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Dr. Carles Bas, during the 2015 Christmas concert held at the ICM
On December 14th, a Chinese delegation led by Professor JIANG Xingwei, director-general of the National Satellite Ocean Application Service (NSOAS, State Oceanic Administration of China), and Professor DONG Xiaolong, assistant director-general of the National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSSC, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and director of the CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing (MiRS), visited ICM.
Fishermen and scientists work together to mitigate the impact of trawling on the seafloor of PalamosThe ICM and the Fishermen's Association of Palamos are working together in a study funded by the Diputació de Girona to assess the impact of different models of trawl doors on the seafloor.
Quick loss of sediments
A general principle of biology is that all cell membranes are built from phospholipids, i.e. lipids containing phosphorus. Until recently it was thought that these molecules were essential to the functioning of the cell. However, a few exceptions have been discovered in recent years: some higher plants and marine microalgae can substitute their phospholipids with non-phosphorus lipids when the availability of this essential nutrient is low.
A scientific study reveals that the aging process in marine copepods is linked to an increase in cellular oxidative damage. Moreover, overeating increases mortality rates and shortens the life of these components of the plankton. These are the main results that a team of scientists from the ICM, in collaboration with researchers from Greece, Brazil and Germany, has published in Scientific Reports, a multidisciplinary journal of the prestigious Nature group.
More than a hundred scientists and experts from Europe, USA and Australia met from 28th to 30th October in Barcelona to celebrate the third edition of the General Assembly of the European Association of Citizen Science (ECSA), and to discuss the most important challenges of this field for the coming years. The meeting was organized by the same ECSA, the OpenSystems research group at the Universitat de Barcelona, the Barcelona Lab of the Citizen Science Office of the Barcelona City Council and the ICM.