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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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‘EDUROVs in Macaronesia’ pilot project
The ‘EDUROVs in Macaronesia’ initiative has started within the framework of the Blue Growth pilot project included in the RIS3_NET (Interregional Co-operation for the Intelligent Growth of the MAC Regions) project and the activities for promoting the Macaronesian R&D&I related to the Blue Growth Strategy of the European Commission. EDUROVs Macaronesia is included in the
Kick Off Meeting of the MARCET II project at the Elder Museum of Science and Technology
The INTERREG project known as MARCET starts its second phase with the development of various scientific and technological research studies in order to evaluate and analyse during the next three years the human activity impact on the marine protected areas of the Macaronesian Atlantic using cetaceans as bioindicators of the marine environmental quality of the
PLOCAN and UTEK conduct preliminary trials of an unmanned autonomous vessel
The PLOCAN marine test-site has been the scenario that has hosted the first operational tests in open waters of an unmanned autonomous vessel addressed for environmental monitoring applications developed by the Spanish company UTEK. The concept and design are based on a commercial rubber-boat model of 6.7 meters in length suited by 175 hp outboard
Closure meeting of the MARCET project to protect and monitor cetaceans in the Macaronesia
The “Macaronesian Network for Cross-border Knowledge and Technology Transfer to protect, supervise and monitor cetaceans in the marine environment, and to explore and exploit the related tourism in a sustainable way” (MARCET) project, co-funded by the first call for projects of INTERREG (MAC/1.1b/149) concluded with a closure meeting celebrated at the Poema del Mar Aquarium
MARUM, UPC and PLOCAN test OpenDAM within the framework of the oceanographic mission ADELANTE
The Center for Marine Environmental Sciences of Germany MARUM and PLOCAN launched a WaveGlider – SV3 in the waters of the observatory of the ESTOC European Station for Time series in the Ocean of the Canary Islands, located 70 miles North of Gran Canaria, in order to validate the new OpenDAM ocean data acquisition and
General Assembly of partners of the iFADO project and operational activities in Azores
The General Assembly of partners of the European iFADO (Innovation in the Framework of the Atlantic Deep Ocean) Project, which belongs to the Interreg Atlantic Programme and which is designed mainly to detect and cover the gaps in existing observation in the framework of the Atlantic Deep Ocean, was held in Horta (Azores). The Assembly
End of the KOSMOS GC 2019 study at PLOCAN within the framework of the Ocean artUp project
The KOSMOS GC 2019 study at PLOCAN’s Test Site has ended successfully after two months of activity. During these 7 weeks, 35 scientists and researchers have developed the KOSMOS GC 2019 study, led by GEOMAR (Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel). During these weeks, eight mesocosm bags were deployed in Taliarte harbour and were filled
Saildrone – ATL2MED international scientific-technological mission launched
Two autonomous surface vehicles Saildrone, equipped with a set of meteorological and oceanographic sensors on board, have left the port of Taliarte, in Gran Canaria, within the framework of the international initiative “From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean” (ATL2MED) that coordinates the European Research Infrastructure of the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS-RI). The Saildrones have
The W2POWER prototype test is successfully completed in the PLOCAN test site.
On 17 October 2019, the W2POWER prototype, the first multi-turbine wind floating platform in Spain designed by the Spanish company ENEROCEAN S.L., was decommissioned from the PLOCAN’s Test Site. This test was developed between June 2019 and October 2019, focused on a 1:6 scale prototype, aiming to collect information from different parameters that will allow
The manned submersible ICTINEU 3 dives into PLOCAN’S Test Site
The manned submersible ICTINEU 3 of ICTINEU Submarins S.L. has started a series of dives into the waters of the Test Site of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, using the functionalities of the facility during its first Atlantic open water operation. The ICTINEU 3 was moved from the harbour of Taliarte (Telde –