by Sam Weber | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
More than 99 % of Ascension Island’s territorial area is comprised of ocean. The ocean plays a key role in regulating Ascension’s climate, holds much of its biodiversity, and is a source of recreation and food for the Island’s human population. In 2019, the waters...
by Sam Weber | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
The long-term temperature and rainfall time series for Ascension Island compiled as part of the CRACAB project was recently published in the International Journal of Climatology. Check out the publication here: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7314
by Sam Weber | Apr 30, 2021 | Sea Turtles
Using imagery collected by drones, scientists at the University of Exeter have created the first high resolution 3D models of Ascension Island’s turtle nesting beaches. The research, led by Miguel Varela, used a technique called photogrammetry to produce accurate...
by Sam Weber | Apr 30, 2021 | Seabirds
One of the goals of the CRACAB project is to understand how contemporary climate variability influences the reproductive success of Ascension Island’s nesting seabirds, and thus how their conservation status might be affected by longer-term climate change. As a first...
by Sam Weber | Apr 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Before we project how Ascension Island’s climate is likely to change in future, it is first necessary to understand what the climate is like now and how it has varied over recent time. As part of the CRACAB project, Phil Jones and Dave Lister from the University of...
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