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PLOCAN tests an AI-powered optical sensor to detect microplastics in the ocean
The Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN) is collaborating with the Catalan technology center LEITAT to validate an optical sensor equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) capable of detecting microplastics in real time in the ocean. Microplastics, particles smaller than five millimeters found in oceans worldwide, pose a growing challenge to biodiversity, coastal management, and human health.
PLOCAN presents its educational projects EduBlue and EduSen at the EMSEA Conference 2025 in Belgium
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) is participating this week in the EMSEA Conference 2025, one of Europe’s leading forums on marine education, held from 15 to 18 September in Ostend, Belgium. Organised by the European Marine Science Educators’ Association (EMSEA), the conference brings together professionals from the scientific, educational, and institutional sectors
The ATLAS Project Turns Submarine Cables into “Ears” to Protect the Atlantic
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) is coordinating the European ATLAS project (Atlantic Tracking with Lightwave Acoustic Sensing) in the Archipelago, an initiative that strengthens Europe’s role at the forefront of ocean observation and environmental protection in the Atlantic arc. ATLAS transforms existing submarine fiber optic cables into a network of acoustic sensors
Tourism and PLOCAN explore synergies to boost scientific tourism and the blue economy
The Canary Islands Government’s Minister of Tourism and Employment, Jessica de León, and the Director of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), José Joaquín Hernández Brito, held a meeting at PLOCAN’s shore-based headquarters to analyse potential synergies and collaborative projects to drive scientific tourism and the blue economy in the Canary Islands. During
PLOCAN participates in the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference EWTEC 2025 in Madeira
A delegation from PLOCAN, led by Joaquín Hernández Brito, is taking part this week in the 16th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2025), held from 7 to 11 September in Funchal, Madeira. After hosting previous editions in Lisbon (1995) and Porto (2007), the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC) and Instituto Superior Técnico are
Monitoring programme of the waters of Tazacorte (La Palma Island) with PLOCAN’s fleet of underwater gliders within the framework of the DELTA project
The surrounding waters the new lava deltas on the coast of Tazacorte, La Palma, keeps hosting diverse studies of different scope by the national and international scientific community, which represents and converts this area into a natural laboratory of unique characteristics for the development and application of ocean sciences and technologies, the context in which
PLOCAN Drives the Canary Islands’ energy transition with green hydrogen certification for over one hundred professionals
Specializations delivered over four months through the five courses organized under the H2Verde project attract interest from 400 participants
Pequeño Valiente extends its summer camp to PLOCAN
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) joined this year’s program designed by the Pequeño Valiente association for its summer camp, opening its facilities to around thirty boys and girls from the organization and their families. The group had the opportunity to visit PLOCAN’s onshore headquarters and learn about the work carried out by
Validation tests of the PERSEO unmanned system for marine-pollutants detection
The port of Granadilla on the island of Tenerife has been the operational setting where the validation tests of the Pandora multispectral camera have been successfully carried out, developed by the University Institute of Applied Microelectronics (IUMA) of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) within the framework of the PERSEO project (Solar
The oceanographic institute of Flanders tests at PLOCAN new technological developments
The PLOCAN test-site’s waters host this week operational tests by the Belgian institution Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) of a SeaExplorer underwater glider equipped with a novel prototype sensor system for measuring essential ocean variables. The main objective of the activity is to carry out a complete validation of the functionality of the underwater glider systems