[Coral-List] Coral bleaching warning in Discovery Bay

[Thomas Goreau]

Hmm, that must progress, but we figured how to predict bleaching in  
Discovery Bay using a cheap mercury thermometer back in 1989:

T. J. Goreau, 1990, Coral bleaching in Jamaica, NATURE, 343: 417

Thomas J. Goreau, PhD
President
Global Coral Reef Alliance
37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge MA 021
617-864-4226
goreau at bestweb.net
http://www.globalcoral.org


> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:43:08 -0400
> From: Jim Hendee <jim.hendee at noaa.gov>
> Subject: [Coral-List] Discovery Bay, Jamaica ICON/CREWS Station
> 	Installed
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> Greetings!
>
>     We are very pleased to announce that as of 10:00am local time,  
> June
> 7, 2007, a new NOAA/AOML CREWS (Coral Reef Early Warning System)  
> station
> at West Fore Reef,  Discovery Bay, Jamaica (latitude 18.4727,  
> longitude
> -77.4158), began transmitting data.  CREWS stations are part of the
> Integrated Coral Observing Network (ICON) of in situ and virtual
> environmental monitoring stations/sites (currently over 120).  The
> Discovery Bay data are available here,
>
>     http://www.coral.noaa.gov/crw/crw_data_dbjm1_Web_12.html
>
> and, with more information, here,
>
>     http://ecoforecast.coral.noaa.gov/index/0/DBJM1/station-home
>
> The latter site includes data from the station, as well as data
> integrated from satellite sources and the HYCOM model.  The site also
> includes beginning constructs for coral bleaching at this site, but  
> will
> undergo further refinement in cooperation with personnel from  
> University
> of the West Indies, Centre for Marine Sciences, Discovery Bay Marine
> Laboratory (DBML), who have bleaching data from shallow to 120' for  
> many
> years.  Other ecoforecasts will undergo refinement later this summer.
>
>     Instruments at this site include those for measuring air
> temperature, winds (speed, gusts, direction), barometric pressure,
> precipitation (intensity, amount, duration), light (PAR, 305, 330, 380
> nm) above and below the water (two depths), sea temperature, salinity,
> and pCO2.  Satellite data acquired for this site include measurements
> for sea temperature (two sources) and wind speed.  Model data from  
> HYCOM
> include sea temperature, salinity and winds.
>
>     For those who are interested in the logistics of this  
> undertaking, a
> blog detailing installation of the station at the site can be seen  
> here,
>
>     http://dbjm1-log.blogspot.com/
>
>     This project has been supported through the MACC project,
>
>
> http://www.caricom.org/jsp/projects/macc%20project/macc.jsp? 
> menu=projects
>
> the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre,
>
>     http://www.caribbeanclimate.bz/news.php
>
> World Bank/GEF, CARICOM, the University of the West Indies, and NOAA.
> Many other partners have also been extremely helpful in this project,
> including especially personnel from the University of Miami/Rosenstiel
> School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
>
>     Cheers,
>     The ICON/CREWS Team
>
>
>
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