Spatial Data Recovery and Resilience of Oyster Reefs in the Big Bend of Florida

Project: Recovery and Resilience of Oyster Reefs in the Big Bend of Florida

https://wec.ifas.ufl.edu/oysterproject/

Lone Cabbage Reef Restoration Spatial Data (2017-2023) Repository:

https://zenodo.org/communities/lonecabbagereef

Contact: Joe Aufmuth, University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries, Academic Research and Consulting Services Department, mapper@ufl.edu, (352) 273-0371.

Clarifying Publication: Aufmuth, Moore, Pine, and Ennis (2024 in progress), An Oyster’s Pearl: Restoring the Elevation of Lone Cabbage Reef, Florida.

The repository contains ArcGIS Map Packages (v3.2.0) that are listed in the repository file Descriptions_Lone_Cabbage_Reef_map_package_list_xls. 

Purpose: Data collected varies in scale as well as positional and attribute accuracy.  It is the responsibility of the user to verify that the data are appropriate for their project.  No warranties or guarantees are made that the data are appropriate for uses other than the Recovery and Resilience of Oyster Reefs in the Big Bend of Florida project.

Data Collection:  Elevation data was collected through professional certified surveyors (Lone Cabbage Reef 2017, 2018, and 2021) as well as through field data collection efforts using Trimble survey grade GPS equipment (University of Florida 2019).  Oyster count data locations were collected through field efforts and mapped to field transects using Juniper GPS survey equipment (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).  Other spatial data layers included in this data set are credited in the layouts that produce the individual maps in the map packages.