27 October 2015
This picture could have been the start of a new hype. Romantic camping for divers. However, it is our little coral world, a so called mesocosm, in which we measure everything that is going on (see blog Fleur van Duyl).Scientists from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research have worked night and day to get everything ready and working. Now we are here on the Saba Bank hoping for suitable weather. As it is we had to go to Saba Where we are trying our different mesocosms out. We have one big tent and two small ones and by measuring the chemistry of the water we can deduce how the little world under the tent is functioning. This will give us data that will help to understand how coral reefs function and how we can better protect them from pollution and the negative effects of climate change.
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