CREWS Station Installed

Biota From the CREWS Station Area

Views of the coral ecosystem in the area of the installation.

Installing the Mooring Pins

With a lot of local help, John Halas arranges equipment as he readies the installation of the mooring U-pin.

John and Judy Halas of EMI prepare the mooring pin equipment.

 John Halas and the locals go to work.

Finding the right spot

Finding the spot at Kahonae during the site survey.  Photo by Pamela Fletcher.

Meeting with Permanent Secretary

The local hosts and the CREWS Team.

Discussions on Location for the CREWS station

Discussions about where to put the CREWS station.

Welcome to the Maintenance Log for the KRGN1 CREWS station!

(Update by Jim Hendee)

The station is in the process of being installed June 11th - 22nd. It will be an anchored buoy located near the southwest coast of Genada, and is owned and operated the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC or 5Cs) in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS).  CREWS handles the data stream and ecoforecasting for this station, and operates out of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML).

We are informally referring to the buoy as KRGN1 (Kahonae Reef, Grenada the 1st).

The new buoy will be located at or near these coordinates:

N 12° 01.3650'

W 61° 47.4590'