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Coral calcifying fluid aragonite saturation states derived from Raman spectroscopy
Thomas M. DeCarlo
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Oceans Institute and School of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
Juan P. D'Olivo
Oceans Institute and School of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
Taryn Foster
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Crawley 6009, Australia
Michael Holcomb
Oceans Institute and School of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
Thomas Becker
Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia
Department of Chemistry, Curtin Institute of Functional Molecules and Interfaces, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth 6845, Australia
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Oceans Institute and School of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Australia
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We present CoralCache, a virtual coral core repository with global coverage. This repository fills a key gap by enabling researchers to transparently archive and share the raw core image datasets and the visual interpretations of those images, rather than simply the summarized growth rate data, which on their own cannot be traced or precisely reproduced. CoralCache is designed to meet the data-sharing principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR).
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We present a new technique to quantify the chemical conditions under which corals build their skeletons by analysing them with lasers at a very fine resolution, down to 1/100th the width of a human hair. Our first applications to laboratory-cultured and wild corals demonstrates the complex interplay among seawater conditions (temperature and acidity), calcifying fluid chemistry, and bulk skeleton accretion, which will define the sensitivity of coral calcification to 21st century climate change.
We present a new technique to quantify the chemical conditions under which corals build their...
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