Estación de Investigaciones
Marinas de Margarita
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Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Estación de Investigaciones Marinas de Margarita,
Isla de Margarita, Venezuela
Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales is a non-profit organization dedicated to educate technicians,
develop scientific research related with the social and natural sciences and to provide communities with the necessary
tools for sustainable development. EDIMAR (Estación de Investigaciones Marinas de Margarita, Venezuela) was
established in 1958 for fisheries research and resource evaluation, but soon it expanded to explore all branches
of oceanography: physical, chemical, geological and biological. EDIMAR now draws on the expertise of a group of
researchers specialized in the different branches of oceanography, and has several assets, such as the R/V Hno.
Ginés, used in oceanographic research, and the Paraguachoa, a fisheries vessel used by the fisheries
students in their training.
INTECMAR/Universidad
Simón Bolívar
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INTECMAR/Universidad Simón Bolívar
INTECMAR (Instituto de Tecnología y Ciencias Marinas) is one of the research groups that constitute
the Biological Sciences Division of the University Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela. Their mission
is to carry out high quality Marine Sciences research in the coastal areas of Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea using
their extensively trained and diverse staff. The results of their research provide explanations or solutions to
specific problems affecting the private or public sector and promote the understanding and conservation of the
aquatic environment.
CPDI/Fundación
Instituto de Ingeniería
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CPDI/Fundación Instituto de Ingeniería
The Center for Digital Image Processing (CPDI) is part of the Fundacion Instituto de Ingenieria (FII),
located in Caracas, Venezuela. CPDI is a multidisciplinary research center that provides engineering and
scientific support to the public and private sector utilizing remote sensing images, GIS and digital cartography.
They are a direct downlink station for NOAA and SeaWiFS images, and regularly use other satellites such as Landsat,
SPOT, ERS-1 and RADARSAT-1 in their projects. Their remote sensing products are applied to both society and
environment, in the areas of natural resources inventory, urban planning, applied geology and geomorphology,
pollution and oceanography.
Núcleo Sucre and
Nueva Esparta
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Universidad de Oriente, Núcleo Sucre and Nueva Esparta,
Cumana and Margarita, Venezuela
Two of the Universidad de Oriente's branches, located in Cumana (Núcleo Sucre, B. Marin) and Margarita Island
(Núcleo Nueva Esparta, L. Troccoli), Venezuela, are currently participating in the CARIACO project. Their research
focuses on marine and freshwater ecosystems, specializing in marine biology, fisheries, phytoplankton taxonomy and oceanography.
Through their projects they provide the public and private sector information necessary to elaborate optimal policies for
the sustainable development of littoral areas. Their research also focuses on the recovery of damaged marine environments due to
overexploitation and misuse.
Institute for
Marine Remote Sensing
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Institute for Marine Remote Sensing
The Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS) is part of the College of Marine Science, University of South
Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida. Their research activities focus on the analysis of digital data obtained by
satellite and airborne sensors, and on the development of applications of these data at local, regional, and global
scales. The main objective is to provide a better understanding of the world oceans on a large spatial and temporal
scale. They specialize in coastal processes of highly variable regions like the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea
and Cuba using instruments such as AVHRR, CZCS, SeaWiFS, MODIS, and Landsat.
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Oceanic Nutrient Laboratory
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Oceanic Nutrient Laboratory
The Oceanic Nutrient Laboratory is part of the College of Marine Science, University of South Florida,
in St. Petersburg, Florida. They specialize in nutrient analysis in the upper portion of the ocean, focusing
on nitrate, nitrite, and ammonia, and pursuing the question whether ammonia in the surface ocean can, in effect,
serve as a water mass tracer. The Oceanic Nutrient Laboratory is a fully equipped chemistry laboratory for
standard nutrient analyses using ASTORIA-PACIFIC 305D Analyzer (4 channels)-or Technicon-Autoanalyzer-II
segmented-flow (5 channels) analyzers.
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Ocean Circulation Group
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Ocean Circulation Group
The Ocean Circulation Group (OCG) is part of the College of Marine Science, University of South Florida in
St. Petersburg, FL. They main research focuses on ocean circulation through a combination of observations and models.
Present applications are primarily on the west Florida continental shelf (WFS), where they maintain a coordinated
observing and modeling system. OCG also collaborates on analyses of satellite remotely sensed data for generating
fields of ocean circulation related variables. Other active projects include collaborative studies of the Cariaco
Basin, the tropical Atlantic, and the Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor, and Rookery Bay estuaries, including hurricane
storm surge analyses. They are part of the COMPS (Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System), SEACOOS
(Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System), SECOORA (Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association),
and GCOOS (Gulf of Mexico Ocean Observing System) Programs.
Department of
Geological Sciences
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University of South Carolina, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, SC
The Department of Geological Sciences at the University of South Carolina is composed of a group of highly
regarded research scientists and outstanding programs that comprise a diverse range of related disciplines.
Among these are: Environmental Geosciences, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Global Climate Change, Hydrocarbon exploration,
Marine Sciences, Oceanography, Petrology, Satellite Geodesy, Sedimentology, Seismology, Structural Geology and
Tectonics. They focus on three primary research areas: Evolution of Orogenic Systems, Environmental Geosciences,
and Global Climate Change. The Department utilizes the latest hardware and software to work in these disciplines.
Marine Sciences
Research Center
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State University of New York, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook, NY
The Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC) is the State University of New York's center for marine and
atmospheric research, education, and public service. The Center focuses on coastal oceanographic processes and
atmospheric sciences in a natural and academic setting that offers abundant opportunities for conducting field
work and solving real problems in both local and distant locations. The primary focus of the MSRC faculty and
students is on fundamental research designed to increase understanding of the processes that characterize the
coastal ocean and the atmosphere. The Marine Sciences Research Center is also committed in applying their research
to solve problems that result from society's uses and misuses of the environment.
Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory
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Department of
Geological Sciences
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School of Physical Sciences
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Department of Earth Sciences
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Instituto de Zoología
Tropical
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Laboratorio de Microbiología
Acuática
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Marine Chemistry &
Geochemistry Department
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Rosenstiel School
of Marine and
Atmospheric Science
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Department of Marine
Sciences
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Institut für
Geowissenschaften
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Department of Biology
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EAPS Department
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Department of Biology
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Department of
Oceanography
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College of Marine Science
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Department of
Geology
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College of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Sciences
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Marine Geology &
Geophysics Department
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