- María Laura Arín
- Eva María Calvo
- Clara Cardelús
- Yaiza Mercedes Castillo
- Marta Estrada
- Elena Fernández Corredor
- Joaquim Garrabou
- Josep Mª Gasol
- Josep Mª Gili
- Paula López
- Arturo Manuel Lucas
- Cèlia Marrasé
- Carles Josep Pelejero
- Franz Peters
- Jesús Planella
- Juliana Quevedo
- Cristina Romera-Castillo
- María Montserrat Sala
- Xavier Salvador
- Rafel Simó
- Laia Viure
The Observation and Characterization of the Marine Environment Service determines water and benthic marine quality. Its determination comprises sampling followed by: 1) identification and analysis of different parameters (water clarity, dissolved oxygen, pH, alkalinity, pigments, organic matter, volatile organic compounds and lipids, microbial enzymatic activity, primary production, bacterial production); 2) census and identification of biological samples; 3) design and implementation of experimental approaches; 4) analysis of underwater images.
The service makes boats available, diving equipment, remotely operated vehicles, CTD, photography and video-submarine equipment and all necessary accessories to perform sampling, measure parameters or perform analyses:
- CTD SAIV SD204
- Two Turner Designs fluorometers
- Two spectrofluorimeters (Perkin Elmer LS55 and Horiba Scientific –Aqualog)
- Two Agilent Cary-100 UV spectrophotometers
- Gas Chromatograph with Mass Spectrometry detector (GC-MS) Agilent 5975T LTM coupled to a purge and trap system
- Packed column gas chromatograph with flame photometric detector, coupled to a purge and trap system
- Gas Chromatograph with Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID) Agilent 7890A
- Gas Chromatograph with Mass Spectrometry detector (GC-MS) Agilent GC 8890 with MS 5977B
- Semi-preparative HPLC Agilent 1260 Infinity
- Sunlight simulator SUNTEST
- Metrohm oxygen electrode
- Light meters (Li-Cor)
- PUV-2500 Biospherical Radiometer
- Liquid scintillation counter Tri-Carb 2810-TR Perkin Elmer
- Fluorometer Turner Biosystems Modulus