BUSCADOR RECOLECTA

GALINCLIMARCH-1 Cruise (29SG20120402) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2012, GALINCLIMARCH - Galicia Internal Basin Paleoclimatic Sedimentary Archives: Transport, Provenances, Hydrology and Reliability. The sediments of the Galician Interior Basin realm are capable of recording the peculiar conditions of the last glacial‐interglacial dynamics transition into the current interglacial and their evolution into present day, as they are influenced by the Thermohaline Circulation (THC) and because their proximity to the important continental land‐mass of western Iberia. The knowledge of the rates and magnitudes of change of this system is critical to understand its climate dynamics, processes and feedbacks, and hence its role on a local to sub‐regional scale. The inference of these climatic mechanisms encrypted in the deep‐sea sedimentary record needs to constrain the spatial and temporal scales of the sedimentary processes involved, in particular the identification of source areas, pathways and transport, storage times and hydrodynamic conditions. To adequately assess these encrypted sedimentary archives it is instrumental to identify the sedimentary expression of the main processes and forcements involved and accurately determine the spatial and temporal scales, rates and magnitudes of the processes and feedbacks that generate these records. This proposal aims to carry out a high‐resolution reconstruction of the transport time,provenance, sediment fluxes, wave climate, bottom‐current variability and post‐depositional alteration in a number of surficial samples and cores from the Galician Interior Basin. This project will provide a first insight into the relation between the last North Atlantic climate oscillation and the local regional components including abrupt climate changes (i.e. H events) and local events since the end of the last glacial period from a paleoclimatic proxies perspective. We will use a twofold approach by first constraining the current sedimentary conditions to their associated local wave climate and North Atlantic regional forcements to subsequently infer the paleoenvironmental conditions from the past 30‐50 ky sedimentary record. Firstly, analysing and modelling the present hydraulic conditions from newly acquired and historical wave climate and oceanographic records from the study area will study the current sedimentary conditions and forcements. These data will be linked to the present day sedimentation conditions by direct measurements of present day sedimentation and oceanographic conditions, supported by moored sediment traps, CTD, Doppler records and surficial samples. Epifauna, infauna, microfauna and sediment microestructure will also be studied. Subsequently we will udertake a multidisciplinary study combining high‐resolution geochemical, physical properties, environmental magnetic sediment derived records with high precision U‐series isotopes analyses in a well‐constrained geochronological framework. Further support will be provided by seismic‐acoustic data acquisition. The combination of these sedimentological, micropaleontological, geochemical and geophysical tools will help in better resolving the role of current strength, circulation and sediment provenance changes also considering across vs. along margin transport balances in the sedimentary record of the Galician Internal basin over the last 30‐50 ky

MONTERA Cruise (29SG20120423) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2012, MONTERA‐0412 scientific cruise has been conducted along two areas of the continental margins of southern Iberia: the Gulf of Cadiz and the Alboran Sea. The objective of the MONTERA coordinated project is to know the processes and mechanisms generated by seamounts located on continental margins, along with the that affect their stability and control their evolution. For this, the project covers three Main specific objectives: • The morphological and tectonic characterization of seamounts. • The stratigraphic and sedimentological characterization of the coating-sedimentary of the seamounts and adjacent areas during the Neo-Quaternary. • The establishment of evolutionary geological models in the Neogene-Quaternary

TOPOMED-GASBATS Cruise (29SG20120517) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2012, The scientific goal of the cruise is to improve our knowledge of the geodynamic evolution of the Gibraltar Arc System (GAS) from improving the existing dataset in particular margin segments of the westernmost Mediterranean. Particularly, the Miocene to Holocene tectonic evolution of the shallow crust, as determined by its deformation pattern, tectonic partitioning and kinematics, neotectonics and active tectonics. The survey was conducted in three different crustal scenarios: 1) a relatively thinned continental crust at the Palomares and Cartagena margins; 2) an anomalous or oceanic crust at the ocean-continent boundary located at the foot of theses margins, and to the east of the Alboran Basin; and 3) a highly fractured and sismogenic continental crust at the Alboran southern margin (Morocco Margin). The survey consisted in acquiring multichannel seismic profiles and concurrent, multibeam bathymetry, and magnetometer and gravimeter records

CATARINA_LEG1 Cruise (29SG20120622) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2012, CATARINA (Carbon Transport and Acidification Rates in the North Atlantic). The main objectives are to quantify the changes in circulation and ventilation of the North Atlantic water bodies and their effects on anthropogenic carbon uptake. It is also intended to evaluate the impact of current CO2 emissions based on the production and conservation of calcium carbonate in the North Atlantic, as well as the potential impact of future ocean acidification on calcareous organisms

CATARINA Leg 2 - PALEOACID Cruise (29SG20120724) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2012, he Leg 2 of CATARINA (PALEOACID) cruise aims to retrieve surface and subsurface sedimentary samples from the bottom (Box Corer, Piston Corer y Gravity Corer) of the North Atlantic at around 3000-4000 m depth in several areas currently bathed by different components of the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW), as the Labrador Sea Water (LSW), Denmark Strait Overflow Water (DSOW) Iceland-Scotland Overflow Water (ISOW) and North-East Atlantic Deep Water (NEADW). Neighbor areas of Gibbs Fracture Zone (GFZ), the main deep passage between the West and East North Atlantic basins are considered priority places to obtain samples. It has been used an Multisensor Core Logger (MSCL) onboard and X-ray equipment that allows to obtain x-rays of the different sections of the core

BIOCANT-2 Cruise (29SG20120927) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2012, This project is oriented to the comparative study of the great submarine canyons of Avilés and Blanes (Girona). First phase: To recovery 6 moorings in the Avilés Canyon region deployed in BIOCANT 1, in March 2012, and will be deployed again to continue recording until March 2013. Second phase: will focus on the collection of biological samples, with the intention of registering changes with respect to winter sampling in the deep communities of the Canyon, that is, it is to detect the winter-summer seasonality. During the cruise, water sampling systems will be used as well as various types of pelagic nets and bottom dredgers

FUGRO-1 Cruise (29SG20121108) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2012, Fugro Black Sea cruise

SPURS-MIDAS Cruise (29SG20130316) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2013, MIDAS (SMOS ocean salinity and soil moisture products. Improvements and applications demonstration) SPURS experiment (Salinity Processes in the Upper ocean Regional Study). Realization a wide range of mesoscale and submesoscale measurements to contribute understanding the mechanisms of formation and permanence of the largest ocean salinity maximum in the centre of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Several standard and prototype instruments are used in measuring sea surface salinity and other ocean variables

BIOCANT-3_LEG1 Cruise (29SG20130424) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2013, The objective of the DOS MARES project is twofold. First, we aim at understanding the effects of the atmospheric teleconnections between the Cantabrian Sea and the north-western Mediterranean Sea, and their impacts on the deep ecosystem, both pelagic and benthic. Second, we want to know in which way the transfer of the signal from the external forcings towards the deep ecosystem controls the community structure and the population dynamics. Thus, in March 2012 we deployed 6 mooring lines equipped with sediment traps and currentmeters in the Avilés and Gaviera canyons and the slope. In September 2012 the moorings were successfully recovered and redeployed again, and during this cruise DOSMARES BIOCANT3 they have been finally recovered and the 1-year monitoring effort finalised. In addition, CTD profiling has been performed to characterise the biological and physical structure of the water column (including the acquisition of discrete water samples), multicorers have been obtained to characterise the geochemical properties of surface sediments, and a multinet used to obtain macro- and meso-zooplankton community structure. Overall, data will allow to characterize the external forcings and abiotic conditions in the Cantabrian Sea, and thus establish the links between abiotic conditions, populations and pelagic and benthopelagic resources

BIOCANT-3_LEG2 Cruise (29SG20130428) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2013, The objective of the DOS MARES project is twofold. First, we aim at understanding the effects of the atmospheric teleconnections between the Cantabrian Sea and the north-western Mediterranean Sea, and their impacts on the deep ecosystem, both pelagic and benthic. Second, we want to know in which way the transfer of the signal from the external forcings towards the deep ecosystem controls the community structure and the population dynamics. Thus, in March 2012 we deployed 6 mooring lines equipped with sediment traps and currentmeters in the Avilés and Gaviera canyons and the slope. In September 2012 the moorings were successfully recovered and redeployed again, and during this cruise DOSMARES BIOCANT3 they have been finally recovered and the 1-year monitoring effort finalised. In addition, CTD profiling has been performed to characterise the biological and physical structure of the water column (including the acquisition of discrete water samples), multicorers have been obtained to characterise the geochemical properties of surface sediments, and a multinet used to obtain macro- and meso-zooplankton community structure. Overall, data will allow to characterize the external forcings and abiotic conditions in the Cantabrian Sea, and thus establish the links between abiotic conditions, populations and pelagic and benthopelagic resources