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Project title: '' Implementation of networks of oceanographic observations (physical, geochemical, ecological) for the generation of scenarios for possible contingencies related to the exploration and production of hydrocarbons in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico ''
Project identification code / reference: Project 201441
Financing entity: Sector Fund CONACYT - Ministry of Energy - Hydrocarbons
Participating entities: CICESE and others
Duration of the project in months: 5 years, Start date: 01/28/2015 End date: 03/04/2020
Amount of the total project grant (in thousands of euros): 80,000
Responsible researcher: Dr. Juan Carlos Herguera Pérez
List of participating researchers: 80 researchers and Sheila Natalí Estrada Allis
Quality in which you participated: Postdoctoral

Project title: STUDY OF THE OCEANIC VERTICAL PUMP IN REMOLINOS DE MESOSCALA
Project identification code / reference: CTM2012-33355
Financing entity: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Participating entities: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Institute of Marine Sciences of Barcelona (CSIC)
Duration of the project in months: 36, Start date: 01/01/2013 End date: 1/1/2016
Amount of the total project grant : 190000 euros
Responsible researcher: Pablo Sangrà Inciarte
List of participating researchers: Ángeles Marrero Díaz, Ángel Rodríguez Santana (collaborator), Sheila Estrada Allis, Borja Aguiar González and others

Project title: High performance marine instrumentation laboratory. Oceanography Unit
Project identification code / reference: UNLP13-3E-2664
Financing entity: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Participating entities: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Duration of the project in months: 24, Start date: 01/01/2013 End date: 12/31/2015
Amount of the total project grant : 1357511.77 euros
Responsible researcher: Javier Arístegui Ruiz
List of participating researchers: 14 researchers including Ángeles Marrero Díaz and Ángel Rodríguez Santana

Project title: Microstructure profiler and rotary table equipment: Progress in the development of Physical Oceanography.
Project identification code / reference: UNLP10-3E-622
Financing entities: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Participating entities: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Project duration (in months): 36 Start date: 1/1/2010 End date: 06/30/2013
Amount of the total project grant : 85678.26 euros
Responsible researcher: Ángel Rodríguez Santana
Number of participating researchers: 7
Researchers: Pablo Sangrà Inciarte, Mikhail Emelianov, Ángeles Marrero Díaz, Jesús Cisneros Aguirre, José Luis Pelegri Llopart, Miguel Borja Aguiar González, Mónica Hernández Arencibia,

Project title: Water transport and its seasonal variability in the oceanographic region of the Canary Islands
Project identification code / reference: ProID20100092
Financing entity: Canary Islands Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society, Government of the Canary Islands
Participating entities: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ICM of Barcelona (CSIC)
Duration of the project in months: 36, Start date: 1/1/2011 End date: 1/1/2014
Amount of the total project grant : 30000 euros
Responsible researcher: Ángeles Marrero Díaz
List of participating researchers: Ángel Rodríguez Santana, Ángeles Marrero Díaz, Miguel Borja Aguiar González, Mónica Hernández Arencibia, Pablo Sangrà Inciarte

Project title: PROMECA-2010 Oceanographic Campaign
Project identification code / reference: CTM2009-06993-E / MAR
Financing entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Participating entities: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ICM of Barcelona (CSIC)
Duration of the project in months: 13, Start date: 12/2009 End date: 12/2010
Amount of the total project grant : 80000 euros
Responsible researcher: Ángel Rodríguez Santana
List of participating researchers: Ángeles Marrero Díaz, J.L. Pelegrí Llopart, Mikhail Emelianov Kolomitski.

Project title: Mixing Processes in the Canary Basin: Canary Islands Current and Northwest African Outcrop System (PROMECA)
Project identification code / reference: CTM2008-04057 / MAR
Financing entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Participating entities: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of Concepción (Chile), ICM of Barcelona (CSIC)
Project duration in months: 48 months, Start date: 1/2009 End date: 12/2012
Amount of the total project grant : € 24,200
Responsible researcher: Ángel Rodríguez Santana
List of participating researchers: Ángeles Marrero Díaz, M.B. Aguiar González, F. Machín Jiménez, Y. Fajardo Rodríguez, J. Cisneros Aguirre, O. Pizarro, S. Hormazabal, D. Barahona

Project title: OCEAN OBSERVATÓRIO DEL MARGEN IBÉRICO
Funding entity: FEDE FUNDS. Entigad manager: STC of POCTEP (http://www.poctep.eu/)
Participating entities: 13
Principal Beneficiary (BP): Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MeteoGalicia)
B-1 INTECMAR
B-2 Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO)
B-3 Mariñas Research Institute (CSIC-IIM)
B-4 CETMAR
B-5 Univ. Vigo
B-6 CIIMAR
B-7 INESCP
B-8 INEGI
B-9 Fac. Engenharia, Univ. Porto
B-10 Hydrographic Institute (IH)
B-11 Univ. Aveiro
B-12 Fac. Sciences, Univ. Porto
Duration, from: 01/01/2009 to: 12/31/2011
Amount of the subsidy (Euros): € 2,672,394.50 (75% of the total eligible project)
Responsible researcher: VICENTE PÉREZ MUÑUZURI
List of participating researchers: Sheila Estrada Allis, 13 (one principal investigator for each participating entity)

Project title: Ocean Climate Memory: intermediate water flow in the Southern Atlantic and its transformation into surface waters in the Equatorial Atlantic (MOC2-Equatorial)
Project identification code / reference: CTM2008-06438-C02-01
Financing entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Participating entities: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of Concepción (Chile), ICM of Barcelona (CSIC)
Project duration in months: 36, Start date: 1/2009 End date: 12/2011
Amount of the total project grant : 502150 euros
Responsible researcher: Jose Luis Pelegrí Llopart
List of participating researchers: Francisco José Machín Jiménez, Antonio García-Olivares Rodríguez, Jaime Piera Fernández, Jordi Salat Umbert, Álvaro Viudez Lomba, Maricel Auladell Mestre, Mariona Claret Cortés, Mikhail Emelianov Kolomitski, Jerome Gourrion, Baptiste Mourre, Roger Olivella Pujol, Ismael Fernández Aymerich, Verónica Nives Calatrava, María Pastor Mollà, Roqu Rodríguez Rodríguez Salvador Castiella, Antonio María Turiel Martínez, Jaime Palter, Rubén Quesada López, Ángel Rodríguez Santana (collaborator)

Project title: Physical-biological coupling at the mesoscale range around South Shetland Islands (Antarctica) (COUPLING)
Project identification code / reference: CTM2008-06343-CO2-0
Financing entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Participating entities: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of Concepción (Chile), ICM of Barcelona (CSIC)
Project duration in months: 36, Start date: 1/2009 End date: 12/2011
Amount of the total project grant (in euros): 119900
Responsible researcher: Pablo Sangrà Inciarte
List of participating researchers: Ángeles Marrero Díaz, M. Hernández-Arencibia, S. Hormazabal and more researchers.

Project title: FisiOcean: a physiological approach to the study of natural and anthropogenic Climate Change in the Terrestrial System.
Financing entity: Higher Council for Scientific Research
Participating entities: Institut de Ciències del Mar, Center for Ecological Research and Forest Aplocacions, Institut d'Investigacions Quíiques i Ambientals de Barcelona.
Duration, from: 2008 to: 2011
Amount of the total project grant (in thousands of euros):
Responsible researcher: Dr. Josep Lluis Pelegrí Llopart
Number of participating researchers: Francisco José Machín Jiménez and 10 other researchers
Project website: http://www.cmima.csic.es/fisiocean/