Get more information regarding the characteristics and distribution of benthic habitats present inside the Columbretes Islands Marine Reserve with the objective of Develop a bionomic map that covers the total extent. The complementary objective is the realization of the benthic cartography. It is intended to achieve location and subsequent georeferencing of the upwelling of gases present in the environment of the volcanic archipelago that forms The study area of this campaign. Associated with this objective is intended to know the Bacterial community in the area of gaseous upwellings and a physicochemical characterization of these areas.
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.
Research and identification of sunken vessels
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. Tests of deploy and recovery lander prototype vehicule.
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.
Realization of virtual 3D scenarios of the most characteristic and vulnerable habitats of the Cabrera Islands National Maritime-Terrestrial Park . Make recordings by means of optical sensors (photographic and video cameras) on the vulnerable and representative benthic habitats, present within the limits of the National Park. In addition, the first sea trials of the underwater photogrammetry module that is being designed and developed within this project will be carried out.. Additionally, samples will be carried out focused on mapping the bottom by means of a multibeam probe of the study area in high resolution. This will allow the underwater vehicle to be operated safely by having a detailed mapping of the areas where the dives will be carried out and obtaining high-detail bathymetries of the areas of interest.
Main targets of PECAN are: - Setting-up of R/V Ángeles Alvariño as acoustic-fisheries prospecting vessel. - Optimizing sampling design for the systematic study and abundance estimating of Canary Islands pelagic species. - Using echo integration as a method to estimate Canary Islands pelagic species abundance.
The main target of the "VULcanología CAnaria submariNA, VULCANA" project, is to study from a physicochemical, biological and geological point of view underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal systems active or not in the entire Canary basin. In addition, special attention will be given to the continuity of studies carried out in the Tagoro submarine volcano on the island of El Hierro, continuing like this, with one of the Longest physical-chemical-biological time series in the Spanish territory. The specific objectives of the Vulcana-III-0421 will be: 1.- Study of the temporal variability of physical, chemical and biogeochemical properties. a) Study of the temporal variability of temperature, salinity, pH-orp inside the crater the main submarine volcano Tagoro. b) Study of the spatio-temporal variability of thermohaline, fluorescence and oxygen fields dissolved in the hydrothermal plume of the Tagoro submarine volcano. c) Study of the spatio-temporal variability of the biogeochemical cycles of nutrients majority (nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon and ammonium). d) Evaluation of the anthropogenic influence through the analysis of marine microplastic in the water column 2.- Evaluation of the impact of the eruptive process on the microbial community. a) Study of the variability of the microbial community in relation to the emission of fluids hydrothermal by the Tagoro volcano. b) Study of the variability of microbial abundance in relation to the emission of fluids hydrothermal by the Tagoro volcano. c) Study of the variability of the chlorophyll concentration in relation to the emission of fluids hydrothermal by the Tagoro volcano. d) Study of the concentration and 12C / 13C isotopic ratio of CO2 and CH4 continuously dissolved in water surface and by discrete samples at different depths in the water column.
Main objectives: assesment and maping of spawing biomass of blue whiting by ecointegration, characterization of the hidrologic conditions of the surveyed area.