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Environment

Xylem Instruments To Monitor Coral Reefs

by Marc S. Reisch
May 27, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 21

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Credit: Xylem Analytics
A Xylem monitoring buoy off Florida’s coast.
Instrument maker Xylem Analytics has received a contract to build five marine buoys  (shown) that will measure, record, and transmit water quality and meteorological data from coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea.
Credit: Xylem Analytics
A Xylem monitoring buoy off Florida’s coast.

Instrument maker Xylem Analytics has received a contract to build five marine buoys that will measure, record, and transmit water quality and meteorological data from coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea. The buoys, to be deployed later this year, will be components of a $600,000 Caribbean climate-change monitoring project funded by the European Union and the Global Climate Change Alliance.

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