Coastal Monitoring in the Context of Climate Change: Time-Series Efforts in Lebanon and Argentina

Hassoun et al describe two coastal time-series stations located offshore Lebanon in the southeast Mediterranean Sea, one located in the Mediterranean Sea and the other in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, both in regions greatly impacted by climate change. Since 1999, stations B1 and B2, 5 km off the coast, have been sampled monthly in the upper 80 m for temperature, salinity, nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, plankton, and chlorophyll-a. Chemical variables added in 2012 include total alkalinity, total dissolved inorganic carbon, pH, dissolved oxygen, and silicates. At the same time and in a different hemisphere, another coastal monitoring effort is providing valuable climate change information. The Nuevo Gulf Oceanographic Station (Golfo Nuevo Estación Oceanográfica, GNEO), one of the first time-series oceanographic monitoring stations in Patagonia Argentina measures the temporal variability of physical, chemical, and biological processes in these waters. Monitoring stations are great platforms for promoting ocean literacy and public engagement.