{"id":30957,"date":"2019-01-14T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=30957"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:00:28","slug":"puerto-ricos-jobos-bay-nerr-features-mangroves-ecosystems-manatees-and-gradual-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/puerto-ricos-jobos-bay-nerr-features-mangroves-ecosystems-manatees-and-gradual-recovery.htm","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico\u2019s Jobos Bay NERR Features Mangroves Ecosystems, Manatees and Gradual Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established in 1981, <a href=\"http:\/\/drna.pr.gov\/jbnerr\/\">Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve<\/a> (NERR) protects 2,883 acres of habitat on Puerto Rico\u2019s southern coast. Habitats include seagrass beds, mangrove forest, upland dry forest, wetlands and lagoons. Some of the notable species that make Jobos Bay their home include hawksbill turtles, brown pelicans, peregrine falcons, yellow-shouldered blackbirds and West Indian manatees. Jobos Bay NERR is home to 60 percent of Puerto Rico\u2019s endangered Antillean manatees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are also one of only two NERRS in the whole system that include coral reefs,\u201d says Angel Dieppa, Research Coordinator at Jobos Bay NERR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like the other NERRS, Jobos Bay uses the System Wide Management Program (<a href=\"http:\/\/swmprats.net\/swmp-widgets\/summary-plots\">SWMP<\/a>) protocols. These include measuring abiotic parameters such as nutrients, temperature, salinity, pH and dissolved oxygen. Biological monitoring is also performed, which includes biodiversity measurements as well as habitat and population characteristics monitoring. Watershed and land use is also tracked, with the data managed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/cdmo.baruch.sc.edu\/\">Centralized Data Management Office<\/a> (CDMO) in South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/ysi-exo2-multi-parameter-water-quality-sonde.htm\">YSI EXO2 data sondes<\/a> to gather temperature, salinity, pH, turbidity, depth and dissolved oxygen data. We also get chlorophyll-a data. Sargasso beaching is also monitored as it has been more frequent during the past years. We have 11 data sondes which we use for long term deployment year-round to monitor water quality. They are switched out monthly as needed,\u201d says Dieppa.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30966\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30966\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_landscapes-600x157.jpg\" alt=\"Jobos NERR\" width=\"600\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_landscapes-600x157.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_landscapes-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_landscapes-768x200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_landscapes-1536x401.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_landscapes-940x245.jpg 940w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_landscapes.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">(Left) Collaborators at the Sentinel Site (Center) Soft, gorgonians corals (Right) Sargasso affecting mangrove roots communities (All Photo Credit: Angel Dieppa)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jobos Bay has four stations where nutrients are monitored and grab samples are taken every month. Diel sampling with an ISCO pump is performed for 24 hour periods on a monthly basis. \u201cWe are also establishing transects in the mangrove forest for our Surface Elevation Table (SET) data gathering as part of the NERRS\/NOAA Sentinel Site Program, also SET infrastructure installation around the Island has been mimicked by the PR Coastal Zone Management Program. We are also using UAV\u2019s (drone) technology to track changes in the ecosystems. Submerged aquatic vegetation is monitored with the help of external collaboration that includes local and outside researchers from Union University, Tennessee. Weather monitoring is also important as it allows us to track the effects of drought and other significant events.\u201d Dieppa mentions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have established a good relationship with the residents here and engage them through our education program,\u201d says Dieppa, who has worked at the NERR for 13 years. The NERR is also partnered with the <a href=\"http:\/\/drna.pr.gov\/\">Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales<\/a> (Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30967\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30967\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_luis-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jobos NERR\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_luis-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_luis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_luis-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_luis-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_luis-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jobos_NERR_luis-940x705.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Luis sampling with an EXO sonde (Credit: Angel Dieppa)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it has enjoyed local support, Jobos Bay NERR has not been without challenges. \u201cWe have had problems with Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB),\u201d Dieppa adds. \u201cHurricane Maria also had devastating effects for some parts of Jobos Bay.\u201d The marsh location at Jobos Bay has a SET data gathering project. \u201cMaria definitely affected the marsh,\u201d says Dieppa. \u201cThe mangrove areas were also impacted. We could also see a lot of erosion on the reef islands after the hurricane. The whole structure of the area was affected.\u201d One of the worst effects of the hurricane was that two of the stations were lost. \u201cWe lost our Sutron data logger, telemetry and transmitter,\u201d Dieppa recalls. \u201cHowever, we were able to save our sondes.\u201d There were also no manatee casualties due to Maria, and the coral reefs did not seem to be noticeably affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite occasional setbacks such as Hurricane Maria, Dieppa feels that Jobos Bay NERR has been consistently moving forward, and he has enjoyed his work at the NERR with the collaboration of a highly dedicated staff. \u201cI see it as an opportunity to get good data and provide that data to land managers, and in turn have a positive impact on the decisions they make for Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Top image: Angel training students and professor on how to use EXO sondes (Credit: Angel Dieppa)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jobos Bay NERR in Puerto Rico is known for its coral reefs, manatees, turtles, falcons and diverse habitats, including lagoons and seagrass 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