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BIO Hesperides MALASPINA Leg7
Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | BIO Hesperides (29HE) |
Cruise identifier | MALASPINA Leg7 |
Cruise period | 2011-06-19 — 2011-07-14 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Cartagena, Colombia |
Port of return | Cartagena, Spain |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | This project aims at conducting a circumnavigation scientific cruise, MALASPINA 2010, with the aims of providing a high-resolution coherent inventory on the impact of global change on the ocean ecosystem at the global scale. The project also seaks to train a new generation of young scientists with a global outlook to ocean ecosystems; celebrate, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809, 2009 named International Year of Biodiversity) and the death of Alessandro Malaspina (1810), who lead the first Spanish scientific circunnavigation and raise awareness on his expedition and the role of Spain in the exploration of the planet's natural resources. |
Chief scientist | Carlos Duarte Quesada (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies Natural Resources Department) |
Project | Malaspina Circumnavigation Expedition |
NPRC | (0.50 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Atlantic Ocean |