Iniciamos un nuevo Ciclo de Seminarios del DOFT, bajo la coordinación de Álvaro Viudez. Los seminarios están abiertos a todo el público, son puntos de encuentro entre los propios miembros del DOFT y otros investigadores interesados en la física del medio marino. Cualquier persona interesada en suscribirse a la lista de distribución de los avisos de seminarios puede contactar con Celia Rovira (rovira@icm.csic.es). Para dar una conferencia favor contactar con Álvaro Viúdez (aviudez@icm.csic.es).
Activities
30 Noviembre 2016
En el marc de les XXXII Trobades Científiques de la Mediterrània - organitzades per l'Institut Menorquí d'Estudis (IME), la Societat Catalana de Física, l'Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (IMEDEA-UIB-CSIC) i l'Institut de Ciències del Mar - es va retre homenatge a tres grans investigadors i companys de l'ICM: Marta Estrada, en Jordi Font i en Jordi Salat. Els tres van entrar a l’Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras (IIP) durant la dècada del 1970 i amb el seu compromís i energia van treballar durant tots aquests anys aportant noves línies d’investigació que han proporcionat avenços substancials en la forma d’entendre el sistema marí, a més d’ajudar a molts joves investigadors a formar-se i apassionar-se amb la recerca.
Com part d'aquest homenatge s'ha fet la presentació d’un volum especial de Scientia Marina, la revista oceanogràfica que els tres han recolzat durant tota la seva carrera. Aquest especial, que consta de 22 articles sobre la oceanografia biològica i física, inclou també tres biografies sobre els investigadors homenatjats. Els editors d’aquest volum han estat Josep Lluís Pelegrí del DOFT i Dolors Vaqué i hi ha un total de 13 articles científics amb autoria d'investigadors del DOFT. El pdf del volum especial el podeu trobar a la web de la revista Scientia Marina: http://scimar.icm.csic.es/scimar/index.php/secId/7/Id/209
09 Noviembre 2016
El proper dimecres 9 de novembre, a l'Aula Magna de la Facultat de Geologia de la Universitat de Barcelona, es presentarà el projecte VA-DE RETRO als estudiants de Ciències del Mar d'aquesta universitat. La presentació la faran Josep L. Pelegrí, Paola Castellanos, Miquel Rosell, Dorleta Orúe-Echeverría, Ignasi Vallés i Marta Masdeu. L'objectiu de la presentació es mostrar part de la recerca que el DOFT actualment desenvolupa a l'Oceà Atlàntic, sobre tot aquella recerca que contempla treball de camp a l'Oceà Atlàntic equatorial i sud. L'èmfasi es posarà en descriure el projecte "Connexions en transports latitudinals i recirculacions de gir a l'Oceà Atlàntic" (VA-DE-RETRO, referència CTM2014-56987-P), explicant l'objectiu del project i descrivint les campanyes oceanogràfiques que es faran com part del projecte.
El projecte VA-DE-RETRO es una iniciativa que busca entendre dues regions claus de l'Oceà Atlàntic: la retroflexió de la Corrent del Nord de Brasil a l'equador, davant de la descàrrega de l'Amazones, i la trobada de les Corrents de Brasil i Malvines, davant de la descàrrega de Rio de La Plata. Aquestes regions son clau per tant connecten els tròpics, on l'oceà incorpora grans quantitats d'energia solar, i les altes latituds, on aquesta energia s'allibera a l'atmosfera. També son fonamentals per la distribució de nutrients i oxigen dissolt, que controlen els cicles biogeoquímics dels oceans. Son unes veritables vàlvules reguladores de la circulació global oceànica i, en conseqüència, de l'estat climàtic del nostre planeta.
Al projecte VA-DE-RETRO participen investigadors de l'Institut de Ciències del Mar, la Universitat de Girona i la Universitat de Barcelona, amb la col·laboració d'investigadors d'altres centres espanyols i estrangers. El projecte és finançat pel Plan Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del govern espanyol.
For more information on the VA-DE-RETRO project you may visit the web page http://va-de-retro.icm.csic.es
Impartida por:
Josep L. Pelegrí, Montserrat Vidal, Paola Castellanos, Miquel Rosell, Dorleta Orúe-Echeverría, Ignasi Vallés i Marta Masdeu
Ubicación:
Aula Magna de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona
31 Octubre 2016
En el marc de les activitats de difusió del projecte VA-DE-RETRO (ref. CTM2014-56987-P), finançat pel Ministerio de Economía y Competitivitat, s'impartirà el curs "Potenciant la curiositat per l'oceanografia: conceptes i eines per professors de primària". La primera sessió del curs es farà el dia 20 d'octubre, els profesors son investigadors del DOFT: Paola Castellanos, Marta Masdeu, Carine Simon i Josep Lluís Pelegrí. Hi participen mestres de les escoles Bogatell, Antoni Brusi i Patronat Domenech.
En una societat tant tecnològica com la que ara ens trobem, els nostres infants i nens corren dos riscos importants: es poden deslligar progressivament de la natura que els envolta i, al mateix temps, perdre la seva creativitat i curiositat natural. Els nens de mena són científics – es fan preguntes, sovint sense resposta, volen descobrir, investigar i entendre com funcionen les coses – però amb els anys aquesta virtut pot quedar empetitida si no rep un recolzament adient.
L'objectiu d’aquest curs es justament aportar diverses eines als mestres que treballen amb nens, eines que els ajudin a potenciar la seva actitud nata de recerca dins d’una temàtica lligada a la natura: la oceanografia. Per això oferim dos mòduls de formació: un de pràctic i un altre de teòric. En aquests mòduls es subministraran eines per poder dur a terme el mètode científic, prioritzant en tot moment que els nens desenvolupin un amor envers els oceans al mateix temps que mantenen i incrementen les seves qualitats intrínseques de curiositat i creativitat.
Per mes informació podeu visitar la página web http://barcelona-ocean.com/training/course/potenciant-la-curiositat-loce...
Impartida por:
Paola Castellanos, Marta Masdeu, Carine Simon, Josep Lluís Pelegrí
Ubicación:
Institut de Ciències del Mar
XXXII Trobades Científiques de la Mediterrània Josep Miquel Vidal - Tribute to Marta Estrada, Jordi Font and Jordi Salat
05 Octubre 2016
Every year since 1985, the Societat Catalana de Física (SCF, http://blogs.iec.cat/scfis/) and the Institut Menorquí d’Estudis (IME, http:// www.ime.cat) organize the conference entitled Trobades Científiques de la Mediterrània (TCM), with the support of several academic institutions. The topic of the TCM 2016 is the sea. It obviously includes physical oceanography, but also chemical, biological and geological oceanography. Theoretical, numerical and observational studies covering from regional to planetary scales are welcome. Although the focus will be put on the Mediterranean, studies focusing on other regions will also be accepted. The TCM 2016 will thus be a multidisciplinary forum aimed to fostering the interaction between the different parcels of Marine Sciences.
Also the 2016 edition of the TCM wants to pay a tribute, in this case to three people that have pioneered (altogether with others) the field of modern Mediterranean oceanography. They are Dr. Marta Estrada, Dr. Jordi Font and Dr. Jordi Salat, who have developed practically all their careers at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona and that this year have reached the retirement age.
Para mayor información pueden visitar la web de las Trobades: http://planeta-ocea.icm.csic.es.
Ubicación:
Maó, Menorca
20 July 2016
The IV Encuentro de la Oceanografía Física Española (EOF2016) wil take place in the San Vicente Campus of the Universidad de Alicante between 20 and 22 July 2016. The meting is organized by the universities of Alicante, Politècnica de Catalunya, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Vigo, together with Puertos del Estado and the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona.
The EOF2016 acsepts communications on any of the following topics: processes at different scales (small scale, submesoescala, mesoescala and large scale), harbour and coastal oceanography, ocean methods (all sorts of technologies, including models and remote sensing), climate change, marine climate, operational oceanography, ocean energy sources, paleoceanography.
For further information please visit the web page of the meeting: http://www.vsimposioccmar.com/encuentro-espanol-de-la-oceanografia-fisica/
30 Junio 2016
These days two new members have joined DOFT: Neus Figueras Balañá and José Manuel Rodríguez Del Amo. Neus has an undergraduate degreee in Marine Sciecnes and enters our department hired through the European Social Fund while José Manuel is a Advanced Technician on Informatic Systems Administration and joins the department through a contract from the Generalitat de Catalunya that supports our research group on Physical and Technological Oceanography.
Welcome!!
15 Mayo 2016
Celia Rovira has joined DOFT with tasks of technical support, replacing our dear Maria Rosa Vitrià, who retired recently. We welcome her and wish her a wonderful tiem at DOFT, with the certainty that she will help us wery much in our daily tasks.
Weekly departamental seminars return to the Sala Julià - Next seminar to be given by Emili Garcia Ladona
19 April 2016
The forecoming seminar will be given by Emili García Ladona, on 19 April at 12 hours, entitled: "New DOFT web: hot to access and create personal contents".
Time:
12:00
Impartida por:
Emili García Ladona
Filiación:
Departament de Oceanografia Física i Tecnològica, ICM
Ubicación:
Sala Julià
01 April 2016
Anna Cabré will join our departament on April 1st with a Beatriu de Pinós contract. This contract, financed by the Generalitat de Catalunya, will be to work in collaboration with Josep L. Pelegrí on the project "Open-ocean deeep water convection mechanisms and teleconnections to tropical rainfall". Anna did her doctorate in astrophysics in 2008 and since 2009 she has been a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, during the last years studying large scale ocean circulation and biogeochemical processes.
22 Febrero 2016
Mikhail Emelianov, Josep Lluís Pelegrí and Jaume Piera, all them researchers from DOFT, will present communications at the forecoming 2016 Ocean Sciences meeting, to be held in New Orleans on the week of 22 February 2016. Mikhail Emelianov will author a communication on "In situ observations of the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence in March 2015", Jaume Piera will present "Innovative technologies (DIY instruments and data sonification) for engaging volunteers to participate in marine environmental monitoring programs", and Josep Lluís Pelegrí will lead a communication on "On how the seasonal variability of the ITCZ drives subtropical-tropical exchange in the Atlantic Ocean". These authors will also coauthor another four communications.
Ubicación:
New Orleans
18 Febrero 2016
Los días 18 y 19 de febrero se realizará en Ensenada, México, la segunda reunión del proyecto POMTE (en inglés: Offshore oil platforms for ocean monitoring and testing, OOP-OMT), con la participación de Jaume Piera, Mikhail Emelianov y Josep Lluís Pelegrí del DOFT, junto con investigadores del Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada y del Instituto Ocenográfico de la Universidad de Sao Paulo. El objetivo de la reunión es avanzar en la identificación de oportunidades y estrategias que permitan utilizar las plataformas petroleras para probar equipos oceanográficos y desarrollar sistemas de observación autónomos, con transmisión de datos oceánicos en tiempo real.
Ubicación:
Ensenada
02 Febrero 2016
Next 2 and 3 February 2016 will be held at Locean (Paris) the 29th progress meeting of expert support laboratories (ESL) for the retrieval of ocean salinity from SMOS radiometric measurements. Our department is one of those laboratories, and Antonio Turiel is the current principal investigator. Since 2005, and under contract with ESA, we have been working one the definition, validation and improvement of algorithms that integrate the level 2 SMOS salinity processor.
31 Enero 2016
Research Professor Jordi Font retired on 9 January 2016. Jordi was fundamental for the creation and growth of the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography at ICM, and a key actor for the continuous growth of physical ocenography in Spain. He has been head of the department in several instances and has served in several international societies and committees. Participant in 45 oceanographic campaigns with more than 400 days at sea. Author or co-author of 400 communications to scientific symposia and 300 published papers (90 in journals indexed in the Science Citation Reports), with h-index=30. Adviser of 9 PhD thesis. Principal Investigator in several Spanish and European research contracts. Convener of sessions in international symposia, member of evaluation panels for research institutions, and reviewer for 30 journals. More than 100 interviews and collaborations in social media. Since 1999 and until his retirement, he has been Co-Lead Investigator for ocean salinity in the European Space Agency SMOS mission. Until May 2010 he was Chairman of the Ocean Physics and Climate Committee of the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea CIESM. He received the National Arts Award 2011 of the Catalan Government in the category of Thought and Scientific Culture.
We are most grateful to Jordi Font for all what he has done for the department and each of its members, we will miss him a lot! Nevertheless, we are released to know he will continue coming every Wednesday to sing with the "Coral del Mar", the choir ensemble of our institute!
31 Enero 2016
Maria Rosa Vitrià started working at ICM really young, in June 1963. More than 50 years making history in our institute and department, continuously helping many researchers in the most diverse tasks. We are really grateful to Maria Rosa and we will miss her very much. Nevertheless, we trust that she will come to visit us frequently because the department will always be her home! Thanks, Maria Rosa!!
26 Enero 2016
Impartida por:
Josep Lluís Pelegrí
Filiación:
DOFT, ICM
Ubicación:
ICM, Barcelona
17 Enero 2016
On 17 January 2016 Ignasi Vallès Casanova will join our department with an FPI contract in the frame of the project "Western boundary retroflections: connecting latitudinal transports and gyre recirculations in the Atlantic Ocean" (VA-DE-RETRO), financed by the R&D Plan of the Spanish government. Ignasi's research will focus on the dynamics of two major retroflections in the Atlantic Ocean: the Brasil-Malvinas Confluence and the Equatorial Undercurrent.
12 Enero 2016
Time:
12:00
Impartida por:
Carolina Gabarró
Filiación:
DOFT-ICM
Ubicación:
ICM, Barcelona
08 Enero 2016
The present DOFT department chair, Jordi Font, is retiring on January 8 and will be replaced by Josep Lluís Pelegrí following the proposal made by the department faculty to ICM Director. Jordi was chairing the department since April 2013, when we added "and Technological" to Physical Oceanography to better describe our field of research.
01 Enero 2016
On January 1 begins a new stage of BEC, the SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre installed in DOFT-ICM. The SMOS-BEC (SMOS-BARCELONA EXPERT CENTER ON RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION AND OCEAN SALINITY) was founded in July 2007 by agreement between CSIC and UPC to enhance coordination and visibility of both institutions in their joint work in processing data from the SMOS European Space Agency mission. Now, six years after the satellite launch, a collaboration agreement has been signed between the two institutions and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) on Earth observation activities. As a result, as of January 1, the IEEC is integrated in the BEC that becomes now the BARCELONA EXPERT CENTER ON REMOTE SENSING and widens its scope to cover all remote sensing topics of interest for the three entities.
21 Diciembre 2015
Time:
18:30
Impartida por:
Jaume Piera
Filiación:
DOFT-ICM
Ubicación:
Residència d'Investigadors, carrer Hospital 64, Barcelona
14 Diciembre 2015
On December 14, 2014 ICM will host the final meeting of the "Tipping Corners of the Meridional Overturning Circulation" (MOC ICT-reference CTM2011-28867) project that will review and analyze its main achievements. The TIC-MOC project has been funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government, with a duration of 4 years from January 2012 to December 2015. Its main objective has been to improve our understanding of three key regionsin the functioning of the global ocean conveyor belt: the Mediterranean water outflow in the Gulf of Cadiz, the system of zonal currents in the tropical Atlantic, and the stratification processes and upwelling of deep waters in the Southern Ocean. The scientific results have been excellent, reflected in nearly a hundred of conference papers and 28 papers in high impact journals, along with a huge amount of data obtained during two oceanographic cruises and a very large number of outreach activities to general and university public.
The same day will take place the first plenary meeting of the "Western boundary retroflections: connecting latitudinal transports and gyre recirculations in the Atlantic Ocean" (VA-DE-RETRO reference CTM2014-56987-P) project. It is funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness with a duration of three years, from January 2015 to December 2017. The project is aimed at studying retroflections in two regions of western boundary currents that are key to the functioning of the global conveyor belt: those that occur in the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean (Subsurface Equatorial Current and its northern and southern branches) and those linked to the Confluence of the Brazil and Malvinas currents. The project seeks to understand the dynamics of both retroflexion regions, their role as barrier as well as water mixing zones at different latitudes, and the teleconnections between the two regions.
14 Diciembre 2015
On 14 December, a Chinese delegation will visit the ICM, comprising senior representatives of two Chinese institutes, the National Space Science Center (NSSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) with his deputy director general and director of CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing (MiRS) Prof. Dong Xiaolong, and the National Satellite Ocean Application Center (NSOAS) of China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) with its director general Prof. Jiang Xingwei, to present the rencently approved satellite "Ocean Salinity Mission" (scheduled for launche in 2019) and discuss future collaborations with the SMOS-BEC
14 Diciembre 2015
Time:
18:30
Impartida por:
Josep Lluís Pelegrí
Filiación:
DOFT-ICM
Ubicación:
Residència d'Investigadors, carrer Hospital 64, Barcelona
26 Noviembre 2015
The International Excellence Campus of the Sea and the University of Cádiz have joined forces to bring to the Santa Catalina castle of this city the exhibition "Malaspina: from the original expedition (1789-1794) to the oceanographic cruise (2010-2011"). This ancient fortress will host until next January 8, 2016 a rigorous retrospective on the original expedition led by Alejandro Malaspina in the late eighteenth century, and a presentation of the results of the oceanographic circumnavigation cruise conducted in 2010-2011 aboard Hesperides and Sarmiento de Gamboa research vessels that traveled 42,000 nautical miles around the world and in whose scientific teams researchers from the Cadiz University and the IEC-Sea played an important role.
The exhibition is complemented by a series of lectures given by top researchers, to be held at the San Juan hall of Santa Catalina castle.
Time:
18:00
Impartida por:
Dr. Josep L. Pelegrí
Filiación:
ICM-CSIC
Ubicación:
Castillo de Santa Catalina, Cádiz
More information: Universidad de Cádiz
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