Presentación del Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) en la jornada CMN de Investigación en el Mediterráneo, celebrada en la UPCT el 26 de noviembre de 2012.

1. INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE
OCEANOGRAFÍA (IEO)
SPANISH INSTITUTE OF
OCEANOGRAPHY
JORNADA MEDITERRANEAN KNOW-HOW CMN
INVESTIGACIÓN EN EL MEDITERRÁNEO
CIM, UPCT, Cartagena 26 de noviembre de 2012

2. •Tasks
•History
•Facilities & Personnel:
•Oceanographic centres
•Support services
•Research facilities: ships, tide-gauges,
experimental laboratories, aquaculture plants
•Research and Scientific Advice:
•Marine Environment
•Aquaculture
•Fisheries

3. Tasks:
IEO is a governmental research organization devoted to:
• Oceanographic research (including marine pollution,
fisheries and aquaculture).
• Advice the Spanish Government on its oceanographic
and fishery policies.
• Representation of Spain in international
oceanography and fishery organisations.
• Promotion of co-operation in marine research at the
regional, national and international levels.
• Training oceanographers and disseminating
oceanographic knowlegde.
•

4. History:
A long tradition since 1914
Oceanographic cruise in 1916
Santander Marine Biology Laboratory (1886)
Prof. Odón de Buen

5. Facilities and personnel:
•Geographic distribution: coastal laboratories and a central
headquarter in Madrid
•Dedicated research facilities: research vessels, aquaculture
plants, tide-gauge network, satellite image reception station
•Personnel: more than 400 permanent staff (plus ca. 200
temporal contracts).
CO Murcia staff
– 19 Researchers (14 PhDs)
Administration
– 1-3 Investigadores Post-Doc
– 6-10 PhD students
– 2-10 PG students
– 45 technicians and administrative
staff.

6. a nation-wide network
•Headquarter (Madrid)
•Nine Oceanographic Centres
•Four Aquaculture Plants

7. Murcia Oceanographic Centre
Murcia Oceanographic Centre carried out research on
fisheries, marine environment and aquaculture since 1966.
• Marine Laboratory (Fisheries & marine environment) –
San Pedro del Pinatar.
• Aquaculture Plant – Mazarron.
•Aquaculture Tank for bluefin spawners (in construction)
– Isla Plana, Cartagena.
Aquaculture Plant. Mazarrón
Marine Laboratory. San Pedro del Pinatar

8. Structure:
Administration and finance Science management
Oceanographic Centres
Organization

9. Support services:
• International Relationships
• National Relationships
• Research Training
• Research Ship Management
• Library / Documentation Center
• Publications
• Information Technologies
• Financial Services
• Contracts and Management
• Human Resources

10. Specific research facilities:
•Research ships
•Tide-gaude network
•Experimental laboratories
•Aquaculture plants
•Satellite Imagery
•IOC-IEO Science and Comunication Centre
on Harmful Algal Blooms
•Oceanographic and Fishery Data Centre

11. A fleet of oceanographic vessels operated by IEO .....
24 m
16 m
31 m 67 m
B/O Cornide de Saavedra

12. ... and granted access to research ships
operated by other agencies
IFREMER 74 m
(France)
R/V Thalassa
CSIC - Spanish Navy
Ministry of Fisheries (Spain)
B/O Vizconde de Eza 53 m BIO Hespérides 83 m

13. A tide-gauge network...
Santander
A Coruña
Vigo
Palma de
Mallorca
Sta. Cruz de Arrecife
La Palma
Cádiz
Tarifa Málaga
Ceuta Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
... allows the study of sea level changes

14. Aquaculture plants
Murcia (Fish) Vigo (Fish)
Santander (Macroalgae) Santander (Fish)

15. Satellite Imagery

16. Spanish Oceanographic and
Fisheries Data Centre (CEDO)
•Database management, including the development of
formats and protocols for data exchange
•Oceanographic and fishery data storage
•Data exchange with national and international data base
systems
•Development of data products and metadata archives
•Regional atlas (statistics and climatological information)
•Software (maps and data management)

17. Research Divisions:
• Marine environment
• Fisheries and
Renewable resources
• Marine aquaculture

18. Marine environment
• Temporal variability and trends of oceanographic
conditions and biological communities
• Oceanographic processes in relation to living marine
resources
• Harmful marine organisms
• Levels, trends and effects of pollutants on marine
resources
• Marine biodiversity (Coastal and Oceanic Areas)
• Geological study of continental margins and deep sea
basins
• Effects of human activities on marine ecosystems

19. Marine Environment
• Marine Pollution and Biological Effects:
– Monitoring of pollutants along the
mediterranean coast.
– Bioindicators of pollutants.
– Regulated and emergent pollutants in Mar
Menor lagoon.
Collecting mussels Analysing pollutants in the lab

20. Marine Environment
• Biodiversity and coastal ecology:
– Ecology of Seagrasses.
– Ecology of Jellyfish.
– Ecotoxicology of bivalvs
– Seahorse and other Vulnerable species
– Marine Protected Areas.
Feeding a seahorse in the lab
Sampling posidonia in the seagrass

21. Fisheries and Renewable Resources
• Biology and dynamics of exploited species
• Stock assessment of species of interest for the Spanish
fleet
• Improvement of the metodology of stock assessment
cruises
• Finding and exploration of new fishing grounds
Tuna

22. Fisheries and Renewable Resources
• Marine exploited ecosystem:
– Bycatch and discards. Impact of fishing on the
ecosystem.
– Biogeography and spatial ecology.
– Stock assessment.
– Research surveys.
– Small-scale fisheries.
Spatial model – Anchovy distribution
Research survey - fishing

23. Marine aquaculture
• Improvement of culture techniques in commercially
exploited species (fish, molluscs, seaweeds).
• Development of culture techniques in species already
tested for aquaculture, but not yet commercially
exploited.
• Biology and development of experimental-scale
rearing techniques of species potentially suitable for
aquaculture
• Production of species in captivity oriented to research
or biodiversity protection

24. Marine aquaculture
• Mediterranean aquaculture
– Bluefin aquaculture
– Genetic, inmunology and nutrition on
aquaculture
– Aquaculture and zootecnia of new species of
the Mediterranean
Bluefin specimens in a cage
Dentón de 26 días

25. Thanks for your
attention
For more information please go to:
• www.ieo.es
• www.mu.ieo.es (with a video in spanish
and english)