Scientific news

Antarctica is an amazing place, filled with fascinating forms of marine life, mountains of ice, and vast polar deserts. It is also a place of peace and scientific Discovery because of the Antarctic Treaty, which was ratified on December 1st 1959.

The 1st General Assembly of the European project “Ice, Climate, Economics – Artic Research on Change” (ICE-ARC) took place from Nov 19 to 21 at the ICM.

The Ecopath 30 Years – “Modelling ecosystem dynamics: beyond boundaries with EwE” Conference is currently taken place at the ICM from Monday 10th November to Wednesday 12th 2014 93 participants from 25 countries over the world will participate at the conference, which is a gathering to implement an international scientific reunion on ecosystem modelling using the Ecopath and Ecosim approach.

Jaume Piera and Raul Bardají, from the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, were invited last October at the center "Living with Lakes" of the "Laurentian University" in Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) to present the European Citizen Science project Citclops (www.citclops.eu) and more specifically the low cost buoys developed in this project called KdUINO.

Barcelona Ocean is an educational initiative granting highly specialized courses on all fields related to the Marine Sciences as well as generalist courses on many themes related to the formation of researchers and science dissemination. The Barcelona Ocean courses will be held at the Institute of Marine Sciences (Institut de Ciències del Mar, ICM).
 

Since the '80, the ICM holds the Biological Reference Collections (CBR), which contain a natural history heritage of over 1.800 marine species and more of 26.000 catalogued specimens of Fishes, Crustaceans and Cephalopods, came from all over the world, but mainly, from the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.