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 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.

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 - Winter sampling. · Coastal observatory sampling. · Time Serie for environmental control of the PLOCAN test bed.

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

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

FICARAM cruise aims to investigate the evolution of decadal anthropogenic carbon and to evaluate the CO2 uptake capacity in the sector South Atlantic Ocean and its spread to Ecuador and Nord-tropical zone. The section of this cruise is a repeat section following the trace made in 1994 by IFREMER (Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans) into the French project CITHER as a WOCE (http://wwz.ifremer.fr/lpo/Moyens-a-la-mer/Les-campagnes-a-la-mer/Cither-2). This section was repeated in 2001 and 2002 by the Oceanology Group of the Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas of CSIC as part of CAVASSO and CARBOOCEAN European projects. This section is part of the international programs GOSHIP (http://www.go-ship.org/CruisePlans.html) and IOPCC. These programs allow the coordination between the various activities in the global ocean (http://www.go-ship.org/RefSecs/GOSHIPMap_April2011.pdf). The objectives of this cruise are framed in the EU FP7 project CARBOCHANGE (http://carbochange.b.uib.no/) under grant agreement nº 264879. Another important component of FICARAM cruise aims examine the biological and biogeochemical mechanisms that hinder total dissolved organic carbon (DOC) remineralisation in marine systems, taking a multidisciplinary perspective and applying many different approaches. This objective is the global objective of the Spanish project DOREMI that join this FICARAM cruise. Along the section, the DOREMI project will test the effect of different factors (carbon and nutrient additions, and microbial structure) on DOC degradation in epipelagic, mesopelagic and deep waters, developing some experiments determining the potential degradability of mesopelagic and epipelagic DOM, and the role that labile C supplements plays regulating this process and by the microbial structure.

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. ¿ Characterize the zooplankton in the waters of the Canary archipelago, including biomass, abundances and taxonomy, as well as your metabolism: respiration, growth, excretion, ingestion, etc.

TAlPro-2016 represents the Western Mediterranean basin component of the MedSHIP initiative. The cruise will occupy two meridional sections, one across the relatively flat and deep Algero-Provencal basin, and one across the deep and rugged Tyrrhenian Sea. The data collected during these sections will allow to: 1) measure the changes in the thermohaline properties of Mediterranean water masses at the basin-scale; 2) quantify the Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (DIC) storage in the Western Mediterranean Sea; 3) quantify the uptake of anthropogenic carbon in the Western Mediterranean Sea; 4) quantify changes in the ventilation of the deep and intermediate water masses thanks to the transient tracers (CFCs and SF6).

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. • Characterize the zooplankton in the waters of the Canary archipelago, including biomass, abundances and taxonomy, as well as its metabolism: respiration, growth, excretion, ingestion, etc.