December 2023 – PhD Day
We have celebrated a PhD day in our group with lots of interesting talks about student projects and discussions. Especial connections from Australia, Norway and USA have been a treat.
April 2023 – We participate extensively in the ECCW05 Symposium
The 5th Symposium about the Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Ocean was held Bergen, Norway, from the 17th to the 21st of April 2023, organized by ICES and PICES.
We participated extensively contributing with several oral presentations and posters. It was a very inspiring week!
March 2023 – Master students day
We hold the first Master’s student day! We had great presentations by 19 master students that have finished their work during 2021-2022 or are starting their projects in 2022-2023.
| Time | Year | Name | Supervisors | Title |
| 9.00-9.15 | 2022 | Miriam Gimeno | Fran Ramírez / Joan Giménez | Climate and human impacts on global penguin hotspots: current assessments for future conservation. |
| 9.20-9.35 | 2022 | Laia Rosell | Fran Ramírez | A systematic review and meta-analysis of the pollutant exposure (POPs and trace elements) by penguin through the Southern Hemisphere. |
| 9.40-9.55 | 2022 | Marc Vez | Joan Navarro / Joan Giménez | Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on the foraging ecology of an opportunistic predator inhabiting urban environments. |
| 10.00-10.15 | 2022 | Ana Fernández | Joan Navarro / Joan Giménez | Spatial variability of Hg values in a demersal mesopredator along the western Mediterranean Sea. |
| 10.20-10.35 | 2022 | Luca Francotte | Joan Giménez / Joan Navarro | Long-term changes in the feeding habits of swordfish in the western Mediterranean Sea. |
| 10.40-10.55 | 2022 | Martín Barreiros | Valerio Sbragaglia | Analysis of fishing in the MPAs of the Spanish Mediterranean (comparison between recreational and professional fishing) |
| 11.00-11.25 | Cofee Break | |||
| 11.25-11.30 | 2023 | Mar Pardo | Joan Giménez / Marta Coll | Feeding ecology of age-0 bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Valencia |
| 11.35-11.40 | 2023 | Laura Sanz | Joan Navarro / Nixon | Creels as a low-impact alternative to trawling to fish deep-sea Norway lobster. |
| 11.45-11.50 | 2023 | Ana Baeza | Francisco Ramírez /Joan Navarro | Urban gulls as sentinels of Hg pollution in urban marine environments. |
| 11.55-12.00 | 2023 | Angela Loring | Joan Navarro / Joan Giménez | Unravelling the causes of mortality in razorbills wintering in the Alborán Sea |
| 12.05-12.10 | 2023 | Joana Domingo | Joan Navarro | Distribución y selección de lugares de nidificación de un depredador oportunista presente en ecosistemas urbanos. |
| 12.15-12.20 | 2023 | Sofía Diéguez | Maria Bas | Canvis en la presència d’espècies marines en el registre zooarqueològic de l’Hemisferi Sud com a mètode de validació de models de distribució d’espècies marines en el passat. |
| 12.25-12.30 | 2023 | Aleix Ferrer | Fran Ramírez | Uso de hábitat y ecología trófica de la gaviota de Audouin en el mediterráneo occidental. Màster en Teledeccion y GIS |
| 12.35-12.40 | 2023 | Núria Bosch | Fran Ramírez / Joan Giménez | Facing a warming Antarctic Ocean: Penguin population responses to increasing water temperatures and sea ice retreat. |
| 12.45-12.50 | 2023 | Estella Carbonell | Marta Coll / Miquel Ortega | Historical analysis of the socio-ecological system associated with the Ebro Delta purse seine fishery |
| 12.55-13.00 | 2023 | María Begoña Cobo | Odei García-Garin / Marta Coll | Microplastic modelling through the food web: The Delta de l’Ebre as a study case. |
| 13.05-13.10 | 2023 | Andrés Moreira | Odei García-Garin / Diego Páez | Assessing the presence of microplastics in Galapagos Sea Lions’ scats as a bioindicator of pollution in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. |
| 13.15-13.20 | 2023 | Núria González | Odei García-Garin / Manel Gazo | Presència de microplàstics en els continguts estomacals d’una espècie de tauró bentònic en zones de canyons submarins del Golf de Lleó: la moixina (Galeus melastomus) com a cas d’estudi. |
| 13.25-13.30 | 2023 | Lara Fazzari | Valerio Sbragaglia | Public attention to invasive alien species in the Mediterranean Sea |
December 2022 – SEINE-ETP end-of-the-year recap
The SEINE-ETP project, in collaboration with purse-seiners fishermen from Castellón, finished successfully the activities of its first year.
The project aims to contribute to the sustainability of small pelagics fisheries in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea. We are looking forward to a new year of learning, discovering and fruitful collaboration with fishermen.
November 2022 – Large participation at the Small Pelagic Fish ICES/PICES conference
Our group participated intensively at the Small Pelagic Fish ICES/PICES conference in Lisbon. We participating giving a keynote, an invited talk, several regular talks and presented various posters.
The conference was exciting and was great to meet in person several friends and colleagues. Looking forward to future events!
October 2022 – MarinePlan starts
The new project MarinePlan just started. Three 3 exciting years are waiting for us!
The main aim is to develop improved transdisciplinary science for effective ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning and conservation in European Seas.
September 2022 – Ges4Seas starts
The new project Ges4Seas just started. We have 4 exciting years in front of us!
Coastal and marine waters are vital for the natural balance of our planet and for Human societies. All coastal and marine ecosystem goods and services heavily depend on the level of human and environmental pressures, and their cumulative effects.
GES4SEAS will bring together relevant actors and stakeholders, to develop an innovative, compliant, and flexible toolbox in the context of adaptive Ecosystem-Based Management. Stakeholders and key competent authorities will be integrated in a Practitioner Advisory Board to co-create and validate the toolbox.
11 Learning Sites will be used to test, validate, demonstrate and upscale the toolbox in four European regional seas (Atlantic, Mediterranean, Baltic and Black) as well as in the Caribbean Sea.
Through these tools, GES4SEAS will ensure that Good Environmental Status is achieved and support policies at national, European and global levels.
May 2022 – Begins the IPBES assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (the ‘Nexus Assessment’)
From the 16th to the 20th of May 2022 the first author meeting of the Nexus Assessment, the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (nexus assessments) of IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, https://ipbes.net/), was held in Frankfurt, Germany.
More than 150 leading international experts, from every region of the world, are contributing as authors to the assessment. They met for the first time during five intense days to achieve an agreement on the content that the assessment will hold, and on the working process to achieve the final goal in 2024.
The Nexus Assessment will examine the interlinkages among the sustainable development goals related to food and water security, health for all, protecting biodiversity on land and in the oceans and combating climate change.
The researcher Marta Coll, from the Department of Marine Renewal Resources of the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), is one of the three Spanish experts participating in the Nexus Assessment as a lead author of Chapter 4 about sustainable futures.
Dr. Coll states the importance of this assessment: “This is a challenging and very timely process, where we will analyse scientific evidence and local ecological knowledge to synthesise the essential links that are established between key ecological and socioeconomic processes to inform local, regional and international policy and management in the need to ensure a sustainable and livable planet for the future”.
The participation of Dr. Coll to this initiative is funded by the Spanish project ProOceans (RETOS-PID2020-118097RB-I00).
La importancia de proteger los fondos marinos del Delta del Ebro
Científicos proponen la zona marítima del Delta del Ebro como área de restricción pesquera por su riqueza ecológica.
Un reciente trabajo científico, desarrollado por ONG y el CSIC en colaboración con pescadores locales, ha detectado la riqueza ecológica del área marítima del Delta del Ebro y proponen que esta se declare como zona de restricción pesquera.
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March 2022 – ProOceans workshop on modelling techniques
Under our Spanish Project ProOceans “Fostering the capacity of marine ecosystem models to PROject the cumulative effects of global change and plausible future OCEANS” we have organized a 2-day workshop to discuss modelling techniques available, their capabilities and challenges to model the global ocean.
We have discussed about marine ecosystem models, spatial statistical models, Bayesian/Frequentist approach, input data and model construction, outputs, other statistical and non-statistical models, multivariate, time Series, machine learning and computational models (AI).
