List of services

R+D offer

• IMEDMAR Installations are offered as an R+D platform for small companies.
• Laboratories and installations may be hired by educational institutions for ad-hoc laboratory teaching.

Teaching and divulgation

• Development of environmental education workshops and conferences for different levels.
• Development of combined activities with aquatic sport companies and other companies such as hotels. We offer consultancy for the preparation of training activities in biology and marine ecology.
• Sea school and summer School.
• Development and installation of underwater trails: subaquatic guides equipped with waterproof panels showing the local species and marine communities. Complementary promotional activities.

Marine Biology

• Environmental impact assessment studies.
• Studies of Water Framework Directive and impact index.
• Development of biotic index.
• Ecological monitoring of artificial reefs.
• Marine habitat restoration.
• Research on endangered species and marine communities (e.g. Pinna nobilis and Posidonia oceanica), benthic invertebrates (polychaetes, amphipods, molluscs, echinoderms, etc).
• Taxonomic identification of marine organisms for biodiversity lists and databases.
• Ecological studies and control of fish farms.
• Design and development of aquaculture projects.
• Fisheries studies.
• Modelling, analysis and production of photonic nanostructures based on diatom algae.

Physical oceanography

• Coastal hydrodynamics.
• Coastal inundation.
• Comprehensive coastal studies from a geomorphologic perspective.
• Coastal monitoring.
• Paleoenvironmental reconstructions and its relationship with sea level variation.
• Paleogeographic studies.
• Coastal management and land uses.
• Landscape studies.
• Technical studies for the development of high resolution topographic and bathymetric projects (DGPS, echo-sounders) in littoral systems.
• Morphodynamic evolution of beaches.
• Topographical monitoring of beaches, study of volume variation and dune, beach and other coastal system geomorphology.
• Morphodynamics and stratigraphy of the continental shelf.
• Marine climate studies, wind and wave regimes.
• Characterisation of water masses and currents.
• Seabed “facies” cartography.
• Dredge sediment sampling (Van Veen, Haps, Holme Macintyre, etc). Textural and sediment composition analysis.

Water and sediment analysis

• Oceanographic characterisation of the coastal environment (physicochemical parameters) both in the water column and the sediment.
• Water quality analysis (physicochemistry and microbiology).
• Pollutant analysis (heavy metals).