A team of eight scientific and technical staff members from PLOCAN, ULPGC and the engineering company TRAGSATEC have performed the oceanographic cruise PLOCAN-1310 in Canary Islands waters.
The cruise has been carried out from the research vessel Ángeles Alvariño between October 6th and 10th to cover the autumn seasonal sampling at the PLOCAN’s coastal (Test site) and deep-ocean (ESTOC, European Station for Time-series in the Ocean) nodes, within the framework of the permanent monitoring program performed in this area through a wide range of cutting-edge ocean observing platforms, both autonomous and from research vessels.
The research took place in the context of international projects and programs related to marine observations like FixO3 (Fixed Point Open Ocean Observatories Network), ICOS (European Research Infrastructure for the Integrated Carbon Observation System), and EMSO-ESONET (European Infrastructure of Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatories), among others.
The work plan, mainly by hydrographic and geophysical nature, involved the use of different devices and instruments for measuring and sampling oceanographic variables (temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH, salinity, ...) to depths close to 4000 meters in some cases and also atmospheric (aerosols).
Detailed geophysical studies off the Southeast coast of Gran Canaria have been also carried out, whose results will support future actions within the context of NER 300program, which funds installations of innovative renewable energy technologies and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
