As of February 12, 2015, this station's deployment is underway, and it is expected to become operational within a few days. It is an anchored buoy located near the city of Puerto Plata on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. It was purchased by the
Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC or 5Cs). The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Coral Health and Monitoring Program (CHAMP) provides data management support for this station, and operates out of the NOAA's
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML).
We are informally referring to the buoy as PPDR1 (Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic the 1st) although the National Weather Service in the US will
also be giving it an all-numeric buoy designation.
The new buoy's approximate coordinates will be:
N 19° 50.007'
W 70° 43.868'
This is one of two CREWS/CCCCC buoys being deployed in the Dominican Republic; the other is called CWDR1 (Catuan Wreck) and its field log may be found
here.
