Research and Studies Archives

New Water Analyses Show a Large Drop in Coliform Contamination - A new study by CEA has shown that contamination of ground water at Akumal has dropped by fifty percent, or more, since 1995.
A Manual of the Operation & Maintenance of Constructed Wetlands - The following guidelines will help you to take care of your system.
Akumal Coral Ecology Project: Continuing Studies on Coral Disease in Akumal - by Lucy Jack
Centro Ecológico Akumal - 10th Anniversary Research Symposium, May 19 & 20, 2004
Constructed Wetland Planting Guide - By caring for your wetland plants, you will magnify the level of treatment.
Constructed Wetlands Links - Useful links to constructed wetland sites, organizations and government groups.
Contamination at Night - Akumal, Q. Roo, November 2003
Coral Disease and Fish and Connectivity - Strategy planning at Akumal
Cruise Ship Damages Reef off Puerto Aventuras - by David Nuñez
Development in Akumal: Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained? - CEA is working with the municipal and state authorities to try to change the way Akumal will be developed.
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) - This disease affects a large variety of marine turtle species.
Future Bleak for Caribbean Reef - by John F. Bruno, Laura E. Petes, C. Drew Harvell and Annaliese Hettinger.
Geoscientists met in Merida, Yucatan on March 31 through April 3 - And in Akumal, with CEA Director Charles Shaw, Ph.D.
Guias de las Plantas de los Humedales Creados - Cuidando sus plantas, magnificara el nivel de tratamiento.
Informe de Actividades del 2004 - del Programa de Protección, Conservación e Investigación en Tortugas Marinas de Centro Ecológico Akumal
It's Not Too Late to Save Our Oceans - by Leon Penetta, in The Washington Post
La Manual de Operacion Y Mantanamiento de los Humedales Creados - Un humedal creado es un sistema natural – sencillo, viviente y cambiante que nos dan la oportunidad de ver y tratar con nuestros
Orchids Bloom at CEA - Myrmecophylla tibicinis
PEW Oceans Commission Follow-up - A list of sources for state statistics
PEW Oceans Commission – Press Conference - Media advisory of press conference to unveil its report
PEW Oceans Commission - Commissioners - List of commissioners
Plan de Ordenamiento Ecológico Territorial de la Riviera Maya - New regulations to protect the turtles.
POET Cancun - Tulum Corridor - Maps of development.
Public Health, December 2003 - David Nuñez gives a few examples in which environmental degradation is resulting in serious threats not only to our own health,
Report on the 2004 Sea Turtle Program - Protection, Conservation and Research Program of Centro Ecológico Akumal 2004
Research at Akumal - Many well-known and highly experienced researchers have come to Akumal.
Salvar a las Palmas - Amarillamineto letal
Save the Palms - Treatment for Lethal Yellowing
Study: Only 10 Percent of Big Ocean Fish Remain - by Marsha Walton, CNN Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Sustainable Forestry in the Selva Maya - by Kate Riley
Swimming with Turtles - by Sheldon I. Apteker
The Biogeography and Genetic Diversity of Searocket - A research report for CEA by Charles Willis, Harvard University
The Declaration of Concerned Scientists - Results from 10 years of study on the coast of Quintana Roo.
The Effect of Hurricane Dean and Other Disturbance Factors on Akumal Bays - by Miguel Angel Maldonado
The Role of Wetlands - by Charles E. Shaw, Ph.D., Geologist
The Use and Efficiency of Constructed Wetlands - The Use and Efficiency of Constructed Wetlands in the Riviera Maya
Vegetarian Spiders? - by Christopher Meehan, Villanova University
When the Lights Turn On: Turtle Conservation on Akumal’s Beaches - by Ivan Caballero


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