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Job vacancies

Open call for 9 indefinite-term employment positions to work at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN).

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We build, equip and operate a set of marine infrastructures for research in the field of marine sciences and technologies.

The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) is a public Consortium created in 2007 between the then Ministry of Education and Science, now Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO), and the Government of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, with the aim of building, equipping and operating a set of marine infrastructures for research in the field of marine sciences and technologies.

NEWS

PLOCAN joins the Oceans IEE-MTS 2024 conference

PLOCAN joins the Oceans IEE-MTS 2024 conference

The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has joined the OCEANS 2024 IEEE/MTS conference, a biannual international forum that seeks to advance and promote ocean sciences and technologies in interdisciplinary fields from a public-private perspective through the participation of leading institutions and companies of the sector. Promoted by the international organisations Ocean Engineering Society

READ ARTICLE 24/04/2024
PLOCAN presents its contribution to the 10 challenges of the Decade of the Oceans at the Barcelona Conference

PLOCAN presents its contribution to the 10 challenges of the Decade of the Oceans at the Barcelona Conference

READ ARTICLE 17/04/2024
PLOCAN announces the XIV Glider School edition

PLOCAN announces the XIV Glider School edition

READ ARTICLE 16/04/2024
The AMOC at the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Santa Cruz de La Palma

The AMOC at the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Santa Cruz de La Palma

READ ARTICLE 12/04/2024

SERVICES

Data service

It consists of providing the data acquired by a set of Lagrangian observation systems, mainly based on autonomous marine vehicles and drifter buoys.

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Hosting service

Testing capabilities are offered, at various scales, for experimental fixed and floating devices, special structures, testing of components in the marine environment, operational performance testing of marine technologies, optimisation of equipment at sea and, in general, any testing of experimental technologies, concepts or services in the marine environment.

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Marine technical operations service with VIMAS

The VIMAS facility provides access to the fleet of gliders, ROVs and ASVs based in the Canary Islands.

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Marine operations service on the Offshore Ocean Platform

The Offshore Ocean Platform facility provides efficient access to the ocean at increasing depths in an environmentally sustainable manner.

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