Research

CARICOOS SUPPORTS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY EFFORT AIMED TO DEVELOP AN AIR QUALITY WARNING SYSTEM

A multidisciplinary team of universities, agencies and non-governmental organizations located in the Caribbean region and led by UPR-Medical Sciences (PI: Pablo Méndez-Lázaro), UPR-Río Piedras, University of South Florida, ACAR and PR-CLIMAH scientists are characterizing the periodic transatlantic dispersal of the Sahara dust and its impacts on the health of the people in Puerto Rico using Earth observation data from… Read More

CARICOOS RELEASES A NEW VERSION OF THE BEACH WATER QUALITY PRODUCT

CARICOOS Beach Water Quality product now includes an interactive tool to assess historical data at each sampling site. The beach water quality map serves results of the latest Enterococci samples collected by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, Surfrider Foundation and Blue Flag. The product also includes experimental nowcasts providing probability of EPA threshold exceedances for… Read More

2021 TROPICAL HURRICANE GLIDER MISSION IS UNDERWAY!

CARICOOS, with support from NOAA-Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), successfully deployed five (5) underwater gliders in mid-June 2021, four owned by NOAA-AOML and one by CARICOOS. Of those, three were deployed in the Caribbean Sea and two in the Atlantic Ocean. These underwater gliders will continually gather temperature and salinity profiles up to 1000… Read More

College graduate publishes his study of the Bioluminescent Bay of La Parguera in a prestigious scientific journal

Previously published by RUM Press By Ídem Osorio De Jesús ( idem.osorio@upr.edu ) Friday, May 7, 2021, Erick Manuel García Troche, a graduate of the Mayagüez Campus (RUM) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), managed to share the findings of his research on the Bioluminescent Bay of La Parguera through the publication of his article… Read More