Puerto Rico Beach
Puerto Rico Coastal Management Program
Coastal managers involve the public in Puerto Rico's coastal issues through Coastweeks celebrations, beach cleanups, marine science camps, a science fair, field trips, classes, and publications. ... [Read More]
Puerto Rico
Approximately 2,883 acres of mangrove forest and freshwater wetlands on the southern coast of Puerto Rico have been designated as the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The reserve includes fifteen tear-shape islets known as Cayos Caribe, and the Mar Negro area which consists of a mangrove forest and a complex system of lagoons and channels interspersed with salt and mud flats. Freshwater wetlands and subtropical dry forest vegetation are found on the northern island boundaries. Cayos Caribe islets are fringed by coral reefs and seagrass beds, with small beach deposits and upland areas. ... [Read More]
Environmental Protection Agency
var beachDefText="Beach Name";function ClearText(){if (document.forms["beachresults"].p_beach_name.value==beachDefText){document.forms["beachresults"].p_beach_name.value="";}} ... Beach Watch Home ... BEACON is EPA's application to make state beach advisory and closing data available to the public. ... [Read More]
Photo Gallery - Page 12/62
Barge MORRIS J. BERMAN incident, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 1994. Cleanup workers use heavy machinery and manual removal techniques to clean oil from the beach. ... [Read More]
Maps of the Spanish-American War -- Puerto Rico
Description: White and black map drawn on paper glued to canvas. The map has some outlining in color pencils probably done by original user or geographer. Detail information about organization of city and beach area. ... [Read More]
USGS Fact Sheet: Sand and Gravel Resources of Puerto Rico
Many of Puerto Rico's beaches are eroding, and though rates of erosionvary, it is a major concern for the tourism and residential developmentindustries. More than 85 percent of the population lives within 7kilometers of the coast and they are heavily dependent on tourists thatare attracted by the island's beaches and coral reefs. High-qualityscientific data are needed to help formulate public policy regardingresidential and commercial construction along the coast, beachreplenishment, and future use of marine resources. Scientists havelong recognized that the causes of coastal land loss are not limited toa relative rise in sea level, but can be manmade as well. For example,sediment supply to beaches especially along the north shore of PuertoRico has been strongly affected by upstream river channeling, damconstruction, various agricultural practices, paving and urbanization,as well as shallow-water oceanographic processes. The response tocoastal erosion in Puerto Rico has been mostly cri ... [Read More]
Benthic Habitats of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Beach, D.K., and J.V.A.Trumbull. 1981. Marine Geologic map of the Puerto Rico insular shelf, Isla Caja de Muertos area. Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-1265. U.S. Geological Survey, Washington D.C. ... [Read More]
Location 5 - Puerto Rico Home - Hurricane Georges
Location 5 : Discharge of runoff from a mangrove lagoon on the northeast corner of Puerto Rico forms a carbonate sand delta as the flow breaks through the beach. ... [Read More]
Location 1 - Puerto Rico Home - Hurricane Georges
Location 1 : Only a remnant dune line protects this coastal community from the storm waves that frequent the north coast. Note the erosive berm left on the beach face by the storm waves generated by Hurricane Georges. ... [Read More]
Sea Turtles of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
The greatest threats to sea turtles in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico today are coastal and upland development, introduction of domestic and nonindigenous animals, boating (both commercial and recreational), incidental take in fisheries, illegal harvest of adults and eggs, ingestion of and entanglement in marine debris, inadequate local protection and enforcement of laws, and insufficient regional cooperation for turtle protection. Coastal and upland developments that are constructed without concern for their downstream effects cause degradation of nesting beaches, seagrasses, coral reefs, and mangrove areas, which are all critical components of sea turtle habitat. Upland developments also result in increased lighting of nesting beaches, which disorients both hatchlings and adults (Philibosian 1975; Witherington and Bjorndal 1991; Witherington 1992). Such light forces nesting turtles to move away from protected public beaches into adjacent areas, where they are more vulnerable to p ... [Read More]
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