Natural Coastal Barriers At Risk

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• Alternative Title:
  NOAA Sea Grant Newsletter, Postcard from the Field
• Personal Author:
  Melendez, Melissa ; Garcia-Troche, Erick ; Salisbury, Joseph E. ; Morell, Julio M. ; Rodriguez, Sylvia ; Hunt, Christopher W. ; Emond, Marc
• Corporate Authors:
  University of Puerto Rico (Mayagüez Campus). Sea Grant College Program. ; University of New Hampshire. Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Sea Grant ; CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
• Sea Grant Program:
  PRU (Puerto Rico Sea Grant)
• Description:
  To better understand how ocean acidification affects coral reef systems, a suite of observations from the NOAA moored autonomous pCO2 buoy (MapCO2) in La Parguera Marine Reserve in combination with long-track (underway) oceanographic measurements of near-shore surface water were analyzed and collected. This research is part of a new project to identify coral reefs that are at risk of dissolving. The long-term goal of this initiative is to aid in the development of early warning and management policies on small tropical islands.
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/ds4p-kz87
• Format:
  PDF
• Document Type:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  Puerto Rico
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b5bafb700343d01ace06749b2cf4d8cf812e71c0c1d09ee16de6a07558b412f7
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/56566/noaa_56566_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.37 MB ]