Monday, November 25, 2013

Welcome to the Maintenance Log for the ARTO1 CREWS station!

This station was installed on November 25th, 2013. It is an anchored buoy located off the northeast coast of Tobago not far from Speyside, and is owned and operated by Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC or 5Cs) in collaboration with the Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS). CREWS handles the data stream and ecoforecasting for this station, and operates out of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML).

We are informally referring to the buoy as ARTO1 (Angel's Reef, Tobago the 1st) although the National Weather Service in the US will also be giving it an all-numeric buoy designation.

For more information about CCCCC, please visit its website at this location:  http://www.caribbeanclimate.bz/

The new buoy's exact coordinates are
N 11.301°
W 60.521°