The United States Navy and WHOI collaborate with the Balearic Islands to research the marine environ

The Balearic Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera, has expressed the Government's support for this international collaboration in the marine field.

The Minister of Education and Universities, Antoni Vera, along with the General Director of Universities, Research and Artistic Higher Education, Sebastià Massanet, met yesterday, January 27, with researchers from the Naval Research Office of the United States Navy, Emily Shroyer and Elena McCarthy, and from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Amala Mahadevan. The meeting was also attended by the directors of the research centers SOCIB, Joaquín Tintoré; IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), Gotzon Basterretxea; the rector of the University of the Balearic Islands, Jaume Carot, and the Vice-Rector of Scientific Policy and Research, Víctor Homar.

The purpose of the visit was to explore new lines of research collaboration in the marine field between the United States Navy's Naval Research Office, SOCIB, and IMEDEA. The American scientists expressed their satisfaction with the results obtained in the project "Coherent Lagrangian pathways from the ocean surface into the interior (CALYPSO)," a research initiative that SOCIB and IMEDEA have collaborated on over the past years and which has involved the influx of funding from the United States to the Balearic Islands.

Antoni Vera expressed the Government's support for this initiative, which is part of the CAIB's support for research, including marine research. The Balearic Islands are an international benchmark in marine science research with research centers such as IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), UIB, IEO (CSIC), and SOCIB. Currently, the Balearic Government, through the NextGen funds, is developing, with the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Complementary Plan in Marine Sciences "Think in Blue." This Plan includes the EBAMAR project, a strategic project for the CAIB, which addresses new challenges in marine monitoring and observation, and is part of a joint strategy with other regions to determine the effects of climate change in the Mediterranean Sea. This project is funded with €1,640,411, of which €574,144 are CAIB's own funds.