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PLOCAN distinguished with the Offshore Wind Award by the Offshore Wind Congress
The 2nd Offshore Wind Congress held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has distinguished the Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias with the Offshore Wind Award for being an independent reference as a pioneering test platform in the technological development of flotation solutions. The jury has assessed that PLOCAN plays a decisive role in the Canary Islands
PLOCAN joins the Marine Autonomy and Technology Showcase – MATS 2023
The headquarters of the National Oceanographic Center of the United Kingdom (NOC) in Southampton, hosts a new edition of the technology forum on Marine Autonomy Systems (MATS 2023) that brings together leading manufacturers and operators in this sector representing the developing industry, service providers, academia, research, government agencies and regulatory entities of these cutting-edge marine
PLOCAN at TechOceans Executive Board meeting, for the development of a new ocean-sensors generation.
The TechOceanS EU-project, in which PLOCAN participates, will actively collaborate with scientists, manufacturers, stakeholders and resource managers leading efforts to improve the measurement of “Essential Ocean Variables” through the development of a new generation of ocean sensors integrated into both fixed and mobile autonomous ocean platforms. The new technologies developed in the project will enable
XIII PLOCAN Glider School
The Marine Autonomous Vehicles Area (VIMAS) of the Canary Islands Ocean Platform (PLOCAN) organized the 13th edition of the Glider School, an international initiative for the improvement of knowledge and development of marine autonomous vehicles and the consolidation of PLOCAN as gliderport infrastructure in the North of the Atlantic. Students from Nigeria (FUTA), Brazil (National
EuroGOOS Conference 2023
The Marine Institute of Ireland held the 10th EuroGOOS International Conference in Galway with the title “European Operational Oceanography for the Ocean we want – Addressing the UN Ocean Decade Challenges”, as Ocean Decade endorsed event. The event brought together over 160 participants for an in-person Conference covering all aspects of operational oceanography and its
The USV-Mission Atlantic unmanned vehicle arrives in the Canary Islands after completing a two-month scientific mission in Macaronesia
The Mission Atlantic’s USV-WaveGlider unmanned vehicle has been picked up by PLOCAN staff in waters of Taliarte after completing 1,200 nautical miles and 78 continuous days of scientific mission collecting 3D information on essential ocean variables (physical, chemical and biological), as well as map biodiversity and pressures in areas of special sensitivity in the North
Macaronight 2023 at the European Researchers’ Night
The “European Researchers’ Night” hosted the celebration of Macaronight 2023, whose main objective is to bring science and technology closer to citizens, especially the younger public, in order to raise awareness of the work of researchers in the Macaronesia region and its impact on everyday life. The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) participated
EMSO-ESTOC seasonal glider program for ocean observation in the Canary Islands
PLOCAN, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) continue to collaboratively promote and reinforce the ocean observation strategy in the Canary Islands through the seasonal program of glider missions at the ESTOC Time Series (deep node of the PLOCAN Integrated Observatory as member of the European
OCEANS 2023 Gulfport MTS-IEEE-OES Conference
The Oceanic Platform of the Islands Ocean Platform (PLOCAN) has joined in the OCEANS 2023 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
PLOCAN at the conference “The SDGs in the professionalization of the blue economy” and at the final meeting of the Bluefishing Training project
PLOCAN participated in the conference “The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the professionalization of the Blue Economy” at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Vigo in the framework of the BlueFishing Training project highlighting the relevance of the SDGs in the context of the blue economy, which focuses on the sustainability of activities related