The Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera, has expressed the Government’s support for this international collaboration in the marine field.
These institutions have collaborated in recent years with SOCIB and IMEDEA in the Calypso project.
The Regional Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera, together with the Director General of Universities, Research and Higher Artistic Education, Sebastià Massanet, today received researchers from the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research, Emily Shroyer and Elena McCarthy, and from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Amala Mahadevan. The meeting was also attended by the directors of the SOCIB research centres, Joaquín Tintoré; IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), Gotzon Basterretxea; the rector of the University of the Balearic Islands, Jaume Carot, and the vice-rector of Science Policy and Research, Víctor Homar.
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The visit aimed to explore new lines of research collaboration in the marine field between the US Navy Office of Naval Research, SOCIB and IMEDEA. The American scientists expressed their satisfaction with the results obtained in the ‘Coherent Lagrangian Pathways from the Ocean Surface to the Interior (CALYPSO)’ project, a research initiative in which SOCIB and IMEDEA have collaborated over the last few years and which has involved the arrival of funding from the United States to the Balearic Islands.
Antoni Vera expressed the Government’s support for this initiative, which is part of the CAIB’s support for research, including marine research. The Balearic Islands are an international benchmark in marine science research with the IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), UIB, IEO (CSIC) and SOCIB research centres. Currently, the Government of the Balearic Islands, through NextGen funds, is developing, with the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Complementary Plan in Marine Sciences ‘Think in Blue’. The Plan includes the EBAMAR project, a strategic project for the CAIB, which addresses new challenges in marine monitoring and observation, and which forms part of a joint strategy with other Autonomous Communities to determine the effects of climate change in the Mediterranean Sea. This project has a funding of 1,640,411 €, of which 574,144 € are CAIB own funds.