The MCR-LTER site Data Catalog has moved. To access, view, or download publicly available MCR data packages, please visit the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) Data Portal and search for "MCR LTER". Some biological and physical oceanographic data collected by MCR LTER site researchers also are deposited with the Biological and Chemical Oceanographic Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)

Use of all MCR-LTER public data requires acceptance of the MCR-LTER Data Use Policy.

Quick links to ongoing, MCR Core time series data sets

Nutrients

• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Macroalgal CHN, ongoing since 2005

Primary Production

• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Rates of benthic coral reef community metabolism, ongoing since 2007
• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Benthic Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR), ongoing since 2009

Benthic Algae

• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Benthic Algae and Other Community Components, ongoing since 2005

Coral

• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Corals Annual Survey, ongoing since 2005
• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Backreef (Lagoon) Corals Annual Survey, ongoing since 2005
• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Coral Recruitment, ongoing since 2005
• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Juvenile Coral Density, ongoing since 2005
• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Annual Island Wide Coral Demography Survey, ongoing since 2011

Other Benthic Invertebrates

• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population Dynamics of Crown-of-Thorns-Seastars (Acanthaster planci), ongoing since 2005
• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Other Benthic Invertebrates, ongoing since 2005

Fishes

• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Population and Community Dynamics: Fishes, ongoing since 2005

Meteorological

• MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Gump Station Meteorological Data, ongoing since 2006

Physical Oceanographic

• MCR LTER: Ocean Currents and Biogeochemistry: salinity, temperature and current at CTD and ADCP mooring FOR01, ongoing since 2004
• MCR LTER: Ocean Currents and Biogeochemistry: salinity, temperature and current at CTD and ADCP mooring FOR04, ongoing since 2004
• MCR LTER: Ocean Currents and Biogeochemistry: salinity, temperature and current at CTD and ADCP mooring FOR05, ongoing since 2004
• MCR LTER: Benthic Water Temperature, ongoing since 2005
• MCR LTER: Island-Wide Lagoon Benthic Water Temperature, ongoing since 2021

Collaborative Time-series & GeoSpatial Datasets

• LTREB Caribbean site: Edmunds coral coverage time series on St. John, USVI from 1987 to present