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New Study Shows Elevated Sediment Pollution Levels in Guánica Bay ...
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A new study from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) reports recent sediment samples from Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico contained some ...
Benthic Habitat Mapping in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for ...
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In Puerto Rico, we mapped 721 km 2 of submerged vegetation, 756 km 2 of coral reef and colonized hardbottom, 49 m 2 of unconsolidated sediment, and 73 ...
NCCOS | Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
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Below are printable maps of benthic habitats for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The maps are divided into three indices: Puerto Rico, St ...
Contaminants in Marine Resources of Vieques, Puerto Rico
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Vieques is an island municipality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, located 11 km off the east coast of the main island. In addition to normal ...
NCCOS | Southwest Puerto Rico - National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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This project began in January 2010 and was completed in December 2012. We mapped the shallow-water benthic habitats of two areas off southwest Puerto ...
Owner of Puerto Rico Superfund Site Agrees to Contamination Clean Up
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The Ochoa Fertilizer Company site in Guánica, Puerto Rico, consists of two parcels totaling 125 acres adjacent to Guánica Bay. Ammonia, ammonium ...
Shallow-water Benthic Habitat Mapping of Northeast Puerto Rico and ...
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We developed a map of benthic habitat types, including live coral cover present off northeast Puerto Rico and Culebra Island, a region selected by ...
An Assessment of Chemical Contaminants in Sediment and Corals in ...
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The results of this study are contained in An Assessment of Chemical Contaminants in the Marine Sediments of Southwest Puerto Rico, and Chemical ...
Coastal Development Impacts Puerto Rico’s Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems
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The narrow insular shelf off Ponce, Puerto Rico’s second most populated municipality, makes deep-water dredge disposal for the commercial port and ...
Bioeffects Program Reports: Gulf of Mexico and Puerto Rico
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The Bioeffects program is a nationwide program of environmental assessment designed to describe the current status of environmental quality in our ...
Social-ecological System of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
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A new study describes the social-ecological system of La Parguera, Puerto Rico, and identifies the different pressures that have changed this system ...
Findings Published from Second Coral Reef Socioeconomic Monitoring ...
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The report outlines current human dimensions information relevant to coral reef resources in Puerto Rico, as well as trends between the first (2015) ...
Baseline Assessment of Contaminants and Ecological Resources in Jobos ...
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Jobos Bay is Puerto Rico’s second largest estuary and home of the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bay has a variety of important ...
First Compendium on Deep-water Algae of Puerto Rico Published
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Credit: Smithsonian Institution and the University of Puerto Rico. The report summarizes over 30 years of algal collections using deep-water ...
An Ecological Characterization of the Marine Resources of Vieques ...
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From 1941 to 2003, the U.S. Navy conducted live bombing exercises on the eastern side of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. As the Navy phased out ...
Mapping Ecological Priorities and Human Impacts to Support Land-Sea ...
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This report describes a spatial characterization conducted to support the development of an integrated management plan for Puerto Rico’s Northeast ...
The Mesophotic, Coral Reef-Associated, Marine Algal Flora of Puerto ...
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Deepwater open-circuit scuba, dredging, submersible, and technical mixed-gas (closed-circuit) rebreather diving collections of marine benthic algae ...
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef fish ...
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In 2014 the Belt Transect method was used to conduct fish surveys in Puerto Rico as part of the ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program ...
Conservation Opportunity: Demobilized Bombing Range, Island of Vieques ...
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Coastal development and overfishing degraded many of Puerto Rico’s spectacular marine resources. Although the bombing activities inevitably damaged ...
Acoustic Monitoring Reveals Hurricane Maria's Impact on Puerto Rico’s ...
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Passive listening devices placed on Puerto Rico’s coral reefs recorded how Hurricane Maria disturbed marine life. The hydrophones recorded the ...