(Re-posted) After a busy summer, NOAA’s hurricane gliders are returning home
This article has been re-posted from NOAA Research Website – https://research.noaa.gov. NOAA’s hurricane gliders are returning home after a successful journey during the 2020 hurricane season. These gliders were deployed off the coasts of Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern U.S. to collect data for scientists… Read More
Students from the University of Puerto Rico in Bayamón learn about waves and the usefulness of CARICOOS wave products.
During the current academic semester, the University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón Campus offers the Introduction to Oceanography course, taught by Dr. Concepción Rodríguez Fourquet. One of the main topics of the course was waves. Given the invitation made by Dr. Rodríguez, last week, Mr. Adolfo González and Dr. Miguel F. Canals from CARICOOS offered a… Read More
CARICOOS expands its kiosk network to reach new users and promote the use of its products.
Enhancing awareness and appropriate utilization of CARICOOS products and services is an essential part of the CARICOOS mission. To accomplish this goal, CARICOOS offers workshops, one-on-one sessions with users to help them read CARICOOS forecasts, produce video tutorials, among others. Along with these services, CARICOOS recently expanded its information kiosk network to include two new… Read More
Experimental Weekly Sargassum Inundantion Report by NOAA and University of South Florida- Status October 13-19, 2020
Experimental Weekly Sargassum Inundantion Report by NOAA and University of South Florida- Status October 6-12, 2020
COSTAVISPR: A NEW CARIBBEAN REGIONAL OCEAN PARTNERSHIP TOOL TO EXPLORE COASTAL LANDCOVER CHANGES IN PUERTO RICO
CostaVisPR: Vista Aerea de la Transformacion Costera de Puerto Rico (http://www.costavispr.org) is a web-based tool for visualization of changes in coastal areas. This viewer integrates aerial photographs from 1930, 1950, 1994, 2010, 2017 and 2019 and allows exploration of changes in land cover, which can be related to natural and anthropogenic processes such as hurricanes, sea level… Read More
Outlook of 2020 Sargassum blooms in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico* September 30th, 2020, by the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab
In September 2020, the overall Sargassum amount further decreased across most of the central Atlantic. Moderate amount was still observed in the Central West Atlantic and most of the eastern Caribbean Sea.
Experimental Weekly Sargassum Inundantion Report by NOAA and University of South Florida- Status September 15-21, 2020
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SARGASSUM inundation, anoxia and increased acidification
Sargassum inundation of recreational beaches has proved to become a persistent problem with a significant impact on the tourism industry and a challenge to entities managing the issue. In a previous news piece, CARICOOS reported evidence provided by satellite data that indicates it has also caused significant damage to mangroves and seagrasses. CARICOOS is also… Read More
