Tres Palmas Marine Reserve Monitoring

One of our extension projects for the past several years has been with Amigos de Tres Palmas, a citizen group in charge of co-management of a marine reserve PR Sea Grant helped create in 2004 in the town of Rincon. As part of our guidance and coordination efforts in 2017 we funded workshops and field training of UPR Marine Science Graduate Program Students on NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) methodologies. The trained students then served as volunteer for a Citizen Science Monitoring Project done within MPA boundaries to supplement NCRMPs dataset and provide a baseline data for its Co-management strategies."