Coastal Monitoring

Coastal monitoring in the three participating countries to monitor pesticides runoff to the Caribbean Sea.

The Coastal Monitoring Programme deals the establishment of a baseline to identify and quantify the presence of pesticides residue in the coastal zones.

A training workshop was held in Costa Rica in June 2008 in which participants from the project countries participated. The course focused on sampling, preparation and analysis of organic pollutants in environmental samples (course manual).

List of pesticides of interest to the project.

Coastal Monitoring Manual produced by the project.

Colombia	Costa Rica	Nicaragua
The implementing agency for coastal monitoring is the Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (INVEMAR). Plan (Spanish)	The implementing agency for coastal monitoring is the Centro de Investigación en Contaminación Ambiental y el Centro de Investigaciones Marinas y Limnología de la Universidad de Costa Rica (CICA-CIMAR). Plan (Spanish)	The implementing agency for coastal monitoring is the Centro para la Investigación en Recursos Acuáticos de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (CIRA/UNAN). Plan (Spanish)

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November 2009

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