Mesopelagic fish and the biological pump

Talk about some results of the Malaspina Project in the frame of the "Ciencia Compartida" (shared science), weekly talks about burning questions in science at the Marine Sciences School, Universidad de Las Palmas. Interesting talk for the people engaged in the Mafia project and all those researchers working on Active Flux in the ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JGz5nohqI

Meeting of the Mafia project in Barcelona

During 19th and 20th March 2014, the different people engaged in the Mafia project met in Barcelona. The objective of the meeting was to prepare all the necessary actions to carry out the first evaluation of the Active Flux in the ocean at a basin scale. All the sampling systems, including rosette, different nets, sediment traps, video cameras, acoustics,… were reviewed in order to know their present status. An additional effort was made to organize the complex sampling in the 24 hour oceanographic stations. Some problems are now on the way to solve but our time-schedule estimation seems enough to have everything in check next year. Below is the photograph of the attendees to the meeting. Alejandro Ariza was absent at the end of the meeting and, therefore, missing in the picture. Fernando Bordes, Alicia Ojeda, Arturo Castellón, and Antonio Bode did not attend the meeting because of agenda.

From left to right: Santiago Hernández-León, Ignacio González-Gordillo, Enrique Moreno Ostos, Ignacio Franco, Balbina Molí, Pilar Olivar, Ainhoa Bernal, Lidia Nieves, Laia Armengol, Juan Carlos Garijo, Marian Peña, Andrés Cózar, Mariluz Fernández de Puelles y Jorge Cabrera-Gámez.