The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) convenes the 16th edition of the Glider School, an international reference training forum in ocean-glider technology, to be held from October 19th to 23rd 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
An extensive and multidisciplinary public-private consortium made up of 55 members linked to the observation, data management and ocean modeling celebrated in Brussels the EuroSea project Kick-off Meeting, which responds to an innovation action which receives 12.6 million € from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. The EuroSea coordinator, Dr. Toste Tanhua, from GEOMAR –
PLOCAN has launched the 2019/2020 edition of the Marine Robotics Workshop, developed within the EDUROVs Marine Robotics Educational Initiative with the collaboration of “La Caixa” Foundation and the Cabildo of Gran Canaria. The workshops will take place at the land facilities of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands until May 2020 with the attendance
Eduardo Balguerías Guerra, director of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), highlighted that the study of the ocean is essential for the climate regulation during the opening of the commemorative meeting on the 25th anniversary of the European Oceanic Time Series Station in the Canary Islands, located in the North of Gran Canaria. Octavio Llinás,
The director of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, Octavio Llinás, has announced during the commemorative meeting of the 25th anniversary of ESTOC that José Joaquín Hernández Brito (Executive Board Member / CEO of AIR Centre) will fill the position of director of PLOCAN in January 2020. José Joaquín Hernández Brito holds a first
The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (COCI) visited the offshore platform of PLOCAN accompanied by the director of PLOCAN, Octavio Llinás. The visit took place during the annual meeting where the Committee provides advice on the scientific and technical activities of PLOCAN. During the visit, Dr. Alicia Lavín, Prof. Gerold Wefer, Prof. Christopher Barnes and
The partners of the ‘Consolidation of the Central Atlantic Alliance for the competitiveness of SMEs in the blue economy’ (SmartBlueF) project attended to the Kick-off Meeting at the Cámara de Comercio do Norte in Mindelo. During the meeting the attendees presented their entities and they delved into the knowledge of the project. They examined the
PLOCAN participated with the EDUROVs Marine Robotics Educational Initiative in the Mini Fair of Gran Canaria, which is included in the Science & Innovations Weeks 2019 in the Canary Islands, which are organised by the Canarian Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society (ACIISI) of the Government of the Canary Islands. The event took place
A Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicle, from the PLOCAN fleet, has been put into operation in waters near Faial Island in Azores for a monitoring mission within the framework of the European project “Innovation in the Deep Atlantic Ocean Framework (iFADO )” where it will sail almost a thousand nautical miles to the island of
The Consular Body of the Canary Islands attended to the talk given by the director of PLOCAN, Octavio Llinás, at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands in order to disseminate the activities developed by PLOCAN and to inform about the specific actions that are developed with some countries that were represented by the consuls
Students of Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree at the School of Industrial and Civil Engineering (EIIC) of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), together with their professor in Electronic Instrumentation, have visited the PLOCAN Consortium onshore headquarters. The visit is part of the training content of the master’s degree aiming to show students