Scientific news

From 26 to 29 November 2013 the Marine Sciences Institute hosted the I Symposium on Integrating New Advances in Oceanography and Marine Biology Mediterranean (MEDOCEAN) with the aim to address the latest scientific advances related to marine science in the Mediterranean, especially from a dynamic perspective and with an outlook into future changes.
 

Today, October 21, the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, delivery Ramon Margalef Prize for Ecology 2013 to Professor Sallie W. Chisholm during a ceremony at the Palau de la Generalitat

Ramon Margalef Prize for Ecology, promoted by the Generalitat of Catalonia, is inspired by the figure of Ramon Margalef (1919-2004), one of the most renowned ecologists worldwide.

Scientists at the Institut de Ciències del Mar from Barcelona (ICM-CSIC) and at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Australia), have identified a new family of unicellular microalgae belonging to the dinoflagellates group. The new family has been called Ceratoperidiniaceae, after its first species that was described, Ceratoperidinium margalefii. The work, which has been published on-line at the Protist magazine, has been led by Esther Garcés, scientist at the CSIC, and the first author is Albert Reñé, doctoral student.

A new species of the generus Mysidopsis (Crustacea, Mysida, Mysidae) has been described based on specimens sampled with a suprabenthic sled near a Posidonia oceànica meadow located near the coastal city of Mataró in 2001 (station Mataró II) and in 2011 (station Mataró III). The new species inhabits the soft-bottom suprabenthic habitat close to this meadow, at depths between 17 and 21 m.