In 2015 Resinex created a special buoy for a Colombian oceanography project in collaboration with Vansolix.
In 2015 Resinex created a special buoy for a Colombian Oceanography project in cooperation with Vansolix.
Resinex supplied an Oceanographic buoy PEM 18×1200 for 20 m depth built with special features able to support the instruments for measuring wind speed and wind direction, temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, pH, conductivity, salinity, water temperature, chlorophyll.
This project, financed by Banco Interamericano de Desarollo (BID), was designed to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the archipelago of San Andres-Colombia specifically in Bolivar Cay to check the effects of climate change on the marine reserve “Seaflower”.
The Seaflower MPA (Marine Protected Area) is located in the Southwestern Caribbean eco-region and, at this time, is the 7th largest MPAin the world at just over 6,500,000 ha. It includes diverse coastal and marine ecosystems of the Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence and Santa Catalina.
These surveys are very important nowadays to monitor the increase of surface temperature.
These phenomena are linked to the bleaching of corals in the Caribbean and are expected to induce a pole-ward shift of local fisheries. Higher sea surface temperature is already threatening the viability of corals in the western Caribbean, much of it located in the Colombian territorial sea, which constitutes the nursery of an estimated 65% of fish species in the area.
The project development objective is to support Colombia’s efforts to define and implement specific pilot adaptation measures and policy options to meet the anticipated impacts from climate change.
For this reason, Resinex, strong in its experience about the supply of numerous MPAs in the world, has been chosen to provide the Oceanographic buoy guaranteeing a specific ad-hoc support for the weather surveys.
