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22 Luis was one of the FAE volunteers who worked with the CDF meteorological station for six month periods. His job in climatology helped both the scientists with their research and the community people in their daily lives. Charles Darwin Foundation Luis Quishpe ‘I learned the secrets of Galapagos through its climate’ I visited to work jointly with the Foundation. Like everyone in the Air Galapagos for the first time in 2000, when I was assigned to Baltra to do climatology at the airport. However, I did not learn as much about Galapagos then as I did when I came back in 2006 Force, I had to choose my specialization, and I decided on meteorology. As a meteorologist, I was able to come as a volunteer to help at the meteorological station the Foundation has in Puerto Ayora. Even though I had been doing synoptic observations and climatology for years, it was not until I worked at the Sta- tion that I realized the full importance of this kind of work. I was always focused only on meteorology as applied to aeronautics. But when I went back in 2006, I discovered that meteorology fits into other activities. For example, it is used to monitor vegetation. I was sent to Santiago Island and there I could see exactly how the plants reacted when there was little rainfall.
The data we volunteers gathered are very important for the scientists’ work, but also for farmers and the community in general. With the information that gets processed at the Foundation stations, the people involved in science work out relationships and make comparisons to figure out how the weather affects plants, animals, and the sea. It is also used for everyone’s benefit, for example, to know what will happen with the Dengue mosquito depending on one or another weather condition, or whether El Niño is coming or not. This is a quiet kind of work, but it is very worthwhile. Annual report 2006 Luis Quishpe Meteorological Station • The CDF has had an agreement with the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) since 2002 for two volunteer FAE meteorological observers to monitor information for six months at the Academy Bay meteorological station in Puerto Ayora. • The CDF has two stations on Santa Cruz: Puerto Ayora and Bellavista. It also has two pluviometers on San Cristóbal and Isabela. The CDF stations are networked and share information with the World Meteorological Organization. • The information gathered is also shared with INHAMI and INOCAR, the Provincial Office of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Health. The meteorological station at Puerto Ayora is located at Academy Bay, where water temperature and other parameters are measured. 23
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