Successful Deployment of Marine Environmental Buoy Observation System at Pearl River Estuary
On July 8, 2024, the Center for Ocean Research team in Hong Kong and Macau (CORE) deployed a marine environmental buoy observation system in the waters near Gaolan Port in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province.
This buoy is a mounted real-time marine environmental monitoring system. There are three layers of physical-biological-chemical multi-parameter monitoring sensors installed on the mounting chain: surface, middle, and bottom. This buoy monitoring system can continuously collect and transmit in-situ meteorological, ocean current, hydrological, nutrient, dissolved oxygen, and other data in real time. By combining data from large-scale regional survey vessels and numerical models, a three-dimensional real-time ocean monitoring and forecasting system will be constructed to monitor and predict the formation, maintenance, and dissipation processes of marine eutrophication and related seabed hypoxia phenomena.
In the future, we will conduct regular maintenance on the buoy, and we believe that the observational data will provide valuable on-site research information for marine studies in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau region.
