La Parguera

La Parguera Mooring (17.95°N, 67.05°W).

La Parguera is located on the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico in the municipality of Lajas. The La Parguera Natural Reserve includes all the coastline of the municipality of Lajas extending 1 km towards land from the shore and 9 nautical miles offshore. Marine and coastal ecosystem including: mangroves, seagrass, reefs, bays and salt marshes. 

A MAPCO2 system was deployed within the La Parguera Natural Reserve on the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico on January 16, 2009 to complement the Integrated Coral Observing Network (ICON) measurements at this location. The goal is to establish as a test bed for monitoring ocean acidification in sensitive coral reef environments through a joint effort between PMEL, AOML and NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program. Local support for the mooring was initially provided by the Caribbean Coral Reef Institute; subsequently by CariCOOS (the NOAA IOOS Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System) and throughout the deployment by the University of Puerto Rico, Department of Marine Sciences. Deployment and maintenance of the buoy would have been difficult without this support.

Visit the La Parguera blogspot to learn more about the deployment and maintenance of the MAPCO2 buoy at this location.

Finalized Data availability: contact Adrienne Sutton.

Plots of surface water and atmospheric CO2:

Plot of CO2 at La Parguera from the last 30 days Plot of delta pCO2 and O2 data for the last 30 days at La Parguera Plot of CO2 at La Parguera for the full data set Plot of delta pCO2 and O2 data for the full data set at La Parguera
Data are unverified
Plot of CO2 data at La Parguera from the last 30 days