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 general objective of the RADMED-DOS project is the multidisciplinary monitoring of the platform and deep waters of the Mediterranean, the peninsular coast and the Balearic Islands.
Historical series of oceanographic data in the Coruña Estuary and adjacent platform.
Bathymetry and seismic work on the coast of the island of Menorca (Baleares Islands)
Get abundance indices of groundfish demersales species. Get the size structure of commercially exploited stocks. Collection of biological material. Prospecting deep zones.Get physical-chemical parameters of water in the study area.
Historical series of oceanographic data in the Vigo Estuary and adjacent platform.
Acoustic evaluation and mapping of neritic pelagic resources and oceanographic and biological conditions of the continental shelf of the Gulf of Cadiz.
Bathymetry, Seismic work and Geophysical Survey of the submerged Paleolithic of the Cantabrica Sea continental platform
Multidisciplinary cruise: Sampling physical and chemical variables that will: - Study thermohaline characteristics, kinematics, dynamics and biology of the eastern half of the Gulf of Cadiz - Establish relationships between climate, hydrology and hydrodynamics and the early stages of development of the species associated with the platform. - Provide data to feed global and regional numerical models. - Generate and distribute a database for the evolution of the marine climate and its resources.
The main target of the project is to perform the scientific studies and research necessary to improve and optimize the environmental assessment of the infralitoral and the continental shelf between Cabo de Palos and Cabo Tiñoso (Cartagena coast), in order to meet the scientific and technical requirements raised in the Natura 2000 Network and the IEO in the course of the process of public information and inquiries to the Environmental Sustainability Report. Specific targets are (1) Geological characterization of the study area by interpreting the data obtained with a multibeam and parametric echo sounder and the surficial sediment sampling by means of Shipek/Van Veen and Box-Corer gears. (2) Characterization from the point of view of chemical contamination of the conditions prior to the planned work, by the study of the distribution of environmental contamination by trace metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and organochlorine compounds in the sediments of the Gorguel-Escombreras area and nearby areas of environmental interest that may suffer the impact of the work. (3) Acquisition of detailed bathymetry and backscatter data from the southern and southeastern continental slope of the study area, to obtain photo and video images in the next campaign that will be carried out on board the Sarmiento de Gamboa ship, and where they will use the Liropus ROV.