[Coral-List] New CREWS Stations for the Caribbean

[Jim Hendee]

Greetings,

I wanted to alert researchers and students in the Caribbean that four new Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS) stations are being deployed this year in Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, the Bahamas, and Belize, by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, in association with the Saba Conservation Foundation. We anticipate that the existing stations in Antigua & Barbuda, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Grenada and St. Kitts & Nevis will be refurbished and instruments re-calibrated in the coming two years.

CREWS stations were initially developed at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, in association with many collaborators, but in the Caribbean especially the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center in Belize, and the CREWS host nations. The stations collect and transmit meteorological and oceanographic data at important coral reef areas in near real-time. More information will be forthcoming in the coming year.

NOAA/AOML/OCED: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ocean-chemistry-ecosystems-division/
Caribbean Community Climate Change Center: https://www.caribbeanclimate.bz/
Saba Conservation Foundation: http://www.sabapark.org/

Cheers,
Jim

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