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17/03/2024 22/03/2024

Dates: Sunday, March 17th 2024 - Friday, March 22nd 2024

Place of celebration: Grand Chancellor Hotel, Hobart-nipaluna, Tasmania

Organizers: Kerrie Swadling, Anthony Richardson, Sonia Batten, Sanae Chiba, Sophie Pitois
Jörn Schmidt, Akash Sastri and Wenneke ten Hout

Research group: EOMAR

Researcher: Rodrigo Almeda García

Session: "Interactions between zooplankton and pollution in a changing ocean" organized by Penelope Lindeque (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK), Rodrigo Almeda Garcia (ULPGC, Spain), Matthew Cole (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK), Amanda Dawson (CSIRO, Australia), Claudia Halsband (Akvaplan-Niva, Norway) y Sinja Rist (Technical University of Denmark)

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30/11/2023

Date: November 30th

Place of celebration: University Institute for Research in Sustainable Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems (ECOAQUA)

Organizer: OESA Foundation

Research group: GIA

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30/10/2023  03/11/2023

Time: Monday, Octuber 30th: 9:00 to 17:00 - Friday, November 3rd: 9:00 to 17:00

Place of celebration: Instituto EcoAqua, Parque Cientifico Tecnologico Marino de Taliarte, carretera de Taliarte s/n, 35214, Las Palmas.

Organizer: Highland Statistics

Research group: BIOCON

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26/10/2023

Time: Thursday, October 26th: 9:30 to 11:30

Place of celebration: Aula Magna "Blas Cabrera Felipe", Faculty of Sciences, University of La Laguna, Anchieta Campus, San Cristóbal de La Laguna

Organizer: IMPLAMAC

Research group: EOMAR

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05/10/2023  06/10/2023

Time: Thursday, October 5th:9:00 to 18:00 - Friday, October 6th: 9:00 to 11:00

Place of celebration: Tafira Campus, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria + Online

Organizer: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)

Research group: GIA

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04/10/2023

Time: Wednesday, October 4th: 10:00 to 11:00

Place of celebration: Assembly Hall of the Oceanographic Center of the Canary Islands
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, C. Farola del Mar, nº 22, Dársena Pesquera de San Andrés, 38180 Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 

Organizer: Fundación Biodiversidad and the Directorate General for the Coast and the Sea of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge

Research group: BIOCON

Researcher: Andrej Abramic

Presentation: Available tools for assessing the feasibility of offshore wind farm projects

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29/09/2023

Time: Friday, September 29th:19:00 to 21:00

Place of celebration: Poema del Mar, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Organizer: Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)

Participating research groups:  BIOCON and EOMAR

Researchers: Rodrigo Riera Elena (BIOCON) and Rodrigo Almeda García (EOMAR)

Presentations: "Sin océano, no hay magia" and "Plancton y microplásticos"

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21/09/2023

Time: Thursay, September 21st at 11:00 

Place of celebration: Faculty of Marine Sciences, Las Palmas

Organizer: Marine Sciences Educational Innovation Group (GIEMAR) of the ULPGC

Research group: BIOCON

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21/07/2023

Time: Friday, July 21st at 9:00

Place of celebration: University of las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), nexus building, (Tafira campus)

Organizer: ULPGC

Research group: GIA

Guest researcher: Juan Manuel Afonso López, director of the GIA group

During the event, eight potential academic spin-off projects will present their business ideas to a committee of experts composed of representatives from the business and academic world. Among them will be a group of ECOAQUA researchers, led by Juan Manuel Afonso, director of the Aquaculture Research Group.

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17/07/2023 21/07/2023

Dates: Monday, July 17th - Friday, July 21st 

Place of celebration: La Aldea de San Nicolás 

Organizer: ECOAQUA

Research group: BIOCON

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10/07/2023  14/07/2023

Time: Monday, July 10th :9:00 to 18:30 - Friday, July 14th :9:00 to 18:30

Place of celebration: Campus universitario de San Miguel del Raspeig, Universidad de Alicante

Organizer: Sociedad Española de Ficologia (SEF)

Research group: EOMAR

This course will be taught by Professor Emilio Soler Onís, PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and acredited by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) 

If you are interested in registering, contact with Carolina Pena Martín through the following e-mail address: carolina.pena@ua.es

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03/07/2023

Date: Monday, July 3rd

Access: Online

Organizer: Climática

Research group: BIOCON

Guest researcher: Andrej Abramic

Presentation: Offshore wind energy: a new maritime sector and its fit into the proposals for marine spatial planning in the Canary Islands

All of the works mentioned in the presentation have been developed within the framework of INTERREG MAC with the PLASMAR AND PLASMAR+ projects

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20/06/2023

Time: June 20th at 15:30 

Place of celebration: Alfredo Kraus auditorium, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Organizer: INTERREG

Research group: BIOCON

Guest researcher: Inmaculada Herrera Rivero

Presentation: Presentation of the three early stage technologies by researchers from the Canary Islands, and jury of the best route to market 

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16/06/2023 17/06/2023 

Time: Friday, June 16th: 10:30 to 11:00 - Saturday, June 17th: 11:15 to 11:45

Place of celebration: Muelle de Santa Catalina, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Organizer: Concejalía de Ciudad de Mar of Gran Canaria and Infecar, Fair of Gran Canaria.

Research group: BIOCON and EOMAR

Guest researchers: Inmaculada Herrera Rivero (BIOCON), José Juan Castro Hernández (BIOCON) and Emilio Soler Onís (EOMAR)

Presentations: "Quién o qué es Sheldon J. Plankton" and "El océano microscópico: explorando las microalgas de Canarias"

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03/06/2023 11/06/2023

Time: Saturday, June 3rd 7:00 - Sunday, June 11th 17:00 (canary time)

Access: Online

Organiser: ISLANDAP ADVANCED

Research group: GIA

Exhibition of products and services associated with sustainable food production and the promotion of the sustainable use of resources

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08/06/2023

Time: Thursday, June 8th at 19:30

Access: Online

Organizer: Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL)

Research group: GIA

Guest researcher: Juan Manuel Afonso

Presentation: Shrimp breeding

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07/06/2023 

Time: June 7th at 18:30 

Place of celebration: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca

Organizer: Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography

Research group: EOMAR

Guest researcher: May Gómez Cabrera

Presentation: Microplastic ingestion in Macaronesian fishes

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06/06/2023 07/06/2023

Time: Tuesday, June 6th :12:30 to 13:30 and 16:00 to 17:00 - Wednesday, June 7th:10:00 to 11:00 

Place of celebration: CIHEAM Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Organizer: NewTechAqua and CIHEAM

Research group: GIA

Guest researcher: Marta Carvalho

Presentations: Alternative ingredients for aquaculture nutrition and advances in aquaimpact and performfish nutrition issues.

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17/05/2023

Time: Wednesday, May 17th: 9:00 to 12:30

Place of celebration: TOPOS Parlement, Rue d'Arlon 25, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels Belgium

Organiser: Zero Waste Europe and Break Free From Plastic, on behalf of the CAPonLITTER project, financed by Interreg Europe

Research group: BIOCON

Guest researcher: Yaiza Fernández - Palacios Vallejo

Presentation: CAPonLITTER in Fuerteventura - Ingredients for success

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24/04/2023

Time: From 9:00 to 11:30 hours

Access: On-line

Inauguration: In charge D. Ricardo Haroun Tabraue. Director of University Institute ECOAQUA from the ULPGC.

Organizer: Asociación de Voluntarios de Ayuda a la Naturaleza de Fuerteventura (AVANFUER) and Fuerteventura Marine Litter Observatory (OBAM), with the support of University Institute ECOAQUA.

Research group: BIOCON

Target: Public and private entities that are organizers or promoters of events in Fuerteventura and the rest of the Canary Islands, as well as the key agents of the CAPonLITTER Project in Fuerteventura.

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30/03/2023 31/03/2023

Time: Thursday, March 30th: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Friday, March 31st: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Place of celebration: Aula de Piedra located at Juan de Quesada Street, 30.

Organiser: ULPGC

Research Group: TOTMA

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29/03/2023 31/03/2023

Time: Thursday march 30th: from 9:30 to 18:00 - Friday march 31st: from 10:00 to 13:30

Place of celebration: Departament of Life and Enviormental Sciences (DiSVA). Conference Room Azzurra Mario Giordano. City of Ancona. Italy.

Organiser: JPI OCEANS RESPONSE

Research Group: EOMAR

Rodrigo Almeda, "Ramón y Cajal" researcher, is part of the organizing committee of the annual meeting of the JPI Oceans RESPONSE project

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29/03/2023

Presentation: Renewable Energies and Human Rights: A New Future'

Time: 19:00 - 19:30

Researcher: Dr. Elena Proietti

Place: Federico García Lorca Theater. Ingenio.

Organized by: Mancomunidad del Sureste

Research Group: TOTMA

Participation: Free

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28/03/2023 

Time: 12:00h

Researcher: Javier Roo

Presentation: Aquawind Project

Place of celebration: Sala Abanca, Feria Internacional de Galicia Abanca, Galicia

Organiser: Aquafuture Spain

Research group: GIA

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23/03/2023 

Time: 18:15h 

Place: Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània (CCCC). Conference room Refectorio. Valencia.

Organized by: Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana and Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana

Produced by: Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana

Research group: BIOCON (with the participation of José Juan Castro)

Project: Angel Shark Project
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21/03/2023

Time: Tuesday, March 21th: 16.00-17:30 (UTC-1)

Place of celebration: Institute for Research in Marine Sciences (OKEANOS) of the University of the Azores (UAc)

Organiser: AQUAINVERT project

Research Group: GIA

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08/03/2023

Researcher: Lidia Esther Robaina 

Place of celebration: CEIP La Garita, Las Palmas

Organiser: CEIP La Garita, Las Palmas

Research group: GIA

The researcher Lidia Robaina participated on the 08/03/2023 in an interesting interview at the CEIP La Garita with Julia Martel for 8M

08/03/2023

Time: Wednesday, March 8th: from 15:30 to 16:25

Place of celebration: Auditorio, Sala Andromeda, Holiday resort Lago Martiánez, Puerto la Cruz, Tenerife

Organiser: Consejería de Transición Ecológica, Lucha contra el Cambio Climático y Planificación Territorial of the Gobierno de Canarias next to Asociación Española de Basuras (AEBAM) 

Research group: BIOCON

Guest researcher: Candy Cecilia Ruano

Presentation: Solutions for the prevention of marine litter - Presentation of the CAPonLITTER project

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10/02/2023

Time:  13:00-15:00 PM UTC

Researcher: Rodrigo Almeda

Place of celebration: On-line

Organiser: AIR Centre | Atlantic International Research Centre

Research Group: EOMAR

Researcher Rodrigo Almeda presents research on the co-detection of microplastics and the effects of plastic additives on marine plankton, including zooplankton, and the possible effects on higher levels of the food chain.

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16/02/2023

Time: From 15:30 p.m. to 17:45 p.m.

Place of celebration: In person, at the BEA meeting room and On-line.

Organiser: INTEGRATE

Research Group: GIA

The aim of the workshop is to explain the methodology to track energy and carbon nutrient flow in IMTA, current models and application for end users.

The GIA group is involved as a project partner to develop IMTA pilot experiments integrating sea cucumbers into production and study their benefits.

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13/02/2023

Time: From 9:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m.

Place of celebration: Sala de Piedra of the Rectorate of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Canary Island. Spain.

Organiser: ULPGC

Research Group: Biodiversity and Conservation group (BIOCON)

From February 13th to 17th, 2023, the course "Environmental Management on Islands: Challenges and Sustainability" will be organized at the Sala de Piedra of the Rectorate of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 

This Winter School/Advanced Course is aimed at combining all these different perspective, focusing on Gran Canaria.

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09/02/2023

Time: 10:00 a.m. in Madeira, Funchal. 

Place of celebration: University of Madeira. 

Organiser: IMPLAMAC

Research Group: Ecophysiology of Marine Organisms group (EOMAR)

The IMPLAMAC project partners invite you to the Preliminary Results Presentation Meeting of the project "Evaluation of the impact of microplastics and emerging contaminants on the coasts of Macaronesia".

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02/02/2023 03/02/2023

Time: Thursday, February 2nd; 8:30 to 14:30 and 16:00 to 19:00 - Friday, February 3rd; 9:00 to 16:30

Place of celebration and organised by: Institución Ferial de Canarias (INFECAR).   

Organiser: INFECAR 

Research Group: Biodiversity and Conservation group (BIOCON) and Ecophysiology of Marine Organisms group (EOMAR)

ECOAQUA researchers: director of ECOAQUA, Ricardo Haroun, and the director of the EOMAR group, May Gómez.

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02/02/2023

Time: 12:30

Place of celebration: Meeting room of the IU-ECOAQUA

Organiser: OTRI

Research Group: GIA - BIOCON - EOMAR - TOTMA

The OTRI team of the ULPGC will be at ECOAQUA to know us and to let you know about our services.

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27/01/2023

Time: 14:00 (GMT+1) Canary Island.  

Place of celebration: On-line

Organiser: FIRMA

Research Group: GIA

On the occasion of the Awards Ceremony for the best scientific papers at the XI FIRMA 2022, the conference “Rendimiento industrial del camarón Penaeus vannamei por selección genética” by Dr. Juan Manuel Afonso will be held. 

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11/01/2023

Time: 14:15-17:15h CET

Place of celebration: On-line

Organiser: GIA - ULPGC

Research Group: GIA

To join, you just have to send an email to david.dominguez@ulpgc.es indicating that you wish to participate, together with your details (full name, affiliation and position).

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