Historical series of oceanographic data in the Vigo Estuary and adjacent platform.

The goals of this campaign are framed within the objectives of the overall project 'Radial Profunda de Canarias', being the experimental cruise of the proposal. Thus, this cruise will help to: • Determine the structure of the current when it reaches the Canary Islands, mass transport, heat and nutrients and interannual variability. • Characterize the different modes of variability of heat and mass transport in easternorth atlantic subtropical gyre. • To determine the correlation between heat and mass transport with the NAO atmospheric and oceanic index. • Characterize the annual cycle in the physical conditions of the surface layers and mixture to where the seasonal cycle is significant, relating it to the meteorological forcings. • Characterization of changes in water masses, mainly in the North Atlantic Central Water (NACW), in Antarctic Atlantic Intermediate Water (AAIW) in Mediterranean Water (MW) and bottom waters of the Canary Basin, in based on temperature, salinity, nutrients and oxygen.

Main targets: · ESTOC Observatory service - FixO3. · ESTOC time-series - Winter sampling. · Coastal observatory sampling. · Time Serie for environmental control of the PLOCAN test bed.

Main targets: · ESTOC Observatory service - FixO3. · ESTOC time-series - Fall sampling. · Coastal observatory sampling. · Time Serie for environmental control of the PLOCAN test bed.

The objective of the project RADIALES, started in 1990, aims at “understanding and modelling the response of the marine ecosystem to the sources of temporal variability in oceanographic and planktonic components, focusing on those factors and processes affecting biological production and potentially altering the ecosystem services”. This project is the oldest multidisciplinary ocean observation initiative still active in Spain.

The overall purpose in the planned ESMAREC 0514 survey is the study of the structure and dynamics of complex deep ecosystems systems of the Le Danois (El Cachucho) bank and Avilés canyon system. In this sense include activities to: • Estimation of the spatial distribution of hard bottom habitats and environmental features, with special priority by the classified 1170-reefs EU Habitat directive. • Estimating the abundance and spatial distribution of epibenthic communities on rocky habitats and cold water coral reefs. • Aim of the methodology to monitor the conservation status of vulnerable habitats and their biological communities through the application of photogrammetric techniques in fixed sampling stations. • Sedimentary characterization of the soft bottom habitats of the AMP El Cachucho.

Historical series of oceanographic data in the Vigo Estuary and adjacent platform.

· Ampliación de la formación de los técnicos, en especial en el uso de rosetas/CTD, SBL y sondas. · Familiarización de los técnicos con el buque Ángeles Alvariño y su equipamiento. · Comprobar el funcionamiento de los equipos electrónicos/informáticos del buque. · Realización de los ejercicios de seguridad mensuales, incluyendo nocturnos, que se intercalarán entre las pruebas de equipos.

The goals of this survey are framed within the educational activity of the Faculty of Marine Sciences ULPGC to give the possibility of a complete oceanographic study (Physical , Chemical , Biological and Geological Survey ) in the south and north-east of Gran Canaria students of Degree, Bachelor and Master , the convergence zone between the area and the trail of the island and the presence of permanent rotation south of it. Thus this survey will contribute to a comprehensive training for students in oceanographic study of an oceanic region may  Determine the structure of water bodies, the effects of convergence and divergence to the passage of the Canary Current across the channels between islands, mass transport , and nutrients.  Determine the distribution of chemical species , including oxygen and carbon dioxide system and quantify the transport of CO2 in the atmosphere-ocean study area , the effect of micro and mesoscale phenomena in their distribution.  To characterize the effect of the wake , turns and other mesoscale structures in the distribution of species of phytoplankton and zooplankton.

The aim of the cruise is to show students of the Master in Oceanography of the Vigo University, the various techniques performed on Oceanographic vessels used to study water colum, bottom sediments and zoobenthos.