INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA (IEO) SPANISH INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY JORNADA MEDITERRANEAN KNOW-HOW CMN INVESTIGACIÓN EN EL MEDITERRÁNEO CIM, UPCT, Cartagena 26 de noviembre de 2012
May 13, 2015
INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE
OCEANOGRAFÍA (IEO)
SPANISH INSTITUTE OF
OCEANOGRAPHY
JORNADA MEDITERRANEAN KNOW-HOW CMN
INVESTIGACIÓN EN EL MEDITERRÁNEO
CIM, UPCT, Cartagena 26 de noviembre de 2012
•Tasks
•History
•Facilities & Personnel:
•Oceanographic centres
•Support services
•Research facilities: ships, tide-gauges,
experimental laboratories, aquaculture plants
•Research and Scientific Advice:
•Marine Environment
•Aquaculture
•Fisheries
Tasks:
IEO is a governmental research organization devoted to:
• Oceanographic research (including marine pollution,
fisheries and aquaculture).
• Advice the Spanish Government on its oceanographic
and fishery policies.
• Representation of Spain in international
oceanography and fishery organisations.
• Promotion of co-operation in marine research at the
regional, national and international levels.
• Training oceanographers and disseminating
oceanographic knowlegde.
•
Prof. Odón de Buen
Santander Marine Biology Laboratory (1886)
A long tradition since 1914
Oceanographic cruise in 1916
History:
Facilities and personnel:
•Geographic distribution: coastal laboratories and a central
headquarter in Madrid
•Dedicated research facilities: research vessels, aquaculture
plants, tide-gauge network, satellite image reception station
•Personnel: more than 400 permanent staff (plus ca. 200
temporal contracts).
Administration
CO Murcia staff
– 19 Researchers (14 PhDs)
– 1-3 Investigadores Post-Doc
– 6-10 PhD students
– 2-10 PG students
– 45 technicians and administrative staff.
a nation-wide network
•Headquarter (Madrid)
•Nine Oceanographic Centres
•Four Aquaculture Plants
Murcia Oceanographic Centre Murcia Oceanographic Centre carried out research on fisheries, marine environment and aquaculture since 1966.
• Marine Laboratory (Fisheries & marine environment) – San Pedro del Pinatar. • Aquaculture Plant – Mazarron. •Aquaculture Tank for bluefin spawners (in construction) – Isla Plana, Cartagena.
Marine Laboratory. San Pedro del Pinatar
Aquaculture Plant. Mazarrón
Organization
Structure:
Oceanographic Centres
Administration and finance Science management
• International Relationships
• National Relationships
• Research Training
• Research Ship Management
• Library / Documentation Center
• Publications
• Information Technologies
• Financial Services
• Contracts and Management
• Human Resources
Support services:
Specific research facilities:
•Research ships
•Tide-gaude network
•Experimental laboratories
•Aquaculture plants
•Satellite Imagery
•IOC-IEO Science and Comunication Centre
on Harmful Algal Blooms
•Oceanographic and Fishery Data Centre
A fleet of oceanographic vessels operated by IEO .....
16 m
24 m
31 m 67 m
B/O Cornide de Saavedra
... and granted access to research ships
operated by other agencies
R/V Thalassa
B/O Vizconde de Eza
IFREMER
(France)
Ministry of Fisheries (Spain)
BIO Hespérides
CSIC - Spanish Navy
53 m 83 m
74 m
A tide-gauge network...
... allows the study of sea level changes
Santander
A Coruña
Vigo
Cádiz
Tarifa
Ceuta
Málaga
Sta. Cruz de
La Palma
Palma de
Mallorca
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Arrecife
Aquaculture plants
Santander (Macroalgae) Santander (Fish)
Murcia (Fish) Vigo (Fish)
Satellite Imagery
Spanish Oceanographic and
Fisheries Data Centre (CEDO)
•Database management, including the development of
formats and protocols for data exchange
•Oceanographic and fishery data storage
•Data exchange with national and international data base
systems
•Development of data products and metadata archives
•Regional atlas (statistics and climatological information)
•Software (maps and data management)
Research Divisions:
• Marine environment
• Fisheries and
Renewable resources
• Marine aquaculture
Marine environment
• Temporal variability and trends of oceanographic conditions and biological communities
• Oceanographic processes in relation to living marine resources
• Harmful marine organisms
• Levels, trends and effects of pollutants on marine resources
• Marine biodiversity (Coastal and Oceanic Areas)
• Geological study of continental margins and deep sea basins
• Effects of human activities on marine ecosystems
• Marine Pollution and Biological Effects:
– Monitoring of pollutants along the mediterranean coast.
– Bioindicators of pollutants.
– Regulated and emergent pollutants in Mar Menor lagoon.
Marine Environment
Collecting mussels Analysing pollutants in the lab
• Biodiversity and coastal ecology:
– Ecology of Seagrasses.
– Ecology of Jellyfish.
– Ecotoxicology of bivalvs
– Seahorse and other Vulnerable species
– Marine Protected Areas.
Sampling posidonia in the seagrass Feeding a seahorse in the lab
Marine Environment
Fisheries and Renewable Resources
• Biology and dynamics of exploited species
• Stock assessment of species of interest for the Spanish fleet
• Improvement of the metodology of stock assessment cruises
• Finding and exploration of new fishing grounds
Tuna
• Marine exploited ecosystem:
– Bycatch and discards. Impact of fishing on the ecosystem.
– Biogeography and spatial ecology.
– Stock assessment.
– Research surveys.
– Small-scale fisheries.
Fisheries and Renewable Resources
Research survey - fishing Spatial model – Anchovy distribution
Marine aquaculture
• Improvement of culture techniques in commercially
exploited species (fish, molluscs, seaweeds).
• Development of culture techniques in species already
tested for aquaculture, but not yet commercially
exploited.
• Biology and development of experimental-scale
rearing techniques of species potentially suitable for
aquaculture
• Production of species in captivity oriented to research
or biodiversity protection
• Mediterranean aquaculture
– Bluefin aquaculture
– Genetic, inmunology and nutrition on aquaculture
– Aquaculture and zootecnia of new species of the Mediterranean
Marine aquaculture
Bluefin specimens in a cage Dentón de 26 días
Thanks for your attention
For more information please go to:
• www.ieo.es
• www.mu.ieo.es (with a video in spanish and english)