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The Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) participates in ResBios European with the objective of acquiring experience to implement sustainable and lasting Responsible Research and Innovation measures that generate structural changes in the institution.

The Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) publishes a report on the impacts of the Storm Gloria storm on the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Images captured by underwater robots reveal the existence of very dense and diverse benthic communities; large coral colonies, hundreds or thousands years old; and very well developed benthic ecosystems, at depths of up to 1100 meters. The project, led by the Institute of Marine Sciences of the CSIC, studies the effect of trawling on these ecosystems and will help to establish measures that make fishing compatible with the preservation of these ecosystems.

The Institut de Ciències del Mar coordinates Cos4Cloud, an ambitious European project that will create cutting-edge technology services to improve citizen science platforms.

Understanding how earthquakes occur is one of the main open questions in the field of seismology. Decades of research have not been enough to establish a model to predict earthquake’s behaviour neither to explain the systematic variation of the properties of their seismic rupture observed according to the depth where they initiate. This situation has often led to underestimate their capacity to generate tsunamis, making it difficult to develop early warning systems in areas affected by large and great earthquakes.