Scientific news

A group of international researchers, led by AZTI scientists, and with a large contribution of ICM-CSIC researches show in a paper published in the latest issue of Nature Communications that the size of marine plankton is key to its global dispersal and distribution. It is an important discovery because plankton form the base of the food chain in the sea, produce 50% of the oxygen we breathe and also remove CO2 from the atmosphere. These functions depend on the distribution of the different plankton species and on their body size.

The role of viruses on marine microbial communities has been widely studied in the coastal or surface zones of the oceans but the evaluation of viruses in the deep ocean is scarce. One of the main objectives of the Malaspina 2010 Circumnavigation Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), was to sample the deep ocean and to study the life strategies of the viruses that live there.

The fifth edition of the "Ramon Margalef Summer Colloquia" (RMSC) will begin on Monday 3 of July, organized by the Institut of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC) and the Catalan Association of Oceanographers (ACOIO). Since its first edition in 2013, every summer the RMSC gathers junior and senior oceanographers to exchange ideas on ocean research.

The Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) is part of PerformFISH, a new H2020 European project focus on developing consumer driven aquaculture production by integrating innovative approaches that can help ensure European sea bream and sea bass aquaculture businesses are sustainable and competitive.

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), from the Institute of Marine Science (ICM) and the Blanes Center of Advances Studies (CEAB), together with the University of Barcelona (UB), organize the Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting 2017, which is celebrated in Barcelona from the 19th to the 22th of June.

The symposium with already some decades of existence also include the “11th Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea” and the “5th Crustacean Larval Conference”.

On June 19, the Barcelona Expert Center of Remote Sensing (BEC), will celebrate a day to commemorate its ten years of existence. It will take place in the Institute of Marine Sciences of ​​the CSIC in Barcelona.