Resultados de investigación

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

HERMES Cruise (29HE20090915) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2009, Hotspot Ecosystem research on the Margins of European Seas (HERMES). Further multibeam surveying was completed and improved the resultion in an area where cold-water-coral ocurrences have been reported

ORCA Cruise (29HE20091017) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2009, Origin and variability of the Canary Current (ORCA)

FORSAGAL Cruise (29SG20090210) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2009, Marine Biology and Marine Sciences student formative Forsagal cruise

FAMOSO-1 Cruise (29SG20090306) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2009, FAMOSO (Fate of the northwestern Mediterranean open sea spring bloom), an investigation project on oceanic plankton and biogeochemical dynamics north of the IDEADOS area. During The 3 cruises sampled different oceanographic conditions, starting with early stages of the late winter-early spring bloom, followed by the late stage of the bloom, and finally summer stratification .Starting with the late winter-early spring phytoplankton bloom in FAMOSO-1: (14 to 22 March) the post-bloom in FAMOSO-2 ( 30 April to 13 May) and the late stratification in FAMOSO-3 ( 17 to 19 September). During these cruises, conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiles were conducted with a SBE911plus probe (SeaBird Electronics) attached to a rosette equipped with Niskin bottles. Samples were collected from 19 CTD casts for the determination of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and phosphate, as well as picoplankton abundance and cell properties. Wind speed data were collected by the onboard meteorological station

TRANSIT-2 Cruise (29SG20090421) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2009

FAMOSO-2 (29SG20090428) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2009, FAMOSO (Fate of the northwestern Mediterranean open sea spring bloom), an investigation project on oceanic plankton and biogeochemical dynamics north of the IDEADOS area. During The 3 cruises sampled different oceanographic conditions, starting with early stages of the late winter-early spring bloom, followed by the late stage of the bloom, and finally summer stratification .Starting with the late winter-early spring phytoplankton bloom in FAMOSO-1: (14 to 22 March) the post-bloom in FAMOSO-2 ( 30 April to 13 May) and the late stratification in FAMOSO-3 ( 17 to 19 September). During these cruises, conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiles were conducted with a SBE911plus probe (SeaBird Electronics) attached to a rosette equipped with Niskin bottles. Samples were collected from 19 CTD casts for the determination of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and phosphate, as well as picoplankton abundance and cell properties. Wind speed data were collected by the onboard meteorological station

OBSEA Cruise (29SG20090520) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2009, OBSEA underwater observatory deployment in the Garraf coast

BIOFUN-1 Cruise (29SG20090529) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2009, Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in contrasting southern European deep-sea environments: from viruses to megafauna . The aim of BIOFUN is to characterise, under an ecosystem approach, two deep-sea habitats – the mid-slope and abyssal plain – including for the first time the analysis from viruses to megafauna, to understand the linkages between biodiversity patterns and ecosystem functioning in relation to environmental conditions along a gradient of increased oligotrophy from West to East. The BIOFUN team proposes a multidisciplinary coordinated research programme to investigate the Algerian-Balearic Basin (1000-3000 m), the Ionian Sea including the Messina Abyssal Plain (1000-4100 m depth) and the Levantine Basin (1000-3100 m depth) in the Mediterranean and the Galicia Bank in the Atlantic