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PLOCAN announces the 15th Glider School edition
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) convenes the 15th edition of the Glider School, an international reference training forum in ocean-glider technology, to be held from October 20th to 24th in Telde, Gran Canaria. The period application submission is already open until June 30th. More information through the event website http://www.gliderschool.eu. The didactic
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PLOCAN signs the agreement for the constitution of the aggregated ICTS MARHIS
PLOCAN’s Test Site has joined the MARHIS Aggregated Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS) together with the Integrated Coastal Infrastructures for Experimentation and Simulation (iCIEM) of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the Great Basin of Maritime Engineering of Cantabria (GTIM -CCOB) of the Foundation Institute for Environmental Hydraulics of Cantabria, the El Pardo Hydrodynamics Experiences
GROOM II project for the European Infrastructure for Research, Observation and Management based on ocean gliders
Fourteen organizations across Europe started a new EU HORIZON 2020 Project under the Developing New World-Class Research Infrastructures Programme. Gliders for Research, Ocean Observation and Management Infrastructure and Innovation (GROOM II) is a three-year long project led by theAssociation pour la Recherche et le Développement des Méthodes et Processus Industriels of France (ARMINES), with PLOCAN
ALERION TECHNOLOGIES tests its new system for wind turbine inspection at PLOCAN
PLOCAN’s Test Site has been chosen by ALERION TECHNOLOGIES S.L. to undertake the tests of inspection and maintenance of offshore wind turbines in a real operational scenario. The tests will be developed within the framework of the European project WEGOOI of the Horizon 2020 programme, with the aim of drastically reducing the costs of inspection
Call for employment: technologist for Scientific-Technical Area – Blue Economy Project Cabildo GC
It is a temporary employment contract, associated with the subsidy granted by Resolution 51/20, of October 27, 2020 by the Cabildo of Gran Canaria with file number “Blue Economy (MINECO – Agreement 2018)” for the development of Actions within the framework of an experimental and comprehensive program of research and economic activities related to the
Fred Olsen Renewables and PLOCAN test a floating solar power plant
Fred Olsen Renewables and the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) will test offshore floating solar power in Canarian waters within the framework of the EU BOOST (Bringing Offshore Ocean Sun to the global market) project. The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) participates in the EU BOOST project (Bringing Offshore Ocean Sun
PLOCAN, the IEO and the ULPGC renew the main ocean observatory in the Canary Islands
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the support of the oceanographic vessel Ramón Margalef, which belongs to the IEO, have renewed the European Oceanic Time Series Station in the Canary Islands (ESTOC), a marine observation infrastructure located
Wavepiston installs a wave energy converter at PLOCAN’s Test Site
The Danish company Wavepiston has installed two full-scale modules of its wave energy converter (WEC) at the Test Site of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN). Their device allows the conversion of wave motion into electricity and desalinated water. The access to the test site has been supported by the Blue-GIFT project, funded
PLOCAN’s fleet sails 18,000 miles in science and observation missions in 2020
The autonomous vehicles of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) sailed nearly 18,000 nautical miles in 2020 in nine scientific and observation missions, which involved 255 days of operations and the simultaneous control of four vehicles at sea. In 2020 the glider activity in PLOCAN’S Integrated Observatory and its surrounding areas included several
An underwater glider of PLOCAN finds a Mediterranean water eddy “Meddie” between the eastern Canary Islands
An underwater glider Slocum G2 has found a Mediterranean water eddy (“Meddie”) of an approximate dimension of the island of Gran Canaria near the western coasts of the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura during the last seasonal mission of the year developed between the European Station for Time-series in the Ocean (ESTOC), located 60 miles
The economist Fernando Redondo, exemplary person for his public and solidarity vocation, passed away
The economist Fernando Redondo Rodríguez, member of the Advisory Committee for Socioeconomic Activities of PLOCAN (CASE), former Minister of Territorial Policy of the Government of the Canary Islands, former deputy of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, former president of the Economic and Social Council and former dean of the College of Economists of Las