{"id":11728,"date":"2017-06-09T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2020-10-14T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:37:55","slug":"taking-up-autonomous-reef-monitoring-structures-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2017\/06\/09\/taking-up-autonomous-reef-monitoring-structures-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Up Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"DCIM100GOPROGOPR2741.\"By Amanda Heidt<\/a>, Invertebrate Zoology Lab<\/h3>\n
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It's been a bit...vertebrate-y on the blog lately, so today we're going to hear about one of the ongoing projects of the Invertebrate Zoology lab here at Moss Landing! Our principle investigator, Dr. Jonathan Geller, is a coauthor on a recent paper<\/a> to come out of our collaboration with the Infinite Diversity<\/a> project, whose members include representatives from NOAA, the Smithsonian, San Diego State University, UCLA, and international scientists across Indonesia. With funding provided by the National Science Foundation, the ultimate goal of this project has been twofold: to foster international collaborations among marine scientists and to better understand marine biodiversity along geographic and anthropogenic (human-induced) stress gradients, with specific interest in tropical coral systems.<\/p>\n

A thorough understanding of the ways in which we affect our environment and how these effects might play out under future climatic scenarios is of increasing importance, and it requires a method that is both standardized and tractable over time. So, let me tell you a little story. When I first started imagining this post almost a year ago, I had just spent a month at sea, diving at remote sites to collect field instruments that could then be brought back on board and analyzed. They were essentially stacks of PVC plates, held apart by small plastic spacers, which were anchored to the reef and left to \"marinate\" for years until they became nearly continuous with the reef itself. These pieces of equipment were ARMS (known in longhand as \"Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures\"), and they represent the answer to the question \"How do we provide a systematic, consistent, and comparable method for analyzing biodiversity across broad scales?\"<\/p>\n

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ARMS structure, deployment, and recovery after a few years out on the reef.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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