BUSCADOR RECOLECTA

EFLUBIO-1 Cruise (29GD20031111) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2003, The purpose of the Eflubio project is to identify, quantify and relate the physical-chemical conditions, the structures of the planktonic communities and the biogeochemical flows in the area of influence of the Nor-Balearic front (and the two water masses it delimits) during the periods of spring bloom and summer stratification.This campaign has two objectives, one such as the placement of the anchored sediment trap(The trap was in the Gulf of León at 41.80 N 5.20 E, at about 2300 m depth) and another scientific one that is to study the planktonic communities and associated biochemical flows during the stratification and oligotrophic situation in the northwestern Mediterranean.Temperature, salinity and oxygen parameters will be measured.Inorganic and organic nutrients, biochemical composition (proteins and nucleic acids of plankton), bacteria, ciliates and flagellates, phytoplankton, chlorophyll, pigments, micro and mesozooplankton, bacterial production, primary production, sedimentation of particulate matter, phytoplankton sedimentation, pigment sedimentation

VEDA-7 Cruise (29GD20031114) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2003, The purpose of the VEDA campaigns is to analyze the response of the organisms and sediments to a veto period of the trawling fishery.Collection of samples of infauna and sediments from the study area and recording of the process followed by the material resuspended by the trawl. Recording of oceanographic and environmental data. The campaigns must be carried out according to the activity of the trawling fleet. The campaigns will be carried out in the province of Tarragona , in the area of influence of the ports of the Atmella and San Carles de la Ràpita

DINAPROFIT-1 Cruise (29GD20040302) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, Dynamics of spring phytoplankton proliferations in the central Cantabrian.The campaign consists of the repetition of a mesh every 3 days, this mesh consists of 24 stations separated by 7.5 miles. In the stations there will be different samplings, there are physical stations (CTD, Optical Plankton Counter, Video Plankton Recorder) and biological stations ( Turbomap, LHPR, Bongo net ). Meteorological data will be used also the thermosalinograph-fluorometer and ADCP

RECS-6 Cruise (29GD20040325) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, Characterize the temporal and spatial variability of water and particle flows in the area of the Blanes canyon. Determine the seasonal and suvestational variability of the population structure of the shrimp Aristeus antennatus. Interaction of the submarine canyon environment with the physiological state of the associated shrimp resource. Spatio-temporal determination of the population structure of shrimp linked to the submarine canyon. Detection of recruitment areas and application of new technologies for their preservation

RECS-2-6 Cruise (29GD20040329) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, The campaign consists of recovering anchorages with sediment traps. At night, ADCP will be used and CTD stations will be made

RECS-7 Cruise (29GD20040509) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, During the campaign it is intended to make a total of 8 multicorer, a total of 4 fishing with a benthic net and recover 5 moorings placed in the RECS-4 campaign. It is intended to make a sampling mesh with a suprabentonic net

MEDGAZ Cruise (29GD20040515) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, Private study for the study and promotion of the Algeria gas pipeline, it is intended to collect sediment samples and anchor a correntimeter

CACO-3 Cruise (29GD20040623) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, The project proposes a continuous sampling of oceanography and plankton 24 hours a day.The general objective of this project is to analyze the possible variations experienced by the climate in the last decades with significant changes in the composition, distribution and abundance of fish communities on the Catalan coast. It is intended to study the variation in the distribution and abundance of those fish species more vulnerable to changes in the environmental conditions, especially the temperature of the water, in the last 20 years on the Catalan coast. We will focus on pelagic species of warm waters, which are the ones that respond most quickly to an environmental change. Therefore, samplings should be made in summer.Sampling was carried out during July 2003 and July 2004, coinciding with the spawning period of Sardinella aurita and Engraulis encrasicolus. Determination of the basic hydrographic parameters was performed with CTD casts at stations distributed along transects, from near the coast to the shelf edge, along the Catalan coast (NW Mediterranean).. The CTD employed was a Neil Brown Mark III with an attached SeaTech fluorometer. Profiles of temperature, salinity, density and fluorescence were averaged at 1 m intervals.To determine the vertical distribution of fish eggs and larvae, sampling was focused on 2 areas of the Catalan coast where the continental shelf was relatively wide: one in the southern part, which was called the ‘southern area’ and the other in the north that was denoted the ‘northern area’.Vertically stratified zooplankton samples for fish larvae (45 cm mouth diameter, 333 µm mesh) and microzooplankton (9 cm diameter, 53 µm mesh) were collected simultaneously using a double Longhurst-Hardy Plankton Recorder net (LHPR)

GEOTECNIA Cruise (29GD20040705) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, The campaign will consist of obtaining seismic profiles, 3.5-kHz side scan sonar profiles and dredging

EFLUBIO-3 Cruise (29GD20040913) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, The purpose of the Eflubio project is to identify, quantify and relate the physical-chemical conditions, the structures of the planktonic communities and the biogeochemical flows in the area of influence of the Nor-Balearic front (and the two water masses it delimits) during the periods of spring bloom and summer stratification.On this cruise the sediment trap anchored in E-Flubio-1 will be collected