Board of Advisors

Julio M. Morell

Mutungamiri Mukuru

Purofesa Julio M. Morell Rodríguez ndiye Executive Director uye Principal Investigator weCaribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System (CARICOOS), chikamu chedunhu cheUS Integrated Ocean Observing System. Akazvarwa uye akakurira muPuerto Rico, akagamuchira B.Sc. paYunivhesiti yePuerto Rico-Rio Piedras. Akadzidziswa muChemical Oceanography paYunivhesiti yePuerto Rico-Mayaguez, kubvira 1999 akashanda sepurofesa wekutsvagisa kuDhipatimendi reMarine Sayenzi. Minda yakatevedzwa mubasa rake inosanganisira plankton metabolism, kusvibiswa nemafuta, marara uye anthropogenic kudya uye kuongorora kwetropical marine biogeochemical process kusanganisira basa ravo mukugadzirisa magasi anoshanda mumhepo (greenhouse).

Muzvinafundo Morell vakapindawo mukuedza kutsvagisa kwemarudzi akasiyana-siyana mukuona pesvedzero yemapombi makuru enzizi (Orinoco neAmazon) uye mesoscale maitiro, senge maeddies uye mafungu emukati, pane yemaziso, yemuviri uye biogeochemical hunhu hwemvura dzeEastern Caribbean. Zvinangwa zvekutsvagisa zvichangobva kuitika zvinosanganisira kutaura kwakasiyana kwemamiriro ekunze uye acidification yegungwa munzvimbo yedu yegungwa nemahombekombe.

Purofesa Morell akatarisa gungwa senzvimbo yake yekutandara; izvo zvamuitawo kuti azive nezvekukosha kwepamusoro ruzivo rwemahombekombe akatarisana neakasiyana nzanga zvikamu muCaribbean. Kweanopfuura makore gumi, Prof. Morell akaisa pfungwa mukuvandudza uye CARICOOS nechinangwa chekupa izvo zvinodiwa. Izvi zvave kuda kuenderera mberi kubatanidzwa kwezvikamu zvevane chekuita uye kuvaka kudyidzana nekutsvaga kwakakodzera, dzidzo, federal, nyika uye masangano akazvimirira akaita kuti CARICOOS ive chokwadi. CARICOOS inoshanda yakakosha data uye ruzivo mukutsigira nharaunda dzakachengeteka dzemahombekombe uye zvivakwa, zvakachengeteka uye zvinobudirira zviitiko zvemugungwa uye manejimendi ezviwanikwa zvemahombekombe.

Pakati pezvimwe zviitiko, anoshanda sechipangamazano kuPuerto Rico Climate Change Council, chirongwa cheUPR Sea Grant uye Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.