coral skeletons along with records of coral extension, density, and calcification over a 15 degree latitudinal range of the
Caribbean. This range is equivalent to the length of the Great Barrier Reef and is an unprecedented survey of the Caribbean.
This information will enable testing of various coral growth models and allow historical tracking of water circulation and
inputs from the sub-tropical Atlantic Gyre, cross equatorial thermohaline transport, and the temporal/spatial extent of the
Western Hemisphere Warm Pool (WHWP) in the Caribbean.
Researchers from Nova Southeastern University (NSU), the University of Miami, and the University of South Florida participated
in a 52 day cruise to collect coral cores from the Windward and Leeward Islands in the Caribbean: St. Thomas, St. Croix,
Barbuda, Antigua, St. Marten, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent/Grenadines.
The NCRI / NSU coral drilling contingent consisted of Kevin Helmle, Pat Quinn, Dave Gilliam, Ryan Moyer, and Heather Halter.
This collection effort was a collaboration between the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI), Dr. Richard E. Dodge; the National
Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research (NCORE) and the Stable Isotope Laboratory at RSMAS (SIL), Dr. Peter Swart; and the
Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO)/USF, Dr. Terry Quinn.