December 31, 2012, Guam, posted by Roxanna Miller
Adios 2012!
This year has sure flown by! And in that time we’ve been able to get a
lot of work done with the monitoring program. Between acquiring all the
equipment needed for fieldwork (SCUBA tanks, boat charter, new dive
gear, and underwater camera equipment) and the survey
training/calibration exercises, it was a couple of months before the
fieldwork could start in July.
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| Guam volunteers clean up reef. Photo Dave Burdick |
But once all the office
work was done, we were more than ready to get in the water! In addition
to setting up a new monitoring site in Piti Bay, we were able to collect
a second year of benthic data from all of Tumon’s stations and also
from all permanent stations at East Agana Bay. Since we now have two
years of data from Tumon and East Agana Bay, we can make comparisons
between these years to determine the latest status and trends of the
health of these reef areas. And with the addition of data from
subsequent years, we will have an even better understanding of the
processes acting on and affecting Guam’s reefs.
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