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The South American Climate Change (SACC) Consortium is an initiative sponsored by the IAI through the Cooperative Research Networks (CRN) Program.

The GENERAL PURPOSE of the SACC Consortium is:

To coordinate and enhance human and institutional resources in South American countries, in order to advance the understanding of the coupled effects of global change and climate variability on the oceanic, atmospheric and terrestrial ecosystems of the Western South Atlantic region.
SACC Human Dimensions Workshop
Posted on 13 Jun 2009
Links between the environment and society discussed during a Workshop held at FURG
Southwest Atlantic Greenhouse
Posted on 24 Apr 2009
An article by Alejandro Bianchi and co-authors published in Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) reports on the annual sea-air CO2 balance based on data from 22 cruises.
SHORT COURSE ON ESTUARINE HYDRODYNAMICS
Posted on 17 Apr 2009
The 8th SACC Short Course by Dr. A. Valle-Levinson, was held at FURG 9-18 March 2009. The course was attended by eleven graduate students from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay.
Reoport from R/V POLARSTERN
Posted on 25 Mar 2009
R/V POLARSTERN sampling the southern Patagonia Sea. The photography taken by Carlos Mejia shows the beginning of a CTD cast in the Magellan Strait.
jellyfish
Posted on 11 Dec 2008
Agustin Schiariti and co-authors have published the article entitled "Life cycle of the jellyfsh Lychnorhiza lucerna (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae)" in Marine Biology.

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Where does zooplankton feed?
Posted on 23 Mar 2008
Juan Ugaz is a doctoral stundent at Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil, studying zooplankton concentrations in subsurface chlorophyll maximum layers off southeastern Brazil.
Drifting away...
Posted on 19 Feb 2008
Surface drifters provide the best direct observations of the surface circulation on a global scale. Uriel Zajaczkovski is using drifters to estimate horizontal diffusivities in the South Atlantic, and their relation to the general circulation.
News from Tallahassee
Posted on 09 Jan 2008
Jose Luiz Azevedo, a graduate student at FURG, Brazil and SACC Fellow, is visiting Dr. Doron Nof at Florida State University to carry out research related to his PhD thesis.

Reoport from R/V POLARSTERN
Posted on 25 Mar 2009
R/V POLARSTERN sampling the southern Patagonia Sea. The photography taken by Carlos Mejia shows the beginning of a CTD cast in the Magellan Strait.
Ocean Mixing
Posted on 09 Feb 2009
R/V Roger Revelle is conducting a purposeful tracer experiment in the SE Pacific as part of the DIMES project. For more information follow: http://dimes.ucsd.edu/
Valdes Front survey
Posted on 21 Dec 2008
R/V Capitan Canepa from Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero has completed a survey of the Valdes Front. The Valdes front, the interface between well mixed coastal waters and stratified mid-shelf waters, is a productive hotspot in the northern Patagonia summers.
Chasing coccolitophores in Patagonia
Posted on 14 Dec 2008
R/V Roger Revelle is sailing in good weather conditions on the Patagonia shelf searching for coccolitophores. Silvia Romero (SHN/UBA/AR) and Daniel Valla (undergraduate student UBA/AR, photo) are participating in the expedition.
Acoustic jelly fish survey
Posted on 02 Nov 2007
Hermes Mianzan and Marcelo Acha (INIDEP) visited the Dauphin Island Sea Lab to conduct a survey of jelly fish in collaboration with William Graham. Increased jelly fish abundance, reported in several marine ecosystems is though to be a consequence of overfishing.

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