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Rapid: Assessing Tsunami Impacts On The Benthic Community Of Robinson Crusoe Island, Richard Wahle, Peter Petraitis May 2012

Rapid: Assessing Tsunami Impacts On The Benthic Community Of Robinson Crusoe Island, Richard Wahle, Peter Petraitis

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This RAPID project will assess the subtidal ecological impacts of the tsunami that struck Robinson Crusoe Island on 27 February 2010 with support from the Biological Oceanography Program and the Office of International Science and Engineering/Americas. It will take advantage of baseline data collected as part of an ongoing Chilean research project. Robinson Crusoe Island belongs to the Juan Fernandez archipelago, some 600 km west of the coast of Chile in the southeast Pacific. The island group is unique for its high level of marine and terrestrial endemism, including a fishery for the prized Robinson Crusoe Island lobster, Jasus frontalis. …