The ANTARES regional network is composed of coastal time-series stations located around Latin America (www.antares.ws). The main goal is to study long-term changes due to both climate and anthropogenic effects, as well as for ocean color purposes of satellite match-ups and algorithm development.

The EPEA (Estación Permanente de Estudios Ambientales) time series station was started in 2000 and since 2003 belongs to ANTARES (www.antares.ws), a network of Latin American time series stations whose main goal is the study of long-term changes in coastal ecosystems to distinguish those due to natural variability from those due to external perurbations (anthropogenic effects).Different research groups at the INIDEP (the National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development of Argentina) sample at the EPEA station, monitoring chemical, environmental and bio-optical variables as well as the bacterioplankton, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and the icthyoplankton communities. EPEA station is located on the Argentine shelf (38°28'S, 57°41'W), 27.0 nautical miles from Mar del Plata city and 13.5 nautical miles from the coast and has a depth of 50m. EPEA is characterized by a temperate regime, with annual sea surface temperatures between 10°C and 21°C and salinity values ranging between 33.5 and 34.1. Occasionally the site can receive less salty waters coming from the North, influenced by the La Plata River, driving salinity values to less than 31.0. Its oceanographic regime is described as the transition between high salinity coastal waters to the medium shelf (Guerrero et al., 1997).

Antares Cartagena station is located 10 km offshore, across from the Cartagena Bay/Caribbean Sea at 75° 36'W, 10° 22'N in Cartagena, Colombia. Activities in the station are coordinated by the General Maritime Directorate for the Caribbean Oceanographic and Hydrographic Research Center (CIOH).Activities at Antares Cartagena Station started in 2008 when the CIOH joined the ANTARES monitoring network (see http://www.antares.ws/?p=station.php&st=7). The CIOH has measured in situ CTD temprature, pressure, salinity, oxygen and fluorescence. Additionally, water samples are taken at discrete depths with Niskin bottles and temperature, salinity, oxygen and pH are measured through multiparameter probe.Assays for determining chlorophyll, planktonic community analysis, determination of nutrients (nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, orthophosphates and silicates) and SST, are performed in CIOH's laboratory which is accredited under NTC ISO / IEC 17025:2001 for physic-chemical analysis of marine and estuarine waters.

Measurements made along the African Coast by a North Atlantic Transect (ANT) program under the US-funded GEOTRACES program.

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