Moorea Coral Reef Water Quality Measurements

Moorea, French Polynesia, hosts this dataset of water quality measurements from the Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site (MCR LTER). The data is managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. One platform indicates a last update in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in ocean temperature for coral health studies.
• Investigating relationships between salinity and reef biodiversity.
• Studying changes in ocean optics, such as light penetration, over time.
• Correlating ocean chemistry parameters with ecological events.

Strengths

• Data is part of a formal Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site, indicating structured collection.
• Cross-platform presence on Data.gov and NASA Earthdata signals importance and curation.
• Specific tags indicate measurements for ocean chemistry, optics, temperature, and salinity.

Limitations

• No column names, row counts, or file sizes are provided by any source, limiting technical assessment.
• Sources disagree on license details; one specifies 'other-license-specified', another provides no license.
• The temporal range of the measurements is not specified.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Field measurements taken near the island of Moorea as part of the MCR LTER program.

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-03-12 23:34:29.292404

Geography

Near the island of Moorea, French Polynesia.