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Environment
/ Env. protection
Water
Climate
Agriculture
& Fisheries
Animals,
Zoo, Parks, Plants
Field
stations/ trips
Geology
Archaeology
- Bimini
Archaeology
Biology
/ Marine Biology
Geography
other
scientific topics
reef
protection
mammals
general, whales, sharks, manatees, jellyfish
dolphins,
dolphin therapy
Weather
general - Severe
weather conditions (hurricane season)
on separate pages: History
&
Society, Ethnology, Language,
Humour
see here
for Field stations
see here
for Economy, Industry, Development
see here for Water,
freshwater resources
Ecosystems of the Bahamas http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/BahamasWeb/VisitingTheBahamas.nsf/Subjects/Ecosystems+Of+The+Bahamas
Endangered Species of the Bahamas see here
BERC
Bahamas Environmental Research Center http://www.bahamasresearchcenter.com/
BERC, Margo Blackwell, The Director of the BERC on Andros http://www.4ecoed.org/berc.html
BERC
on COB website http://www.cob.edu.bs/Research/BERC.php
BEST Bahamas
Environment Science and Technology Commission http://www.best.bs
BMA
Bahamas Maritime Authority http://www.bahamasmaritime.com/
+++Article
22.01.04
"Ship register an 'open book'" Nassau
Guardian
BSA Bahamas
Shipowner Association http://www.bahamasmaritime.com/BSA.html
Bahamas Marine
Institute
http://www.bminst.org/
BNT Bahamas
National Trust http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/bahamasweb/visitingthebahamas.nsf/subjects/national+trust/
ANCAT Andros
Conservancy and Trust http://www.ancat.org/
Bahamas Serve as Test Case for Marine Protected
Areas http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=6431
Abaco Friends of the
Environment http://www.friendsoftheenvironment.org/
SIRC
Press release about flag audit report see here
IMO
International Maritime Organisation see here
Basel Convention on Transboundary
Movements
of Hazardous Wastes http://www.basel.int/
BCRF Bahama
Cave Research Foundation http://www.bahamacaves.com/pages/686289/index.htm
Caribbean Invasive Species Threats (Cabi) http://www.cabi-bioscience.org/Html/Feedback.pdf
CCC Clean
Caribbean Cooperative http://www.cleancaribbean.org/index.html
CEHI Caribbean
Environment Health Institute http://www.cehi.org.lc/bahamas.htm
CITES
Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species http://www.cites.org/
CITES
Country report http://www.cites.org/common/prog/hbt/country_report/Bahamas.pdf
Coral Health
and Monitoring Program of NOAA http://www.coral.noaa.gov/
CSC
Commonwealth Science Council (biodiversity, environment, water etc.) http://www.comsci.org/
CSDA Center for Sustainable Development in
the Americas http://www.csdanet.org/
Environmental Education for Sustainable
Development
(List of Websites re ...) http://www.nepa.gov.jm/neecweb/websites/websites.htm
GEF Global Environment Facility (> UNEP), List
of Projects http://www.gefonline.org/home.cfm
> enter Country=Bahamas
GEO Global Environment Outlook http://www.unep.org/GEO/index.htm
+++Article:
30.01.04
"Bahamas to get $20,000 to prepare environmental report" Nassau
Guardian
ICM
Integrated Coastal Management http://icm.noaa.gov/country/Bahamas.html
ICEF
5th International Conference on Environmental Future (23-27th March
2003
in Zurich)
http://www.icef.eawag.ch/index.html
for
5th and other ICEF see also
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/icef/
RAMSAR The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of
international
importance (1 site in the Bahamas) http://www.ramsar.org/profiles_bahamas.htm
UN
Biological Diversity Report Bahamas http://www.biodiv.org/doc/world/bs/bs-nr-02-en.pdf
YRE
"Young reporters for the environment", Oct 2002: "Caribbean ecosystems,
local threats and global risks from impact of climate change" http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/yre/agency/events/missbahamas/report.htm
Earth
Trends
Country Profiles (incl. lots of statistical data)
(three data retrievals without registration,
then free registration required)
- Forests, grasslands, and Drylands http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/For_cou_044.pdf
- Agriculture and Food http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Agr_cou_044.pdf
- Biodiversity and Protected Areas http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Bio_cou_044.pdf
- Climate and Atmosphere http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Cli_cou_044.pdf
- Population, Health and Human Well Being http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Pop_cou_044.pdf
- Economic indicators (Economics, business and
environment) http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Eco_cou_044.pdf
- Energy and resources (no
useful data so far) http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Ene_cou_044.pdf
- Environmental institutions and governance http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Env_cou_044.pdf
- Water resources and freshwater Ecosystems link
broken
- Coastal and marine ecosystems http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Coa_cou_044.pdf
+++Articles
16.08.04
"Handwringing
over wetlands destruction - Govt seeks public assistance to formulate
cut
and dried policy" Nassau
Guardian
25.08.04 "Wetlands Policy may be too late for
Bimini - Renewed call for intervention comes in face of further Bimini
Bay encroachment" Nassau
Guardian
04.02.05 "'Blue Flag' standards now being applied in Bahamas" Freeport
News
Environmentalists
fighting the LNG pipeline http://www.stopthepipeline.com/route/
+++Articles
26.11.03 "Fiery questions posed at LNG town
meeting"
Nassau
Guardian
02.12.03 "Gas pipeline consultations ongoing"
Nassau
Guardian
28.01.04 "Govt weighing 'economic' benefits of
LNG proposals " Nassau
Guardian
19.04.04 "AES would not accept rejection from
Bahamas govt" Nassau
Guardian
22.04.04 "PM speaks out on LNG pipelines" Nassau
Guardian
03.06.04 "LNG company says it would patiently
wait on govt's decision" Nassau
Guardian
25.01.05 "LNG: Challenges Facing The Bahamas" Bahama Journal
14.02.05 "LNG pipeline to go below seabed - Following protests from Florida residents " Nassau Guardian
Clifton
- CHA Clifton Heritage Authority etc. http://www.cliftonbahamas.com
- http://216.121.162.240/cbm/index.html
Clifton
Beach - Bahamas, Development vs. Clifton Conservation Area http://www.cccturtle.org/clifton/
+++Articles
15.01.04 "Govt' To Move On Clifton" Bahama
Journal via B2B
23.01.04 "Clifton Bill could 'gated community'
fight" Nassau
Guardian
02.02.04 "Mother Pratt: CHA could enhance
nation's
integrity " Nassau
Guardian
02.02.04 "Debate continues on Clifton Authority"Nassau
Guardian
02.20.04 "Prime Minister fought for Clifton"
Nassau
Guardian
22.04.04 "Turnquest gives 'facts' on Clifton"
Nassau
Guardian
14.07.04 "Government to recreate history at
Clifton
Cay, says PM" Nassau
Guardian
see also Earth
Trend Country Profile
see also Animals, Zoo, Parks,
Plants
UWI St Augustine Campus (Trinidad & Tobago) - Faculty of Science & Agriulture http://www.staugustine.uwi.edu/fsa/
FAO
Agricultural
Census 1994 http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/ECONOMIC/ESS/census/wcares/Bahamas_1994.pdf
IICA Inter-American Institute for Cooperation
on Agriculture http://www.iica.int/home.asp
CAFP Caribbean Agriculture and Fisheries
Programme
(+other agricultural programmes) http://www.cafpro.org
SAQS [EU] Strengthening Agricultural Quarantine
Services Project http://www.cafpro.org/saqs.html
EU Inspection Report (Aug 2002) on conditions
of production of fishery products http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/inspections/vi/reports/bahamas/vi_rep_baha_8617-2002_en.pdf
SCC Goodfellow Farms http://www.goodfellowfarms.com/pages/357008/index.htm
+++Article 10.02.04 "Goodfellow Farms" Nassau
Guardian
! Search
the
Abaco
Journal (1998 onward) for "Gardening"
MacAlister report for BREEF: Nassau Grouper and
Queen Conch in the Bahamas http://www.macalister-elliott.com/reports/1651R02C.pdf
see here for pet import
gtz/FAO Forest resources http://www.gtz.de/capacity_building/english/countries/land3.htm
+++Articles
01.03.00 "Agricultural sector is ripe for growth"
Washington
Times
31.01.03 "Invasive Species Workshop" by [UK]
National Invasive Species Strategy (NISS) Nassau
Guardian via B2B
02.10.03 "Atlantic's greatest diversity of fish
found between Florida and The Bahamas" Nassau
Guardian
04.10.03
"Cracking
the Conch Crisis" Nassau
Guardian
27.10.03 "Farmer of the Year 2003" Nassau
Guardian
05.11.03 "Where have all the big fish gone?"
Nassau
Guardian
19.11.03
"Possible
cultural impact of BREEF " Nassau
Guardian
08.12.03 "Professor tells how to shore up fish
supplies" Nassau
Guardian
18.12.03 "Fishermen upset over grouper ban" Nassau
Guardian
20.01.04 "Gray- Fishermen need patience on
grouper
ban" Nassau
Guardian
02.02.04 "Lift on Grouper ban leaves sellers
still boiling mad" Nassau
Guardian
03.02.04 "Grouper ban ducked?" Nassau
Guardian
01.03.04 "Abaco dairy farm project not yet
approved
by NEC " Nassau
Guardian
03.08.04 "Crawfish season opens" Nassau
Guardian
17.08.04 "Finding Molluscs - Interns exploring
conch harvesting restrictions" Nassau
Guardian
18.10.04 "Farmers honoured for World Food day"
Nassau
Guardian
09.11.04 "Could the queen disappear?" Nassau
Guardian
16.12.04 "Grouper ban
begins today" Nassau
Guardian
11.01.05 "Quarantine !Abaco under Canker
quarantine Agriculture officials checking extent of outbreak " Nassau
Guardian
20.01.05 "Gov’t Taking Legal Action Against Citrus Investors"
Bahama Journal
21.01.05 "[Citrus] Farm Owner Denies Abandoning Operation" Bahama Journal
01.02.05 "Florida learns hurricanes cause citrus canker spread" Freeport
News
08.02.05 "Citrus Canker plants finally being destroyed" Nassau
Guardian
10.02.05 "Abaco entrepreneurs hired to destroy canker-infested citrus
plants" Freeport
News
14.02.05
"Who let the cows out?
[Letter to the Editor]" Nassau
Guardian
20.11.07 "Call for egg subsidies" Nassau
Guardian
"The government must look at subsidizing the two remaining egg producers in order to keep them from following on the heels of his own operation, now out of business, said Chris Lowe. "The best thing the government can do now is look at subsidizing the remaining farms because it's too late for us," said Lowe, whose family has owned and operated Nassau's Sunshine Farms since the mid 1950. That legacy came to an abrupt end last spring, leaving only two other egg producers in The Bahamas. The closure also deprives consumers of the 700 to 800 cases of eggs the operation produced each week. Their absence is now being felt as Bahamian retailers complain of shortages across the country. The government appears to have now answered their concerns allowing for the temporary import of eggs to make up for the shortfall. Under the current price control mechanism, Bahamian farmers are ostensibly offered an exclusive market in this country. Imports are, however, allowed if they qualify as speciality product. Lowe and others in the once self-sufficient industry have, in the past, argued that that qualification has been breached, with ordinary Grade-A eggs from the U.S. landing with a thud in stores across the country. That unsanctioned competition along with escalating feed costs across the globe contributed to Sunshine's decision to end its half-century production run. Lowe is now advocating for those who remain — Rainbow Farms on New Providence and Sunshine Farms on Grand Bahama, the nation's largest producer. "The Caribbean actually laughs at us because we can't even feed ourselves with food we produce," he told Guardian Business Monday. "The fact is every country subsidizes its farmers — the U.S., Canada., everyone except us. ""I'm fighting for the industry because if you don't watch it, it will be lost." Lowe is suggesting a simple cash subsidy may be the best option, with government granting a farming operation 10 percent of what it sells. It currently offers the industry some considerations in exchange for limiting its wholesale price to $1.55 per cartoon. That helping hand includes duty exemptions of brooding hens and other essential components. Extending subsidies in the direct proffered by Lowe would likely run counter to any World Trade Organization rules The Bahamas would need to agree to in order to win membership. Joining that organization seems increasingly likely as the country faces looming international trade deals and the decision of whether or not to sign onto them. Still, it does have the power to expressly protect some key industries from the vagaries of a free market. Egg production — once acknowledged as only farming sector able to feed The Bahamas without reliance on imports — may be a likely candidate for that kind of protection, argue Lowe and others. "The government needs to step up and ask itself, if they really want to keep the industry and local production, in general, alive, or don't they," he said."
see
here for
articles
about "Korean Fishing Venture"
+++Articles
12.07.03 "Consumers second look at water amd
sanitation" Nassau
Guardian
see here for
16.08.04
Article about wetland destruction
14.12.04 "Govt. dishes out $600,000 to acquire Treasure Cay water
supply" Nassau
Guardian
17.01.05 "Cabinet invites bids to construct reverse osmosis water
plant - Water shortage continues; Titus barge still not repaired " Nassau
Guardian
17.02.05 "Water relief - Reverse Osmosis contract awarded, water supply
improving [Nassau - should totally eliminate the barging of water from
Andros] " Nassau
Guardian
17.07.07 "No Water in Bimini" Nassau Guardian
A faulty pipeline at the Water and Sewerage plant in Bimini left hotel owners there in an uproar earlier this week as the entire island was without water for nearly three days. Assistant General Manager for Family Islands and Marine Operations Robert Deal said, however, that as of noon Wednesday, "high quality and high pressure water" was restored to homes and businesses. He explained that a busted pump made for almost a 72-hour stint without running water for the residents. "We had a problem with our feed water pump at our plant in North Bimini," he said. "But we keep water in storage so whenever the plant goes down we have water in storage. However, we did have low storage levels and we had to rotate the water." He explained that during a water shortage, the plant only supplies water to the island during the morning and evening peak hours; during the other parts of the day there was either low pressure or no running water at all, he said. One Bimini resort owner told The Guardian that an American couple had already packed up their belongings and were on their way out. "I had to literally run them down and explain the situation," she said. "They were very upset, but thankfully I was able to calm them down and convince them to stay a while longer." Another hotel owner on the island said his business has been "extremely affected" by the water shortage, claiming that he has had to beg and plead with his hotel guests to bear with him. "I had to explain to them that it really wasn't our fault and that there was nothing I could do," he said. "But there wasn't much I could tell people who (are) spending almost $200 a night and can't flush their toilets, brush their teeth, take a shower or even wash their hands. We had to make some concessions to the prices and this is very bad for business." He said that even though he did have water at about 1 p.m. Wednesday, the pressure was still low and water barely trickled out of the faucets. He added that a lot of the residents on the island are blaming the Bimini Bay Hotel development for "using up all the water." He said when he asked guests of the resort if they were having problems with their water supply they said, "No." The hotel owner said this isn't the first time the mega development has been blamed for "taking all of the island's water supply." But workers at the resort said they cannot be blamed for the water shortage when they too have had a lack of water for the past three days. Deal noted, however, that the corporation purchases desalinated water from a company that's a part of a joint venture involving Aqua Design Bahamas and "another company that owns the Bimini Bay Resort." While some residents and businesses said they used their outside pumps and other water sources hooked up to their buildings and didn't have to go without water for long, others on the island said life for them for the past three days was "complete torture." "The city water has been shut off for the past three days now and it has been hectic," one resident said. "I think the whole island was out of water because everywhere I went I heard people complaining about either low, low water pressure or some of them had absolutely no water for the full three days." The resident who did not want to be named said Bimini residents were "buying them five gallon water like crazy," in a bid to carry out daily household and hygiene routines. "There was absolutely nothing I could do," one Alice Town resident said. "I just had to buy a few five gallon bottles and sit here and wait until it came back on. That was worse than going without electricity for three days." Today Bimini is known as the big game-fishing capital of the world, attracting thousands of tourists each year. |
drinking / potable water, see comment here
see also Earth
Trend Country Profile > water
New Providence
(&
Family Islands)
WSC Bahamas Water & Sewerage Corporation
http://www.wsc.com.bs/
e.g. "Use of RO, Reverse Osmosis, in the Family Islands" http://www.wsc.com.bs/rev_osm.html
Wastewater
Treatment and Disposal in the Bahamas http://www.cep.unep.org/pubs/techreports/tr43en/Bahamas.htm
Grand Bahama
GBPO Grand Bahama Port Authority about "Grand
Bahama Utility Company Ltd" http://www.gbpa.com/infrastructure.lasso
Florida-Aquastore - Grand Bahama Wastewater
project
http://www.florida-aquastore.com/new/PDF/GBHUCL.pdf?16,15
Florida-Acquastore - various projects in the
Bahamas http://www.florida-aquastore.com/bahamas.html
The Grand Bahama Utility
Company, a
subsidiary
of the Port Group of Companies, provides unlimited fresh water from an
elaborate water table to the Freeport/Lucaya City. Water supply for the
outlying settlements is provided by the government owned Ministry of
Works
and Utilities via smaller systems. Additional water for the settlements
is purchased from the Grand Bahama Utility Company. Source: GB
Chamber of Commerce (Dated and original source?) Water is yet another fundamental in respect of which Grand Bahama is particularly fortunate. Most islands in the Caribbean area suffer from inadequate fresh water resources to accommodate substantial populations, not to mention the needs of tourists for irrigated golf courses, swimming pools, and ornamental water features. Grand Bahama Island, on the other hand, lies atop a vast natural aquifer with fresh water lenses up to 60 feet in depth. It is estimated that there is enough fresh water throughout the island to supply a population of about 400,000. Within developed areas, water is distributed by Grand Bahama Utility Company, Ltd., another affiliate of DEVCO, at very reasonable rates. source: http://www.jmtravel.com/grand.htm |
Family
Islands
WSC
Family Island Water History http://www.wsc.com.bs/fi_water_hist.htm
Bimini situation & plans (Bradely B Roberts
Speech of Nov 2002) http://www.bahamasissues.com/showthread.php?p=203#post203
Long Island situation & plans http://www.znsbahamas.com/news.php?module=article_show&art_id=227
"Work in Progress" by Prefabbicati Zecca of Milan
http://www.zecca.com/ita/press_bahamas.htm
EBR Holding, Emerald Bay Resort, Exuma, reverse
osmosis water treatment http://www.emeraldbayresort.com/viewpress.asp?ID=27
Freshwater resources
(freshwater lenses, groundwater lenses etc.)
Ghyben-Hertzberg
Lenses http://www.wsc.com.bs/ghy_hertz.htm
Bahamas
National Report on IWCAM Integrated Management of Watersheds and
Coastal
Areas in SIDS of the Caribbean http://www.cehi.org.lc/water_resources/projects/iwcam/national_reports/bahamas/bahamas_national_report.pdf
UNEP
"Sourcebook of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augumentation in
Small Island Developing States" http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/Publications/TechPublications/TechPub-8d/methodology.asp
The
unique, underground waterworlds of Bahamiam blue holes
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/FieldCourses99/MarineEcologyArticles/Final.Theuniqueundergroun.html
Karst
development on carbonate island http://genet-server.ibtm.tuwien.ac.at/speleo/art/Sg2/SG2_artId21.pdf
Protection
of quality and supply of freshwater resources (UN, Agenda 21) http://www.un.org/esa/earthsummit/baham-cp.htm#chap18
Planet Ark, search for Bahamas http://www.planetark.org/index.cfm
Desalination Links http://www.desline.com/
2003 IDA World Congress on Desalination and Water
Reuse, PI Bahamas http://www.ida.bm/PDFS/Conferences/Bahamas/CallforPapers.pdf
IDA International Desalination Association (and
more about 2003 conference) http://www.idadesal.org/
What are aquifiers?
Groundwater is water that is found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock. Groundwater is stored in, and moves slowly through, layers of soil, sand and rocks called aquifers. Aquifers consist of gravel, sand, sandstone, and fractured rock. These materials are permeable because they have large connected spaces that allow water to flow through. source http://groundwater.articleinsider.com/60626_groundwater.html |
Climate
(Climate
Change)
see also weather
see also Earth
Trend Country Profile > Climate
Climate
Change Impacts - Islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/overviewislands.htm-
see also ch11
CSDA Center for Sustainable Development in
the Americas Climate Change Glossary http://www.csdanet.org/English/publications/glossary.htm
see here
for Marine Biology, dolphins, sharks, manatee, jelly fish etc.
see here for Agriculture
see here for insects etc. (No-seeums, noseeums, no-see-ums,
sand
flies, sand gnats, midges, mosquitos)
+++Article
16.02.05 "Plea to protect rare bird [the Bahama Nuthatch - a rare bird
found only on Grand Bahama]" Freeport
News
Endangered Species of the Bahamas http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/BahamasWeb/VisitingTheBahamas.nsf/Subjects/Endangered+Species+&+Eco
CBSG
Conservation
Breeding Specialist Group / San Salvador Field Station - Paper about:
Protected
Areas Management Strategies: Bahamian terrestrial vertebrates: iguanas
and seabirds http://www.cbsg.org/reports/reports/exec_sum/bahama_iguana_camp.pdf
Animalinfo - endangered species http://www.animalinfo.org/country/bahamas.htm
with Glossary
!!Bahamas
Wildlife (private website) http://www.bahamaswildlife.fsnet.co.uk/start.htm
Abaco
Wild Horses http://www.arkwild.org/
Sea Turtle
Survival League-Caribbean Conservation - incl Clifton Cay Bahamas http://www.cccturtle.org/ccctmp.htm
- see also here
The hutia (by SI) http://www.mnh.si.edu/livingfossils/hutia.htm
Bimini Boa
http://www.kingsnake.com/biminiboas/
Society of
Caribbean Ornithology SCSCB http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/SCSCB/index.html
Ardastra
Gardens, Zoo and Conservation Centre http://www.ardastra.com
Ardastra
Gardens,
Mr Norman Solomon http://www.caciqueawards.com/Lifetime/1998_Lifetime.htm
Garden of
the Groves, Grand Bahama http://www.gardenofthegroves.com/wildlife.html
Peterson Cay National Park (GBI) http://www.geographia.com/grandbahama/peterson.htm
Inagua National Park (description of
RAMSAR/wetlands.org)
http://www.wetlands.org/RDB/Ramsar_Dir/Bahamas/BS001D02.htm
or all
docs
Inagua National Park, James “Jimmy”
Nixon http://www.caciqueawards.com/Lifetime/1997_Lifetime.htm
Conference paper (2002): Challenges of Animal
Protection on Island Nations: with special emphasis on dogs and cats http://files.hsus.org/web-files/HSI/E_Library_PDFs/eng_challenges_island_nations.pdf
HSI Human Society International, animal care,
Bahamas initiatives http://www.hsus2.org/international/bahamas.html
see here
for Bimini Love Program (doc clinic)
The Kirtland's Warbler http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/8090/Kirtland.html
(it's a bird, not Kirland or Kirkland; many dates-in-history-websites
jut
list "1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas")
A Tale of Two Habitats: Fire and the Kirtland's
Warbler http://tncfire.org/vol8no1.html
The Kirtland's Warbler Recovery Team http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/hmnf/pdf_files/bahamas/KWRT-Bahamas2002.pdf
Conserving the (Abaco) Bahama Amazon (a parrot) http://www.realmacaw.com/pages/bahama.html
Parks - short descriptions http://www.interknowledge.com/bahamas/bseco02.htm
List of parks (Bahamas Handbook 1995) http://www.bahamasnet.com/w.ecoparks.html
Parks on Grand Bahama http://www.interknowledge.com/grandbahama/nature.htm
SCC Horse
riding Equitation Pinetree Stables, Freeport, Bahamas http://thebahamian.com/pinetree/
SCC Happy
Trails Stables, Nassau, http://www.bahamasvacationguide.com/happyt.html
- short comment/review here
see comment
here
(mainly about Freeport)
2003 World Parks Congress http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/wpc2003/index.htm
+++Article 8.10.03 "Bahamas National Parks
highlighted at World Parks Congress" Nassau
Guardian
Photos of Bahamian Birds and Butterflies http://www.odolep.com/midatlanticbirds/bahamas/bahamas.htm
Catesby Mark, The Natural History of Florida,
Carolina and the Bahama Islands (1731-1743) !on-line
see here
+++Article 05.11.04 "Wild berries and
eats out da bush" Nassau
Guardian
Field stations, field trips |
Field
Stations Overview
For a short
description of all the Field Stations go to http://www.obfs.org/Members/search.php
> search by [country] > search text [Bahamas]
see
below
under topics for
- Forfar Field
Station on Andros (Biology, Marine Biology)
- Gerace
Research
Center San Salvador (Marine
Biology, Geology, Archaeology)
- the
GERACE website
- Sharklab
Research Station on Bimini (Shark Research)
- Caribbean
Marine Research Center (CMRC) Exumas
Geology |
The Bahamas are fairly simple geologically and visitors often make the mistake of thinking the islands are volcanic in origin. They are really composed of Tertiary limestone deposits formed approximately one to two million years ago. The cays themselves are low lying with few hills over 100 feet high. (source) |
see also Water
Geology
(Smith
Coll.) Field Trip (reef pictures)
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Geology/Bahamas/fieldphotos.html
Geology
(Brigham
Young Uni) Field Trip (reef and satellite pict !) http://geologyindy.byu.edu/ftrips/bahamas/Default.htm
Geology (Uni
of South Carolina) - Stratigraphy of the Neogene of the Western Bahamas
http://strata.geol.sc.edu/exerices/seismic/exercise4-bahamas-objectives.html
Geology
(Carleton)
Field Trip http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/GEOL/RelatedPrograms/bahamas/index.html
Geology -
Thesis, C. Schneider on Subsurface Lithology & Faunal Description,
San Salvador http://www.cschneider.com/academics/defense.html
Dr. Steven
K Boss (1994), Geological investigation on Northern Great Bahama Bank http://comp.uark.edu/~sboss/ngbb.htm
ODP Ocean
Drilling Project Bahamas (GBB) http://odp.pangaea.de/publications/166IR/CHAP_03.PDF
Bathymetric map of the Caribbean Basin http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol/batha.gif
(Colors scale: from dark blue - 6000 feet below sea level
to light brown +4000 feet above sea level)
Bahamas Bathymetry http://physics.umbc.edu/~mcmillan/PROJECTS/CAMEX3/Andros/bahamas_map_large.jpeg
NOAA/NGDC links to "Global Seafloor Topography
from Satellite Altimetry", e.g. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minsurface/45N090W.html
Origin of the Bahamas Platform http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/users/menke/bahamas/bahamas.pdf
Seafloor Topography http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/walter/AtlCarib.jpg
Characterizing scale-dependence of hydraulic
conductivity in carbonates: evidence from the Bahamas Whitaker/Smart http://www.cas.astate.edu/geochemistry/hydro/whitaker_smart_week11.pdf
FIU Draper: Caribbean geology and tehtonics,
links, maps etc. http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol/
TU Freiberg The Caribbean plate and the question
of its formation http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/~merkel/vorlesung/OS2001/bachmann_raik.pdf
Archaeology |
see also history
San Salvador
GIS Database http://www.newhaven.edu/sansalvador/gis/about.htm
San Salvador
Island GERACE (Archaeology, Field Station etc.) http://sansalvadorbahamas.com/AugSSsite/gerace2.htm
Caribbean
Archaeology (Florida Museum of Natural History) http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarch/default.htm
Caribbean
Archaeology (Florida Museum of Natural History) Inagua http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarch/inagua.htm
BERC Bahamas
Environmental Research Center Andros
http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/cfs/Andros/androsframes.htm
Wylly, plantation, archaeological settlement
on New Providence, see here
+Books:
Caribbean Archaeology - book list
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarch/bullenbib.htm
Farnsworth Paul, Island Lives (Historical
archaeologies
of the Caribbean incl. Clifton Plantation and New Providence)
Keegan William F, Bahamian Archaeology
Keegan William F, The People Who Discovered Columbus
Bimini Road, Road to Atlantis
Skeptical Inquirer Jan/Feb 2004 "A Geologist's
Adventures with Bimini Beachrock and Atlantis True Believers" http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-01/geologists-adventures.html
Bimini Undersea http://www.biminiundersea.com/atlantis.htm
Pseudoarchaeology (Atlantis)? Back to Bimini
(1998) - archeological mysteries of Bimini, William Donato http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue14/ar14bimini.html
The Bimini Hoax? - Good-bye to the Bimini Wall
and Road? http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf004/sf004p02.htm
Atlantis "Discovery" Gets Sunk (Drs. Du Val and
Pettennude discuss the authenticity of the Bimini Road) http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/atlantis.htm
HOG WASH Source: Paul E. Pettennude,
thanks to
Coreen Kutchak / As an underwater archaeologist dealing with indigenous
America, I can state categorically that nothing has been found in the
Bahamas.
I can say this for several reasons: |
Fountain of Youth
Progress report "Florida's Fountain of Youth"
http://www.progress.org/fountain.htm
The Fountain of Youth: The Fountain of Youth was an imaginary spring. Many legends were told about it in both Europe and America. Its waters were supposed to make old people young. Early Spanish settlers in the Caribbean region believed that the fountain was located on an island called Bimini. In 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon set out to find Bimini. During his voyage, he discovered Florida, which since then has been linked to the imaginary fountain. (source) |
Biology / Marine Biology |
see below for reef/reef protection, mammals, whales, sharks, manatees, jellyfish, dolphins, dolphin therapy
Association
of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbeanhttp://amlc.uvi.edu/
Forfar Field
Station (IFS) Andros http://www.intlfieldstudies.com/
- !! Tripadvisor
reviews
see here
for history of Forfar Field Station
Bimini
Biological
Field Station (Miami Uni) http://www.miami.edu/sharklab/
(old site http://hem.passagen.se/frogboy/bbfs/bbfs.htm)
MacGillivray Freeman's Coral Reef Adventure
see
here
CMRC Caribbean
Marine Research Center (NOAA), Lee Stocking Island/Exumas http://www.cmrc.org/
CMRC/NURCs
description (2002) by NOAA http://www.oar.noaa.gov/organization/programs/nurcs.html
Studying
Nassau
grouper spawning aggregations (CMRC) http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/spot_spawn.html
Marine
Reserve Research to Protect Fisheries in the Caribbean http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/spot_cmrc.html
NURP/CMRC
technical dive training for Scientists (CMRC) http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/spot_trimix.html
Research
aboard
"Explorer of the Sea" http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/rccl/
and http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/spot_explorer.html
Bahamas Marine Mammal Stranding (March 2000)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/overview/Interim_Bahamas_Report.pdf
Marine Habitat Classification http://islands.bio.miami.edu/Classifications/Docs/Marine.doc
(Miami Uni) Mark R. Boardman, Dept. of
Geology,
pictures of various field trips in 2003 to San Salvador & Andros http://typhoon.wcp.muohio.edu/boardman/photostills/Bah2003/TOC.html
(Samford Uni)-
Field Trip Andros http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/biology/bahamas/
(Gannon Uni)-
Field Trip Andros (2003) http://www.gannon.edu/RESOURCE/DEPT/biology/bahamas.html
(Hartwick
Coll.) - Field Trip San Salvador http://info.hartwick.edu/biology/opportunities/SanSalPics/index.html
(Emporia Uni)
Field Trip San Salvador - Photos http://academic.emporia.edu/mooredwi/bahamas/
San Salvador
Field Trips (packed website...)
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/html/tropecoimages.html#anchor938502
(Truman Uni)
"Study Abroad" http://www2.truman.edu/~nsanders/studyabroad/navframes.html
> Bahamas
Expedition
"Living Fossils of the Deep" http://www.mnh.si.edu/livingfossils/defaulthome.htm
The Island
School, Eleuthera http://www.islandschool.org/
SCC The
Island Expedition http://www.islandexpedition.com/IslandExpeditionHome.html
Geography |
see also under History, Environment, Society, Ethnologue, Biology, Geologyetc.
For facts
&
figures go to The Bahamas CIA World Factbook
> Geography
Caribbean Sportlight, Geography of the Caribbean
(short overview) http://www.caribbean-spotlight.com/geography.html
+Book:
Sealey Neil, E, Bahamian Landscapes: An introduction to the Geography
of
the Bahamas (1995)
see also here
(study made in 1987) Caribbean
Islands,
a country study > search for Bahamas
Where are the Bahamas - geographically, technically?
The Bahamas (that's with a capital "T") is one of the most geographically complicated nations of the Atlantic. (Frommers). The Caribbean consists of the Antilles and the Bahamas and is part of North America. Antilles= islands of the Caribbean or West Indies, except the Bahamas. A distinction is made between the "Greater Antilles", including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; and the "Lesser Antilles" (the remainder of the islands). Because of their linguistic similarities with spanish-speaking nations, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are also considered part of Latin America. Geographically speaking the Antilles are part of North America. (source) Geographically, the Caribbean region is located south of Florida, North of Venezuela, and east of Central America. The Caribbean includes independent states as well as dependent territories or commonwealths of the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Netherlands. The Caribbean Region technically includes the island nation of Cuba, and those states in the Caribbean Sea south to the north coastal areas of Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, and French Guyana. Technically Bermuda and The Bahamas are not part of the Caribbean Region. (source, 1995) - see also for list of Caribbean States and their Status Geographically considered part of the Caribbean, the archipelago that encompasses the Islands of The Bahamas lies in the Atlantic Ocean. (source) Caribbean? thoughts about "territory" http://www.findaircraft.com/services/insurance/territorial.html Contrary to popular belief, the Bahamas are not in the Caribbean Sea. Because they're so close geographically and culturally to the Caribbean, they're often considered part of that region. However, it's the Atlantic Ocean that surrounds them. This northern locale means that, during winter months, the weather in the Bahamas is sometimes cooler than the always-warm Caribbean. (source) ! What Wikipedia says about Caribbean, also historical names/unions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean and Latin America The Lucayan archipelago is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. source: Wikipedia |
Other scientific topics |
see here
for land based animals etc.
see below for reef/reef
protection,
mammals,
whales, sharks, manatees, jellyfish,
dolphins, dolphin
therapy
(Berkley)
Dangerous
Beaches Project http://geography.berkeley.edu:16080/ProjectsResources/DangerousBeaches/DangerousBeaches.html
(Berkley)
Dangerous Beaches Project - Bahamas http://geography.berkeley.edu:16080/ProjectsResources/DangerousBeaches/Caribbean/Caribbean.html
Florida
Current
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/atlantic/florida.html
NOAA Research
Labs (atmosphere, climate, ocean)
http://www.oar.noaa.gov/
AUTEC
US Navy undersea warfare systems test complex on Andros
Lansing
Cay Exuma (Elfritz, Formation Inc. - packed website...) http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net/lansing.htm
CPACC
Caribbean
Planning for Adaptation to Global Climate Change http://www.cpacc.org/bahamas_pg.htm
(Thesis
on Petrographic Analysis and Depositional History of an Open Carbonate
Lagoon... and Man Head Cay Project) http://stubotics.onza.net/
> Master Thesis or > Man Head Cay Project
Cave Biology
(Galveston Uni) http://www.tamug.tamu.edu/cavebiology/index2.html
Earthwatch
Project
http://neptune.atlantis-intl.com/dolphins/earthw.htm
Earthwatch
Expedition Bahamas http://www.earthwatch.org/region/camerica.html
Am. Museum
of Natural History, Biodiversity Conservation
http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/center/programs/marine.html
(Rutger Uni)
Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (ocean temp etc.) http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/data.html
Nature
Conservancy
http://nature.org/wherewework/caribbean/bahamas/
Underwater
wonders of the Bahamas, online tour
http://www.bahamas.mall.bs/marina/underwater/default.htm
1998 International Year of the Ocean http://www.bahamasnet.com/iyo/index.html
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of
UNESCO) http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/default.htm
Reef, reef protection |
BREEF Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation http://www.breef.org/
Discovery
Channel
"Life on the Reef", Bahamas 9.21.2000
http://www.discovery.com/exp/coralreef/today.html
Discovery- Reefs from space http://www.discovery.com/exp/coralreef/space.html
NOAA Bahamas
coral reef info incl map http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/icg/baha0map.htm
GCRMN Global
Coral Reef Monitoring Network http://www.coral.noaa.gov/
ICRI
International Coral Reef Initiative (incl large list of related links)
http://www.icriforum.org/
Reefball Foundation, projects in the Bahamas
http://www.reefball.com/map/bahamas.htm
Remote sensing
of coral reefs, satellite pictureshttp://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/reefs.pl
National Geographic, Why Is Seaweed Killing
Florida's
Coral Reefs? (23.8.02) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0823_TVseaweed.html
MacGillivray Freeman's Coral Reef Adventure see here
Reefrelief (large reef protection
related
image archive)
GTC Green Turtle Cay Bahamas Project, Abacos
http://www.reefrelief.org/programs/international.shtml#gtc
Captain Roberts Environmental Center, Abacos
http://www.reefrelief.org/projects/international/bahamas/project_initiation.shtml
Coral Reef Photo Monitoring, Abacos
images
http://www.reefreliefimages.org/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Bahamas
Mammals general, whales, sharks, Manatees, Jellyfish |
Whales of
the
Bahamas http://www.rockisland.com/~orcasurv/bcruisgd.htm
Wikipedia
about Whale watching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_watching
Bahamas Marine
Mammal Survey http://www.rockisland.com/~orcasurv/bahamas.htm
Bahamas Marine Mammal Survey, Tilloo Cay, Abaco
Bahamas
http://oii.net/ecology/eng/dolphin.html
Mote - Marine Mammals http://www.mote.org/research/cmmstr/mm/Welcome.phtml
Photos
underwater, dolphins, whales etc. (copyright protected)
Dolphins and
Whales in the World Mythology (POD People.Oceans.Dolphins) http://www.people-oceans-dolphins.com/Mythology/index.html
Oceanlight - lots of great photos of all kinds
of marine mammals http://www.oceanlight.com
Sharks
Mark
Carwardine/BBC about Shark Diving http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/features/95hap.shtml
see also
reviews
etc. about movie "Open Water" here
MML
Mote Marine Laboratory - CRS Center of Shark Research
http://www.mote.org/sharks/shark_research.html
Exploration
of sharks and rays - course (Florida & Paradise Island) http://www.mote.org/~rhueter/sharks/sharkcrs.phtml
Mark Heithaus - FIU Florida Int University http://www.fiu.edu/~heithaus/ResearchMain.htm
- e.g. "Large-Shark Hunting Habits Exposed by Crittercam" http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/crittercam2004.html
- National Geographic about Crittercam
Greenmarine
Educational Shark Diving http://www.greenmarine.com/
Sharkproject Dr. Erich Ritter http://www.sharkproject.org/engl/index.html
BBFS Bimini
Biological Field Station Sharklab Dr. Gruber (Miami Uni) http://www.miami.edu/sharklab/
Shark Attack,
Puerto Rico, the 1st documented in the Americas, http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarch/sharks.htm
+++Article
7.9.01 "Attack of the Shark Lobby" by William Saletan http://slate.msn.com/id/114958/
Peter
Brueggeman
Shark Diving in the Bahamas http://peterbrueggeman.com/bahama/
Enchanted
Learning, Infosheets about sharks http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/classification/Pristiophoriformes.shtml
Oceanlight - lots of great shark photos http://www.oceanlight.com
Manatee
US Geological Survey/Sirenia Project - Florida
Manatee Now Residing In The Bahamas http://www.sirenian.org/gina.html
more about the manatee
Robert Attrill about manatees http://www.bahamaswildlife.fsnet.co.uk/manatee.htm
Save the [Florida] manatee - e.g. manatee facts
http://www.savethemanatee.org/manfcts.htm
see also here
"Buzzy" by Jack Lagan
MML Mote Marine Laboratory - Manatee Research
- temporary pages, aceess via main menue http://www.mote.org/code/7/2/
- Captive
Manatee Research
- TempPage1
- TempPage2
Oceanlight - Great Manatee photos http://www.oceanlight.com/html/west_indian_manatee.html
and here
There's
a sea cow at the bottom
of my garden - Snorkelling with
manatees in Florida’s Crystal River by Mark Carwardine
the story is not available anymore online, I picked it from the
google-archive, (new) website of the author: http://www.markcarwardine.com/
I’ve just found the perfect house. It’s hidden
away on a bend of the Homosassa River, on Florida’s Gulf Coast,
and has water on three sides. It has a swimming pool, naturally, and a
beautiful wooden sun deck for lounging around in the Florida sunshine.
But, best of all, it has manatees at the bottom of the garden. |
Jellyfish
Jellyfish
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9608/jellyfish/
Paper about
Jellyfish (Fieldtrip) http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/fieldcourses02/PapersMarineEcologyArticles/finalpaperandsourcesJelly.html
Jellyfish
- Oceanlink "Ask a Scientist" http://oceanlink.island.net/ask/cnidaria.html#Anchor-21683
see also under
WHO
- acquit animals
Dolphins, dolphin therapy |
organizers of dolphin encounters, dolphin swimm see here
<>Links
to
sites
on Whales and Dolphins (general ) http://www.rockisland.com/~orcasurv/links.htm
David
Hoffmann's
website, infos about dolphins, links, sounds http://neptune.atlantis-intl.com/dolphins/index.html
- his stay with Earthwatch
BEACH
B.E.A.C.H.
Bahamas Education Association for Cetacean Health http://www.dolphinswims.com/press3.html
and http://www.dolphinswims.com/conserve.html
+++Articles
11.10.03 "Teachers win wandering whale treasure trunks" Nassau
Guardian
16.02.05 "Sharks are focus of
marine education poster contest" Nassau
Guardian
DCP Dolphin
Communication Projects - Bahamas http://www.dolphincommunicationproject.org/bahamas.asp
DCP Dolphin
Communication Projects - Bimini http://www.dolphincommunicationproject.org/Bimini.asp
DCP Links
to Dolphins http://www.dolphincommunicationproject.org/links.asp
The
Wild Dolphin Project (Atlantic spotted dolphin) http://www.wilddolphinproject.com/
Dolphins and the Possibility of Interspecies
Communication, by Denise L. Herzing (Wild Dolphin Project) http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/ARTICLES/aquatic.asp
Ocean 98,
Dolphins http://www.ocean98.org/ency107d.htm
Dolphinproject http://dolphinproject.org/
Oceanlight - lots of great dolphin photos http://www.oceanlight.com
Sarasota Dolphin Research Program http://www.sarasotadolphin.org/
HSUS Human Society of the United States
about SWTD "swim with the dolphin" http://www.hsus.org/ace/11737
about "mammals in captivity" http://www.hsus.org/ace/11727
++Discussion
"Dolphins in captivity for money-making" started
by Mellyz on 16.08.04 Fodors
Robert's comment about wild dolphins
Source: Fodor's Travel Forum, Author: Robert
Date: 02/28/2004 |
Dolphin
Therapy
+++Article
2.5.01 about "dolphin therapy" Kansas
City Star
Dolphinkids
Organisation http://www.dolphinkids.de/englisch/therapyE.html
(also in German)
Dolphinorg,
!! with links to other organizations
http://www.dolphins.org/
> Dolphin Child Therapy
XX 15.4.04
broken Ocean Therapy
http://www.oceantherapy.org/about.htm
CSI The
Cetacean Studies Institute http://www.linknet.com.au/dolphin/DAT2.html
Weather General |
see also weather
calculators (temp conversion etc.) - storm
intensity
see also here climate
change impact
best time to go? some comments
&
opinions here
Current
weather & forcast
!! Detailed
weather of all islands, click on island for 5-day-forcast http://www.bahamas.com/bahamas/weather.aspx
Wonderground,
18 places, current & forecast, C and/or F http://www.wunderground.com/global/bs.html
! Barometer
Bob (Weatherstation on Abaco) http://barometerbob.com/
(comment: http://oii.net/Journal/sep03/bob.shtml)
Bahamas
Department of Meteorology http://www.bahamasweather.org.bs/
NOOA various links to real time weather
data/images
(SST, satellite, radar etc. mostly hurricane related) http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqI.html
Water temperature (coarse) Caribbean http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/mamkwasf.htm
Ocean Surface Winds chart (NOAA/OSDPD) http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/icg/baha0wind.htm
SST Current Sea Surface Temp chart (NOAA/OSDPD)
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/icg/baha0sst.htm
SST Animated map, last 4 weeks Sea surface temp
(NOAA/CPC) http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/hurricane/12wksst.html
- Map
last 4 weeks - Map
last week
SST (present months) Sea surface temp
(Oceanweather
Inc.) http://www.oceanweather.com/data/
> choose "Sea surface temp" and then "Caribbean sea" or "S.E. U.S."
(or
the other way around...)
Mean values
(temperatures,
humidity, wind, rainfall and SST)
Climate http://www.bahamas.co.uk/about-bahamas/travel-tips/climate.asp
Temp
(in Fahrenheit), Humidity Wind and Rainfall http://www.bahamas-mon.com/weather_nf.html
Temp
(in Fahrenheit), Humidity Wind and Rainfall,
incl. temp. conversion http://www.bahamasvacationguide.com/weather.html
SST Sea surface temp - analysis (NOAA/NHC) http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsst.shtml
scroll down to "Monthly Mean Climatology Fields (1971-2000)" >
Atlantic
> click on [Month]
XX Temp
(in C)
and Wind (search for new link)
Miscellaneous
NOAA
Miami-South
Florida Satellite Imagery http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mia/newpage/cgi-bin/master.pl?suite=satl
NOAA Photo Library - Picture of Waterspouts in the Bahamas Islands http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea00307.htm
!USA
TODAY Weather SE US http://www.usatoday.com/weather/forecast/regional-southeast-temps.htm
Weather
Channel
SE US http://www.weather.com/maps/southeastus.html
Weather
Channel
satellites http://www.weather.com/maps/satelliteusnational.html
Satellite
passes over Bermudas BBSR (shows also Bahamas) http://www.bbsr.edu/satellite/todaysimgs.html
CNN Weather
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/NAmerica/sat.html
Washington
Post, Weather in Nassau http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/weather?intl=yes&area=CL;BA;NASSAU
University
of Hawaii Meteorology http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/satgroup.cgi?thumbs=on&group=g08main
Intellicast
- Weather Florida & Bahamas http://www.intellicast.com/Local/IntlLocalWide.asp?loc=mynn&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=Caribbean&product=IRSatellite&prodnav=none
Intellicast
Mainpage
http://www.intellicast.com/
Weather
Routing,
meteorological consulting, forecasts and route planning for commercial
fleets and private yachts http://www.wriwx.com
Bahamas Weather Stations
(use the station code to find info on the internet)
for all Bahamian ICAO-Codes see here
enter ICAO Code for local weather http://weather.hometownlocator.com/
Weather Stations (ID= ICAO code)
MYBS Alice Town, Bimini Bahamas 25-44N 079-18W
2
MYSM Cockburn Town, San Salvador Bahamas 24-03N
074-32W 3
MYGF
Freeport, Grand Bahama Bahamas 26-33N 078-42W 2
MYEG
George Town, Exuma Bahamas 23-30N 075-46W 2
MYIG Matthew Town, Inagua Bahamas 20-57N 073-41W
2
MYNN
Nassau Airport Bahamas 25-03N 077-28W 3
MYGW West End, Grand Bahama Bahamas 26-42N
078-58W
2
MYRD
Duncan Town, Ragged Island, 22.2° N 75.7° W
http://stormcarib.com/guide.htm
(Abaco, see here)
Severe Conditions / Hurricane Season |
Special page about Hurricanes Frances & Jeanne - Aug-Okt 2004
The
Islands
Of The Bahamas experience rain year-round; however, the months of May
through
October constitute the rainy season. The northern islands
normally
receive twice as much rain as the southern islands with heavy squalls
or
thundershowers which clear quickly. |
see also weather calculators (temp conversion etc.) - storm intensity
NOAA Main
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
!! NOAA Satellite
Imagery http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml
e.g. GEOS
Atlantic IR - GEOS
Storm Floater 1 - Loop
- Atlantic Views GOES-East
West.Atl -Loop
-
! Wunderground
Tropical http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/
> go past the sponsor page > scroll down to North Atlantic
! NRL
Monterey Marine Meteorology Division - Tropical Cyclone Page http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/
USA TODAY
Weather - Hurricanes http://www.usatoday.com/weather/huricane/whur0.htm
USA Today
Caribbean satellite picture http://www.usatoday.com/weather/satpic/wsatcar.htm
Caribbean
Hurricane Page - Local Reports on Tropical Storms http://stormcarib.com/
Weather
Channel
- Storm Watch http://www.weather.com/newscenter/stormwatch/
Hurricanecity, covers "the most active
storm/hurricane
in the area", somewhat flashy, good statistical data http://www.hurricanecity.com
NASA Hurricane Science - Satellite pictures http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/Hurricane_Science.html
Tropical Storm / Hurricane Forecasts
! Colorado
State Uni - Dr. Gray's Tropical Storm Forecast http://hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu/Forecasts/
Benfield Hazard
Research Centre - Seasonal Forecasts &
Windstorms
http://forecast.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/for_hurr.html
Hurricane
Message Board and Reports
! Caribbean Hurricane Network Local
Reports The Bahamas http://stormcarib.com/
-
1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002-
2003
- 2004 -
2005 - 2006
- 2007 - 2008 -
2009 - 2010
Caribbean Hurricane Network - Bulletin Board
http://stormcarib.com/help/
- Bahamas starting
14.9.04
- Bahamas
before
14.9.04 (Frances and older)
Dabahamianting, during Frances: provided links
to TV/radio stations and !news
clips http://www.dabahamianting.com
see also Geographia/GBI
board and the Out Island
message
boards (Eleuthera, Briland, Abaco)
damage reports for Abaco also on Hope
Town Fire Rescue website, see here
Bahamian online http://bahamian.dynamohosting.net/forum/index.php
> General Forum
XX not active in 2004) Bahamas-mon
Hurricane Center (Message Board)
http://bahamas-mon.com/bahamaforum/hurricane/index.html
(UN OCHA) Reliefweb docs pertaining to Bahamas
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/ByCountry/Bahamas?OpenDocument&StartKey=Bahamas&Expandview
(UN OCHA) Reliefweb Disaster response information
on current natural disasters http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND
National & regional desaster relief organizations
+++Articles
16.09.04 "Committee of bankers
appointed
to secure funds for disaster relief" Nassau
Guardian
10.01.05 "Caribbean disaster agency in negotiations for regional
early warning tsunami system" Nassau
Guardian
18.01.05 "Are we prepared? [for a desaster]" Nassau
Guardian
BRCS Bahamas Red Cross Society http://www.bahamasredcross.org/
+++Articles
06.09.04 "Red Cross says 'We're still broke'"
Nassau
Guardian
16.09.04 "Promises, Promises - Red Cross: Some
'donors' balking" Nassau
Guardian
24.09.04 "Red Cross more prepared for Jeanne"
Nassau
Guardian
Grand Bahama Red Cross Society, P.O.Box F- 42534, Freeport, Grand Bahama, phone # 1-262-352-7163
NEMA National
Emergency Management Agency (no website yet)
+++Article 21.08.04 "U.S. and Bahamas
join forces - Construction of a disaster centre set for next year" Nassau
Guardian
Bahamas Hurricane Relief website http://www.bahamashurricanerelief.com/- some comments to it: Geographia/GBI Board
CDERA Caribbean Desaster Emergency Response
Agency
http://www.cdera.org/index.php
(see also for RRM, CDRU)
CDERA
Study: Impact of Severe Weather Events on Tourism in the Bahamas http://www.cdera.org/conf/20030724confcc/20030724confccbahamas.pdf
Pan American Disaster Response Unit (PADRU) http://www.padru.cruzroja.org/index.html
(spanish only)
Florida
Emergency
Management Weather Page http://www.floridadisaster.org/weather_page.htm
FEMA Federal
Emergency Management Agency (US)
http://www.fema.gov/
... more hurricane related
links
NOOA various links to real time weather
data/images
(SST, satellite, radar etc. mostly hurricane related) http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqI.html
NOAA
Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB) http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/radiofax.shtml
The Disaster
Center (various info and links, unofficial) http://www.disastercenter.com/
WRAL OnLine
- Hurricane Tracking (local TV Station US Eastcoast) http://www.wral.com/hurricanes/
Central
Florida
Hurricane Center http://flhurricane.com/
Intellicast,
Miami, Florida Radar Loop http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalWide.asp?loc=kmia&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=RadarImagery&product=RadarLoop&prodnav=none
CAMEX3 (NASA) Andros Ground
Site (1998) http://physics.umbc.edu/~mcmillan/PROJECTS/CAMEX3/Andros/
- CAMEX3
main - CAMEX official
Colorado State Uni - the Tropical Meteorology
Project - Tropical Storm Forecast http://hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu/Forecasts/
Cruise Ships - info about change of schedules due to storms http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/blog.aspx
Hurricane statistics and history
Past hurricanes with devastating impact on
the Bahamas (1919-)
(this list is not complete)
02.10.1866 H4 nonamed, Nassau direct hit
08.09.1883 H2 nonamed, Nassau direct hit
08.09.1919 H2 Atlantic-Gulf Hurricane, Exumas
Sun
Sentinel
26.07.1926 H4 nonamed, Nassau direct hit
17.09.1926 H4 Great Miami Hurricane Sun
Sentinel
09.1928 San Felipe-Okeechobee Hurricane ++Article
"Florida's forgotten storm: The Hurricane of 1928" Sun
Sentinel - and Sun
Sentinel
09.1935 Florida Keys Labor Day Hurricane,
Southern
Bahamas Sun
Sentinel
10.1954 Hurricane Hazel
09.1960 Hurricane Donna Sun
Sentinel
09.1965 Hurricane Betsy Sun
Sentinel
08.1992 Hurricane Andrew - Sun
Sentinel - NOAA Report on Andrew http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1992andrew.html
09.1999 Hurricane Floyd
09.2004 Hurricane Frances - San Salvador,
Eleuthera,
Abaco, Freeport
Wikipedia map http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Global_tropical_cyclone_tracks-edit2.jpg "This map shows the tracks of all Tropical cyclones which formed worldwide from 1985 to 2005. The points show the locations of the storms at six-hourly intervals and use the color scheme shown to the right from Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale." - click on map to see higher resolution
Unisys weather, Atlantic Tropical Storm
Tracking
by Year (1851-) http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/
Terrapin Atlantic Hurricane Archive (1886-) http://weather.terrapin.com/hurricane/index.jsp
> "Atlantic Storm per Year" and "Storms by Caribbean Location" Plot!
Weatheronline UK http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/storm_atl.htm
- storm tracks, tables, graphs of past storms (2000-) etc.
Stormcarib, climatology Caribbean, past storms
(1851-) http://stormcarib.com/climatology/BHMS_map_bathy.htm
Wunderground http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/
- map with all hurricanes in 1 year and path of each hurricane
individually
(1886-)
Hurricanecity, historical & statistical
data
http://www.hurricanecity.com/Rank.htm
> search table for Bahamas, click on place for details
NOAA Graph: Mean occurence of named storms (1944
- 1997) http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/ns_mean.gif
NOAA Hurricane History (1900-) http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml
Sun Sentinel - South Florida's eight worst storms
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/sfl-aug2001hurricanehistory.gallery
Jay Barnes, Florida's Hurricane story (book
excerpts,
1928, 1935) http://www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/hurricanes/fl_foreword.html
Basics about hurricanes
storm intensity scale see here
NASA
Hurricane
Science http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/Hurricane_Science.html
e.g. "Track Frances' path with animations from orbiting spacecraft."
+ GOES / + MODIS / + TRMM
! NASA
Hurricane
Science animation "where hurricanes are born / life span of Hurricane Isabel
(2003)"
- http://www.nasa.gov/mpg/64546main_Genesis_NASA%20WebV_1.mpg
start page
"This image shows where hurricanes are born. Click image to see the life span of Hurricane Isabel. The animation follows 2003's Hurricane Isabel from its surprising birthplace in the Ethiopian Highlands of East Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean, and to the United States. Note how Isabel gains size and speed over the warm waters of the Atlantic."
NASA Turns Hurricane Ivan
(Sept 2004) Inside Out http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/Ivan_inside_out.html
Hurricane Ivan's 'CAT' Scan ( 3-D look inside Hurricane Ivan, structure of rainfall inside the storm)
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/IVAN_TRMM_9.15.html
NOAA FAQ
Hurricanes, Typhoons, Tropical Cyclones http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html
about EWRC
Eyewall replacement circle http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/D8.html
! A
practical guide to .... hurricane tracking and plotting, conversion,
scales,
advisories' abbreviations etc. http://stormcarib.com/guide.htm
Hurricane
basic information USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/weather/huricane/whbasics.htm
Hurricane
Science Index USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/weather/huricane/whursci.htm
NOAA Blank tracking charts http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
NOAA/CPS about MJO (Madden-Julian Oscillation) or ISO (Intraseasonal Oscillation) http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/intraseasonal_faq.html
Tropical rainfall exhibits strong variability on sub-seasonal time scales, often cycling over a period of 30-60 days. These cycles are called "intraseasonal oscillations", "Madden-Julian Oscillations", "MJO", "30-60 day oscillations" or "30-60 day waves". source: vikki.french |
! Meteorology
Education & Training - Hurricanes
Hurricane Science and Safety for Students -
interactive,
tests etc. http://meted.ucar.edu/hurrican/strike/
Full program http://www.meted.ucar.edu/topics_hurricane.php
Origin of hurricanes "Depending on the
time of year, tropical storms and hurricanes develop in different areas
of the tropical North Atlantic."
weather.com http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/tropical/origins.html
FEMA (map) http://www.fema.gov/kids/hu_orig.htm
deutsch
Hurrikane
- allgemein http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrikan
Spiegel
online - Video zur Entstehung von Hurricanes http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-20833.html
Spiegel
online - Artikel zu obigen Video http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,503540,00.html
03.09.07 "Hurrikan Felix - Binnen Stunden zum Monstersturm"
ZAMG http://www.zamg.ac.at/wetter/sat_bilder/wirbelstuerme/
Kurzfilme mit Satellitenbildern ausgewählter Wirbelstürme (ZAMG Zentralanstalt
für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Wien)
Hamburger
Bildungsserver Entstehung und Zugweg eines Hurrikans ("Unterricht mit
digitalen Medien") http://www.hamburger-bildungsserver.de/welcome.phtml?unten=/klima/klimafolgen/extreme/hurrikan/entstehung.html inkl.
Grafiken
"Mittlere Zugbahnen atlantischer Hurrikane im Monat September" und
(weltweite) "Verbreitung tropischer Wirbelstürme"
Lehrer
Online http://www.lehrer-online.de/hurrikan.php?show_complete_article=1&sid=16495934340811513121915221522040
Naturgewalten
- Hurrikane http://www.naturgewalten.de/hurr.htm
(der Autor beschäftige sich privat und beruflich mit Naturgewalten)
Survival
- Hurrikane http://survival.4u.org/katastrophen/hurrikan.htm
private Seite, gute Zusammenfassung
RAOnline
-Hurrikane http://www.raonline.ch/edu_hurrindex01.html
(private Seite, als Unterrichtsmaterial gedacht)
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