Senior Policy Advisor
Department of Environment & Nature (MINA)
Ministry of Public Health & Social Development (VSO)
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message from the desk of Paul Hoetjes.
Various messages on the coral list are indicating that water temperatures are rising rapidly and that it may be a very hot season.
Reports indicate that upwelling in the southern Caribbean is inhibited by the recent anomalous lack in trade winds, and that the gulfstream this past winter has been very weak and a large body of warm surfacewaters is located east through northeast of the lesser Antilles.
Consequently we may face a potentially very serious bleaching event in the Caribbean.
Please keep an eye on the developments on the reefs around your islands.
The NOAA/NESDIS hotspot chart indicates a developing hotspot in the area of both the lesser Antilles and of the leeward islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao (see below).
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/hotspotwnc.gif
Paul C. Hoetjes
Senior Policy Advisor
Department of Environment & Nature (MINA)
Ministry of Public Health & Social Development (VSO)
| Lion Fish Info | youtube treathened reef | stop reef damage | Coastguard & Reefguard | Reef Clean up day 2005 | Eyes to the sea | monitoring April 2006 | Monitoring November 2006 | Coral Spawning 2002 | Reef Conference 2002 | Oil spill | Seru Domi children projec | Dolpins abuse | Kids Carnival 2005 | Annual Report 2002 | Petition on St Lucia | Coral, Vital for Live | Turtle slaugter 2007 | Reefs Report 2003 | Coral Fashion | Coral Garden | Lecture September11, 2003 | Exposition Awareness N&E | RCC is a GIN partner | Lecture June17, 2004 | Ron and the Dragon | annual report 2003 | lectures on schools | Reef Awareness | strong coral bleaching | bleaching hotspots 2005 | fisherman and awareness | Schoolteachers conference |
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