Wilberto Pacheco

• Bachelor of oceanography
• University of Antioquia

The sea surface microlayer is the ocean–atmosphere interface (≤ 1000 μm thick), is ubiquitous on the ocean surface, and is characterized by the accumulation of surfactants that influence the exchange of climate-relevant gases, such as CO2. This study on the sea surface microlayer in the Gulf of Urabá, Caribbean Sea, intended to determine the influe...

Satellite observations of chlorophyll-a have been evaluated in the northern part of Caribbean Colombia but with little information in the southern part. We used twenty years of merged multi-satellite chlorophyll and wind information with fourteen years of sea surface temperature, (SST) and ten years of ocean currents. Missing Chl-a and SST data wer...

Estuaries are highly diverse ecosystems that occur at the interface between land and sea and thus possess a high degree of environmental variation over short spatial and temporal scales. The Gulf of Urabá (1800 km 2; mean depth ~ 40 m) is a semiclosed estuarine area located in the southwestern part of the Caribbean Sea (South America). This large c...

Para contrarrestar la propagación de la enfermedad pandémica del Covid-19, el gobierno de Colombia decretó un periodo de cuarentena de marzo 24 a julio 1 de 2020, que obligó al cese de las actividades turísticas y al cierre de los principales destinos turísticos del Caribe colombiano: Santa Marta, Cartagena y San Andrés. Durante este periodo se per...

The gulf of Uraba is a semiclosed and estuarine area located in the southwestern part of the Caribbean Colombia (South America). This large coastal- estuarine ecosystem opérate as biogeochemical reactor due to features examples high nutrients concentrations (NO3:_; NO2:_; NH4:_; PO4:_;), high chl-a (>_mg/L). Also, blooms of toxic algae mostly Pseud...