Scientific news

Biological invasions have become major players in the current biodiversity crisis, but realistic tools to predict which species will establish successful populations are still unavailable.

An international team of scientists from Italy, Spain and the United States, with the participation of the Institute of Marine de Barcelona (CSIC) e Pompeu Fabra University, developed a method to predict how quickly and easily can develop invasive alien species populations .

From 16 to 19 September, the ICM will host in Barcelona an ICREA workshop on climate during the Pliocene and implications for the future, jointly organized by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the ICM.

From July 24 to 26, ICM is hosting in Barcelona the 3rd meeting of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). GOOS is a permanent global system for observations, modelling and analysis of marine and ocean variables to support operational ocean services worldwide.

From July 21 to 23, ICM is hosting in Barcelona the 17th meeting of the Ocean Observation Panel for Climate (OOPC). The mission of this international panel is to develop recommendations for a sustained global observation of the oceans in relation to climate. In order to do so, OOPC provides support to global ocean observation activities, monitors the evolution of present systems and draws the needs for future observational implementation.

The second edition of the “Ramon Margalef Summer Colloquia” has finished on Friday 18th of July at the Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC) with a closing event open to general public where the students of the Colloquia have presented the conclusions of the Colloquia.

From 7th to 18th July the Marine Sciences Institute CSIC from Barcelona lodges for second year the international course Ramon Margalef Summer Colloquia. This edition is included in the events of the commemoration of the tenth death of Ramon Margalef under the motto «What ecology can learn from natural and human-induced disturbances. A cross-system view» and the main topic is ecology in a multidisciplinar way as the scientific Ramon Margalef worked.