The CIIEMAD and IPN work on establishing Climate Change Observatory in Sian Ka’an
Specialists from the Interdisciplinary Center for Research and Studies on Environment and Development (CIIEMAD), from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), are working on the establishment of a Climate Change Observatory on the coasts of Quintana Roo.
The experts will study environmental and meteorological parameters and the evaluation of the coastline,
among others, to face the challenges of climate change in the region, explained Norma Patricia Muñoz
Sevilla, researcher at CIIEMAD.
In a statement, the educational institution stressed that because of its geographical location, Quintana
Roo is vulnerable to natural phenomena.
In addition, he added, man destroyed the dunes or mangrove areas, which serve as protection or nesting,
growth and development of species of high economic value, as well as natural systems for water purification.
Muñoz Sevilla informed that the Climate Change Observatory will be located in Pez Maya, Sian Ka'an Biosphere
Reserve, Quintana Roo, a property with 25 hectares and three kilometers of beach for coastal, marine and
wetland conservation.
In this space, specialists will take control of a series of environmental, meteorological, physico-chemical
parameters, water quality, evolution of the coastline and geochemical evaluation of the mangrove zone, among
others.
The also president of the Climate Change Council within the framework of the National System of Climate
Change explained that the entity is a highly productive region from the point of view of ecosystems, as well
as being part of the Mesoamerican reef, the most important in the world after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
However, he also stressed that it is vulnerable to global warming and natural phenomena that are becoming
more intense, as happened with Hurricane Gilberto, in September 1988, where 50 percent of Cancun suffered
serious damage to its infrastructure and beaches.
In recent years, the issue of the oceans has gained strength. Mexico is a favored country with the presence
of two oceans, a single gulf that is the one of California or Mar de Cortes and the Gulf of Mexico, shared
with the United States and Cuba, as well as a portion of the Caribbean Sea, a situation that forces us to
protect, conserve and make sustainable use of these large marine ecosystems.
This project is related to another meteorological station installed in Sinaloa eight years ago, which will
allow to know the interrelation between the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea and the North
Pacific, since they are bodies of water that behave very different due to their location geographical and
geomorphological and vocation characteristics.
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