NOAA in the Caribbean Partner Meetings
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2026 Annual Partners Meeting
Recordings:
- Opening Plenary: Eugenio Piñeiro Soler (May 27, 2026)
- Our Future - Youth Presentations (May 27, 2026)
- Ridge to Reef, Coral Restoration, and Coral Bleaching (May 27, 2026)
- ESA, EFH, and Coral Conservation across NOAA (May 27, 2026)
- Closing Plenary: Yaritza Rivera Torres (May 29, 2026)
Tools Cafe and Tabletop Exercises (TTX) (May 28, 2026):- NOAA in the Caribbean 2025 Partner meeting (virtual)
- Agenda
- Recordings:
- Day 1: History of NOAA in the Caribbean Community Group
- Day 2: Presentations: Habitat Restoration and Coral (by 1:12)
- Day 3: Panels: Community Focus, Pollution (by 1:06) and Data/Tools (by 2:09)
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2024 Partner meeting (virtual). This year's partners meeting was focused on ecosystem restoration activities in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and international Caribbean.
- Agenda
- Recording
- Speaker contact information
- Presentations
- Dr. Dinorah Chacin: Coral Reef Restoration overview in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Jendahye Antoine: Mangrove Education in the US Virgin Islands: A Unique Perspective Through the Youth Ocean Explorers Summer Program
- Dr. Kristin Wilson Grimes: GRROE USVI Mangroves: Growing Research, Restoration, Outreach and Education of USVI Mangroves
- Dr. Nicole Angeli: Wetlands and other protected areas management in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Dr. Nilda Jimenez: Emergency Response Strategy to the invasive coral of the Xeniidae family, a new threat for coral restoration and Puerto Rico Coral restoration projects
- Nicole Pillot: Assessing Jobos Bay (Puerto Rico) mangrove wetlands extension, shoreline condition, and rehabilitation/restoration feasibility after Hurricanes Maria and Irma impacts (2017)
- Dr. Robert Mayer: Using the Ecological Restoration of Dunes and Mangroves to Improve Coastal Community and Habitat Resilience in Loiza, Puerto Rico
- Aric Bickel: SECORE in the Caribbean
- Dr. Elizabeth Shaver: Coral Restoration in the Caribbean
- Dr. Natalie Boodram: Participatory approaches to ecosystem restoration in the Caribbean
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2023 Partner meeting (virtual)
- Agenda
- Recording
- Speaker Contact Information
- Presentations
- Bowden: Climate change projections with a focus on resolving the US Caribbean Islands
- Chardón-Maldonado: Impacts of a Changing Climate on Ecosystem and Biodiversity in the U.S. Caribbean
- Gardner: Fostering Sustainable Development in the Caribbean
- Hibbert: Sargassum - A Public Health and Environmental Emergency
- Castro: First Steps Toward Sustainable Management of Sargassum in the Dominican Republic
- Ebanks: Sargassum Management in Jamaica - A National Response Strategy
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2022 Partner meeting (virtual) - CANCELLED because of Hurricane Fiona
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2021 Partner Meeting
- Agenda
- Recording (with English and Spanish subtitles)
- Presentations
- NOAA in the Caribbean Partner Meeting 2021 Intro
- LaFeir: Making Equity Central to NOAA Work
- Waddell: Hazard Mitigation Planning
- Mendez-Lazaro: Climate and Public Health
- Cruz-Arroyo: NRCS-Role in Climate and Equity
- Bideau: Fate Tracking SCTLD
- Martinez-Sanchez: Citizen Science During Drought
- Olivares: Puerto Rico Water Quality Monitoring
- Wilson Grimes: Mangrove Citizen Science
- NOAA in the Caribbean Community Webinar 2020
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2019 Partner Meeting
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2017 Partner Meeting
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2016 Partner Meeting
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2014 Partner Meeting
- NOAA in the Caribbean 2012 Partner Meeting