details
- Name
- ULPGC, ECOAQUA Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC/ IU-ECOAQUA)
- Native name
- Instituto Universitario ECOAQUA, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Address
- Ctra.Taliarte s/n, PARQUE CIENTIFICO TECNOLOGICO MARINO TALIARTE, TELDE, LAS PALMAS
- Zipcode
- 35214
- City
- Telde
- Country
- Spain
- Phone
- +34 928 454912
- alejandro.garcia@ulpgc.es, andrej.abramic@ulpgc.es
- Centre Website
- http://ecoaqua.ulpgc.es
organisation profile
The ULPGC hosts the Research Institute in Sustainable Aquaculture and Marine
Ecosystems (IU-ECOAQUA), with more than 90 scientists as research staff (including
professors, post-docs and technicians). In the Marine Scientific and Technological Park,
IU-ECOAQUA runs the largest and most modern aquaculture infrastructure in Spain (>5.000m2), which is included in two European Networks of Research Infrastructures of Excellence. IU-ECOAQUA has an award-granted Doctorate Program since 1991, currently entitled as Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems and runs two Master Courses, one in Aquaculture and another one in Sustainable Fisheries; besides, participates in three other Master Courses of the ULPGC: Master in Oceanography, Master in Coastal Management and Master in Development of Sustainable Tourism Destinations. The Research Group on Tourism, Planning and Environmental Legislation is devoted to analysis of legislations and Conventions related to diverse activities in the coastal and marine realm. The Research Group in Ecophysiology of Marine Organisms is working mainly on planktonic ecosystems and interrelations with plastic pollution in high seas and coastal ecosystems. The Research Group in Aquaculturehas developed a large number of high-quality research on fish nutrition, selective breeding, welfare, broodstock and larval rearing, and interactions with the surrounding environment. The Research Group in Biodiversity and Conservation has marine biodiversity as mainstream research, with taxonomy, biogeography, macroecology, sustainable fisheries, Marine Protected Areas and applied Geographic Information Systems as specific topics.
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 5269
- Collating centre
- IEO-CSIC, Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO-CSIC)
- Latest update
- 24 July 2020 12:10:58 PM