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04/04/2024

ECOAQUA warns of the danger of extinction of limpets in Macaronesia, due to the lack of respect for the measures imposed for their conservation

Although it has been regulated, shellfishing represents a significant threat to limpets, burgados and other mollusks that...
02/02/2024

The Cabildo of Lanzarote and the ULPGC present the Amplía Project, marine study of the eastern islands

The ECOAQUA institute of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with the collaboration of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and...
26/01/2024

CSIC research, in collaboration with ECOAQUA, analyzes the impact of wildfires on marine ecosystems

The Desertification Research Center (CIDE, CSIC- UV-GVA) presents the main ideas and questions to be solved with this new...
13/12/2023

The PLASMAR+ project presents its final results after four years of research in the Marine Spatial Planning of the Canary Islands

This research has allowed, among other things, the creation of the INDIMAR web tool, which has been extremely useful for the...
11/12/2023

ECOAQUA presents a project to balance fishing and sustainability in the marine ecosystems of the eastern Canary Islands

Under the acronym AMPLÍA, the initiative aims to analyze the maritime areas included in the Biosphere Reserves of Gran...
21/11/2023

ECOAQUA brings research on the fragmentation of Canary Islands marine habitats to the State University of New York

The study analyzes the algal ecosystems of the Gran Canaria intertidal to determine the effects of habitat fragmentation on...
02/11/2023

The Ocean Citizen project experiments with Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture systems in Tenerife

The ECOAQUA Institute of the ULPGC participates in the project, which seeks to improve the health of marine ecosystems,...
19/09/2023

Researchers from the Canary Islands carry out acoustic tagging of 18 rays in the Archipelago’s coasts

FOR THE FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR, SCIENTISTS FROM THE LORO PARQUE FOUNDATION, ULPGC AND RAYS OF PARADISE, PLACE ACOUSTIC...
24/07/2023

The Marine SABRES project held a consultation focused on the conservation of the coastal marine ecosystem of Gran Canaria

The Biodiversity and Conservation Group of the University Institute of Sustainable Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems (ECOAQUA)...
19/07/2023

The ECOAQUA Institute, of the ULPGC, participates in a European project to evaluate seahorse populations

With funding from the Biodiversity Foundation, the EUROSYNG project will explore for the next three years with the best...
12/07/2023

ECOAQUA was awarded with the distinction of best elevator-pitch and commercialisation plan for an early-stage technology in the EMPORIA4KT BLUE ECONOM

The award was given to the joint work of a group of three researchers from the ULPGC University Institute, ITC and Aarhus...
20/06/2023

ECOAQUA presents its research on the ocean at FIMAR

The BIOCON and EOMAR research groups, with three of their researchers, participate in the fair to disseminate the work carried...
21/04/2023

ECOAQUA researchers warn of the risk posed to some fish by the absence of protection of black coral forests

The research published in Scientific Reports determines that 60% of fish species recorded live in the mesophotic zone and 15%...
03/03/2023

ECOAQUA participates in a study that shows that the Canary Islands have already lost half of their seagrasses, with a high impact on carbon sequestrat

Three scientists from the Biodiversity and Conservation group (BIOCON) of the Institute for Research in Sustainable...
27/02/2023

MAC-RODO project, focused on the particular rhodolith (maerl) ecosystem and its carbon sequestration capacity, ends

The MAC-RODO project, funded by the European program LIFE4BEST, has studied the biodiversity and ecosystem services of...
15/02/2023

The ULPGC discusses the sustainability challenges faced by the islands to keep sustainable growth in the tourism

This week the Piedra Lounge of the Rectorate of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) hosts the course...
03/02/2023

The CanBio project of the University Institute ECOAQUA continues for another year to study in more detail elasmobranchs in the Islands

After four years of scientific activities, the CanBio project, led by the Institute for Research in Sustainable Aquaculture...
31/01/2023

An University Institute ECOAQUA study takes methodological approach to offshore wind energy installation from the Canary Islands to Estonia

The planning developed for the waters of the island of Hiiu, in the Baltic country, is based on the methodology developed by...
19/01/2023

An University Institute ECOAQUA course focusing on islands such as Gran Canaria will analyse the main challenges for their development and sustainabil

With the title 'Environmental Management on the Islands: Challenges and Sustainability', the institute of the ULPGC...
15/12/2022

The Canary Archipelago advances in the management of its marine coastal space thanks to the help of the University institute ECOAQUA of the ULPGC

The institute has recently participated in the '1st Conference on 'The Marine Coastal Space of the Canary Islands: Planning...
14/12/2022

DEEP LIFE completes research campaign on underwater black coral forests on the Islands

The expedition, which has studied depths never before explored in the archipelago with autonomous diving, has got to know the...
14/11/2022

The University Institute ECOAQUA presents the DEEP LIFE project, which explores the underwater forests of the Canary Islands

The Assembly Hall of the Humanities Building of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) will host next Thursday,...
02/11/2022

Research on black coral at "Playa Chica", Lanzarote, attracts French national television

During this week the research campaign by the University Institute ECOAQUA of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria...
17/10/2022

Ricardo Haroun takes office as Director of University Institute ECOAQUA

Last Friday, October 14th, at the Institutional Headquarters of the ULPGC, the Rector Lluís Serra Majem, together with the...
13/10/2022

The University Institute ECOAQUA highlights its scientific advances at the Aquaculture Europe Congress 2022

During its development, Dr. Daniel Montero presented the results of the AQUAIMPACT project, which will allow increasing the...
05/10/2022

The CanBIO project progresses with a ground-breaking study of butterfly rays in Canary Islands waters

This is the first time in history that the gestational stage of this critically endangered species has been diagnosed by...
30/09/2022

The ACUSQUAT II project lead by ULPGC, analyse the migratory patterns of the angelsharks in the Canary Islands

The research lead by the University Institute ECOAQUA, in collaboration with IU-SIANI, has created a coastal monitoring...
21/09/2022

Ricardo Haroun will be the director of ECOAQUA for the next four years

The ULPGC professor belongs to the University for more than 32 years, and his management team includes Dr. May Gómez Cabrera...
19/09/2022

A researcher from the ULPGC participates in a study to promote the conservation of seagrass in Madeira's waters

Rodrigo Riera, from the ECOAQUA Institute, signs this work together with experts from Madeiran institutions Rodrigo...
07/09/2022

ECOAQUA goes deep into the waters of Cape Verde with the international DISCOVER project, which aims to find "new species" of marine invertebrates

The research, coordinated by the French Institute for Development Research (IRD), could find similarities with the black coral...

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