BUSCADOR RECOLECTA

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

CARIBE-NORTE Cruise (29HE20090405) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2009, Analysis of contact between the Caribbean and North American plates, from the Beata ridge (Dominican Republic) to the Anegada Passage. The cruise collected multibeam bathymetry, gravity, magnetic, high-resolution seismic and three-channel seismic reflection data. A set of 5 OBS were anchored along that transect on both sides of the Beata Ridge and 2 seismic land stations at the Beata and Alto Velo Islands, recorded continuously the airgun shots provided by the R/V Hesperides

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