The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) awarded YSI Integrated Systems and Services (a division of Xylem Inc.) a contract for five marine monitoring buoys that will collect high-quality data for researchers studying climate change in the Caribbean Sea, including the waters of Barbados, Belize, The Dominican Republic and Trinidad & Tobago.
The customized YSI EMM 2000 buoys measure, record, and transmit in real-time meteorological and water quality data as the key components of a Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS).
The CREWS buoy system will contain EXO2 water quality sondes; SonTek Argonaut XR current Doppler profiler; meteorological sensors and cellular or GOES satellite telemetry. The stations will take long-term measurements of sea temperature, depth, salinity, algae, turbidity, dissolved organic matter, as well as wave velocity and weather data. Data acquisition systems on the buoys will gather and transmit the data. Solar panels will power the entire system.
Photos courtesy of Jonathan Fajans, President of Consulting for All Reef Monitoring Services (C-ARMS, Inc.)
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The customized YSI EMM 2000 buoys measure, record, and transmit in real-time meteorological and water quality data as the key components of a Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS).
The CREWS buoy system will contain EXO2 water quality sondes; SonTek Argonaut XR current Doppler profiler; meteorological sensors and cellular or GOES satellite telemetry. The stations will take long-term measurements of sea temperature, depth, salinity, algae, turbidity, dissolved organic matter, as well as wave velocity and weather data. Data acquisition systems on the buoys will gather and transmit the data. Solar panels will power the entire system.
Photos courtesy of Jonathan Fajans, President of Consulting for All Reef Monitoring Services (C-ARMS, Inc.)
sontek.com/argonaut-xr
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