BUSCADOR RECOLECTA

COPLA Cruise (29HE20080324) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2007, Collaborative Cruise COPLA, National Commission of Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf Argentina (Comisión Nacional del Límite Exterior de la Plataforma Continental Argentina)

TRYNITOP-2 Cruise (29HE20080408) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2008, Trynitrop ('Trichodesmium and N2 fixation in the tropical Atlantic). The objective of the TRYNITROP project is to characterize the distribution and activity of Trichodesmium and other N2 fixatives, to determine the factors responsible for the control of N2 fixation as well as the contribution of these organisms to the fluxes of C and N mediated by the microbial plankton in the Phototic layer of the Tropical Atlantic. The project will be carried out between latitudes 35º N and 35º S, in the longitude 028º W

ZEE-2008 Cruise (29HE20080901) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2008, Exclusive Economic Zone cruise 2008, (Characterization of the Galician Continental Margin). Oceanographic hydrographic study of the Spanish exclusive economic zone

P3A2 Cruise (29HE20081004) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2008, P3A2 -Pelagic Production in the Atlantic-Andalusian Platform. Discrete measurements of CO2 (pH and alkalinity) and hydrographic variables (salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, phosphate and silicate) obtained during the cruise P3A22008. carried out in the Strait of Gibraltar

NEAREST-SEIS Cruise (29HE20081027) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2008, NEAR shore sourcES of Tsunamis: towards an early warning system (NEAREST). Seismic characterization and paleoseismicity tsunamigenic structures in the Gulf of Cádiz (SW Iberian Margin). During the NEAREST-SEIS cruise on the B/O Hesperides (Nov. 2008), two wide-angle seismic lines were acquired in the Gulf of Cadiz area using a source composed of seven 1500liter Bolt airguns (4520 in3), shot at 90 s intervals. 19 ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) from Ifremer and the University of Brest and 17 OBS from UTM-CSIC, Barcelona were deployed during the survey

SAGAS Cruise (29HE20081122) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2008, This project intends to study, through a multidisciplinary geological and geophysical approach, the current structure and recent evolution of the Gibraltar arch system (sag), which includes the basins and margins of the Alboran and Algerian-Balearic sea and its surroundings, the orogen bético-rifeño and the accretion prism of the Gulf of Cádiz. The objective is to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of the internal processes that affect the lithosphere and the earth's crust, the dynamics of external processes responsible for morphology, sedimentation and geoenvironment, and the interrelation between deep and superficial processes. The specific objectives refer to processes and mechanisms that occur at different scales, and therefore require complementary approaches, activities and methods. The project would increase the geological and geophysical infrastructure in the Spanish Mediterranean and is of interest for allowing actions aimed at preventing and designing contingency plans for geological and environmental risks in a region in which considerable earthquakes and underwater landslides occur

ATOS-2 Cruise (29HE20090124) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2009, ATOS project: Atmospheric inputs of organic carbon and pollutans to the polar ocean: rates, significance and outlook. "Quantify the atmospheric contributions of organic carbon and pollutants to the polar oceans, both those that occur at present and those that occurred in the last century and that have accumulated in the sea ice, being currently contributed to the ocean due to the melting of the ice in the poles. 1. Quantifying the atmospheric inputs of organic carbon and key organic pollutants both in aerosol and gaseous phases. 3. Evaluating the fate of the materials, by assessing their use by biota and transference up the food webs. 4. Evaluating the effects on microplankton as the entry points of the materials in the food web. 2. Elucidating the role of sea ice cover in controlling these rates and the inputs associated to sea ice melting

HUMBOLT Cruise (29HE20090305) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2009, Study of the Humboldt Current. Oceanographic and training research campaign organized by the Spanish National Research Council and the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the Catholic University of Chile, where researchers from both institutions will participate, plus the University of Concepción and the EXPLORA Program of CONICYT

ZEE-2009 Cruise (29HE20090805) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2009, Exclusive Economic Zone cruise 2009. Oceanographic hydrographic study of the Spanish exclusive economic zone

MARBANGA Cruise (29HE20090825) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2009, Study the paleoclimate of the last 30,000 years as a formula to understand the climatic conditions of today. MARBANGA cruise its whitin the proyect TOPOSED PROX Climatic forcings, tectonic controls and land-sea connections in the evolution of the Pleistocene and Holocene sedimentary record of the West Bank of the Bank of Galicia: magnetochemical proxies