(the Facilities at Fundacion La Salle (Isla Margarita, Venezuela)

Project CARIACO

CARIACO (CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean) is a multidisciplinary oceanographic time series program established in the Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea)  to understand the effect of long-term variations in the settling export flux of organic carbon along a continental margin with respect to other fluxes that modify the total concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon and nutrients in surface waters. The program was initiated in November 1995 with funding from the NSF in collaboration with the CONICIT (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas) of Venezuela. This is a collaborative program between US and Venezuelan institutions, in which each of the participating groups is separately funded to address unique hypotheses, but which jointly permits addressing hypotheses of much broader scope.  Please follow the links below to learn more about Project CARIACO.

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