Physical Oceanography and Applied Geophysics group (OFYGA-ULPGC)
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
Partner entity description and relevance
The ULPGC, created in the 1989-1990 academic year has university institutes, research centres and 161 research groups covering all fields of knowledge, made up of nearly 1000 researchers and around 1000 PhD students. It also has a Scientific and Technological Park to help make more dynamic the transfer of R&D+i results to society in the Canary Islands and among our neighbours, as well as helping to launch technology-based companies.
The universities of the Canary Islands (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and University of La Laguna) have joined forces to develop the Tri-Continental Atlantic Campus, an Atlantic Benchmark in Europe as an axis that receives and catalyzes talent in teaching research, innovation and transfer projects with Africa and Latin America in Marine and Maritime Science and Technology, Biomedicine and Astrophysics, under the common denominator of a development model of integral sustainability.
The Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering (SIANI) was the first research institute created in 2001 at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Its research activities are focused on the application of computational engineering to a large set of scientific and engineering problems within the context of several national and international collaborative projects.
It is currently divided into six divisions, namely: “Advanced Numerical Algebra”, “Quality, Efficiency and Sustainability”, “Evolutionary Computation and Applications”, “Discretization and Applications”, “Continuous and Structural Mechanics”, and “Robotics and Computational Oceanography”. Nowadays, SIANI institute offers one doctorate program and two 60-credit Master degrees, one on Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering; and a second one on Energy Efficiency in Engineering.
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Physical Oceanography and Applied Geophysics group (OFYGA-ULPGC)
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Expertise from previous and ongoing projects
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Project title
First transoceanic underwater robot flight
Project ID
Scarlet Knight RU27
Duration
NJersey - Vigo 2009
Abstract
In the Smithsonian Museum of Air & Space (Washington DC). http://www.i-cool.org/?cat=38
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Project title
Challenger Glider Global Mission
Acronym
Rutgers Univ. New Jersey
Abstract
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Project title
MARINEMET Marine meteorology for NW Africa.
Acronym
WMO, AEMET
Duration
2009- 2015
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Project title
Remote sensing technology network in the NW African Region.
Acronym
TELECAN
Project ID
MAC
Duration
2007-2013
Abstract
European Program for the Macaronesian Transnational Cooperation Azores-Madeira-Canary Islands
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Project title
SITMA Marine Technology Service
Project ID
UNLP13-3E-2664
Duration
2012-2013)
Abstract
Underwater Robotics and Oceanography. National Call for scientific and technical infrastructures.
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. http://sgi.vidi.ulpgc.es
Infrastructure and equipment
Regarding the marine/maritime context and, apart from its own oceanographic instrumentation, the ULPGC takes direct advantage of the infrastructure and equipment managed by the Marine Technology Service (SITMA) of the Science & Technology Park Foundation (FCPCT), with an special focus on marine robotics and sensors.
For this particular project, two new prototypes of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) will be developed throughout the project duration. On the other hand, the following existing infrastructure can be also provided by SITMA:
01: G500 AUV: Girona G500, equipped with additional thruster, Teledyne RDI Explorer (600 kHz 1000m) DVL and EvoLogics S2CE 18/34 USBL modem.
02: DINA glider: SLOCUM G2 glider with thruster, equipped with dockserver kit, strobe light, battery, Sea Bird pumped CTD, Teledyne RDI DVL/ADCP and Rockland Scientific MicroRider.
03: ECO glider: SLOCUM G2 glider, equipped with dockserver kit, strobe light, battery, Sea Bird pumped CTD, Aanderaa Optode 4831 oximeter, Wet labs triple frequency fluorometer and PAR radiometer.
04: 18 CTD sensors (14 up to 2,000m depth, 4 up to 350m depth).
05: ASL AZFP Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler up to 6,000m depth.
06: Batelle pCO2 sensor suitable for surface air and underwater monitoring.
07: Sensorlab SP200 LB pH sensor for shallow waters.
08: OCEOMIC CBT/60-250 sampling Carbotheca.
09: SATLANTIC FIRe Active lab fluorometer.
10: SATLANTIC Deep Suna UV nitrates sensor up to 2,000m depth.
11: Aquation triple output underwater fluorometer.
Key Personnel
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Dr. Antonio González Ramos
Operational Oceanography
Operational Oceanography. Remote sensing. AUVs (Gliders navigation and metadata). a.- Three “six-year” recognized periods of Science production (National Agency) b.- Total Citations: >700 cites, H index: 13. >70 Papers JCR. c.- Bs.C Ms.C, and Ph.D. in Marine Sciences. Senior Lecturer (University of Las Palmas de GC, Universitat de Barcelona and University of La Réunion, France- DOM). 30 National, European & International Projects. Direction of 3 PH.Ds Thesis. Reviewer & Referee of International Journals & National/International Agencies. d.- Associated Scientist (IA) of the French Institute of Research and Development (IRD) (www.IRD.fr). e.- AWARD OTRI 2011 to the best National top projects of Scientific Research, Innovation Min. Science and Technology (Spain). http://www.ulpgc.es/index.php?pagina=noticia&ver=260911innovacion f.- RUTGERS RUCOOL (Univ of New Jersey) Technical Achievement Award 2013. https://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/awards/rucool-technical-achievement-award
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Jorge Cabrera Gamez
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Jorge Cabrera Gámez is Senior Lecturer in the area of Computational Sciences and Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and head of the Robotics and Computational Oceanography at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Application on Engineering (SIANI) at the ULPGC. He received PhD in Computer Science in 1994. At the ULPGC he has lectured on Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Sensor Networks, Robotics, Computational Logics and Wireless Sensor Networks. His research interests have been focused on computer vision, field robotics and application of intelligent systems to different domains, participating in numerous research projects. He has published over one hundred papers on these topics in specialized journal and conferences (324 citations, H index 9). He has served as reviewer for main robotics (IROS, ICRA) and computer vision (ICVS) conferences and journals as the Marine Technology Society Journal, Autonomous robots and the Journal of Physical Agents. Recently, he has been responsible of the ULPGC teams participating on several robotics competitions like SAUC-E (Student Underwater Vehicle Challenge Europe) and the World Robotic Sailing Championship where they were awarded as “Best microsailboat” & “Best endurance microsailboat” in 2013 (Brest, France) and “Best sailboat” in 2016 (Viana do Castelo, Portugal).
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Angel Rodrìguez Santana
Director of the Physical Oceanography
o.- Director of the Physical Oceanography and Applied Geophysic group (OFIGA-ULPGC) a.- Three “six-year” recognized periods of Science production (National Agency) b.- Total Citations: >600 cites, H index: 12. >40 Papers JCR. Keywords: Physical Oceanography, Mixing and turbulence processes in the Ocean. c.- Bs.C Ms.C, and Ph.D. in Physic Sciences. Senior Lecturer (University of Las Palmas de GC. 20 National, European & International Projects. Direction of 3 PH.Ds Thesis. Reviewer & Referee of International Journals & National/International Agencies. d.- His research interests have been focused on physical oceanography (mixing and turbulence processes in the ocean at different scales, participating in numerous research projects and research cruises. e.- He has served as Reviewer/Referee of International Journals and National/International Agencies.
Relevant publications
1.- P.Hernández, S.Calvari, A.Ramos, N.M. Pérez, A.Márquez, R.Quevedo, J.Barrancos, E.Padrón, G.Padilla, D.López, Á.Rodríguez, G.Melián, S.Dionis, F.Rodríguez, D.Calvo, L. Spampinato.(2014). Magma emission rates from shallow submarine eruptions using airborne thermal imaging. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 154: 219-225.
2.- Coca J., T.Ohde, A. Redondo, L. García-Weil, M. Santana-Casiano, M. González-Dávila, J. Arístegui, E. Fraile-Nuez, A.Ramos (2014). Remote sensing of the El Hierro submarine volcanic eruption plume. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 35 (17): 6573–6598.
3.- García-Garrido V., Ramos A., Mancho A., Coca J., Wiggins S. (2016). A dynamical systems perspective for a real-time response to a marine oil spill. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Vol 112: 201-210.
4.- Karina von Schuckmann, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Enrique Alvarez-Fanjul, Lars Axell, Magdalena Balmaseda, Lars-Anders Breivik, Robert J. W. Brewin, Clement Bricaud, Marie Drevillon, Yann Drillet, Clotilde Dubois, Owen Embury, Hélène Etienne, Marcos García Sotillo, Gilles Garric, Florent Gasparin, Elodie Gutknecht, Stéphanie Guinehut, Fabrice Hernandez, Melanie Juza, Bengt Karlson, Gerasimos Korres, Jean-François Legeais, Bruno Levier, Vidar S. Lien, Rosemary Morrow, Giulio Notarstefano, Laurent Parent, Álvaro Pascual, Begoña Pérez-Gómez, Coralie Perruche, Nadia Pinardi, Andrea Pisano, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Isabelle M. Pujol, Roshin P. Raj, Urmas Raudsepp, Hervé Roquet, Annette Samuelsen, Shubha Sathyendranath, Jun She, Simona Simoncelli, Cosimo Solidoro, Jonathan Tinker, Joaquín Tintoré, Lena Viktorsson, Michael Ablain, Elin Almroth Rosell, Antonio Bonaduce, Emanuela Clementi, Gianpiero Cossarini, Quentin Dagneaux, Charles Desportes, Stephen Dye, Claudia Fratianni, Simon Good, Eric Greiner, Jerome Gourrion, Mathieu Hamon, Jason Holt, Pat Hyder, John Kennedy, Fernando Manzano-Muñoz, Angélique Melet, Benoit Meyssignac, Sandrine Mulet, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli, Enda O’Dea, Einar Olason, Aurélien Paulmier, Irene Pérez-González, Rebecca Reid, Marie-Fanny Racault, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Antonio Ramos, Peter Sykes, Tanguy Szekely & Nathalie Verbrugg (2016). The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean State Report. International Journal Operational Oceanography. doi: 10.1080/1755876X.2016.1273446
5.- M. Gómez Letona, A.G. Ramos, J. Coca, J. Arístegui (2017). Trends in Primary Production in the Canary Current Upwelling System. A Regional Perspective Comparing Remote Sensing Models. Frontiers in Marine Sciences. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00370
6.- A. G. Ramos, V. J. García-Garrido, A. M. Mancho, S. Wiggins, J. Coca, S. Glenn, O. Schofield, J. Kohut, D. Aragon, J. Kerfoot, T. Haskins, T. Miles, C. Haldeman, N. Strandskov, B. Allsup, C. Jones, and J. Shapiro (IN PRESS). Lagrangian coherent structure assisted path planning for transoceanic autonomous underwater vehicle missions. Scientific Reports (2018).
7.- M. Gómez Letona, J. Arístegui, A.G. Ramos, M.F. Montero, J. Coca (IN PRESS). Lack of impact of the El Hierro (Canary Islands) submarine volcanic eruption on the local phytoplankton community. Scientific Reports (2018).
8.- Cabrera-Gámez, J, Isern-González, J, Hernández-Sosa, D, Domínguez-Brito, AC, and Fernández-Perdomo, E. (2013), Optimization-Based Weather Routing for Sailboats, C. Sauzé, J. Finnis (Eds), Robotic Sailing 2012, Proceedings of the 5th International Robotic Sailing Conference (IRSC’12), Cardiff (Gales, RU), Springer.
9.- Cabrera-Gámez J., Ramos de Miguel A., Domínguez Brito A.C, Hernández- Sosa J.D., Isern-González J. and Fernández-Perdomo E. (2014), An Embedded Low-Power Control System for Autonomous Sailboats, F. Le Bars, L. Jaulin (Eds), Robotic Sailing 2013, Proceedings of the 6th International Robotic Sailing Conference (IRSC’13), Brest (Francia), Springer.
10.- Cabrera-Gámez J., Ramos de Miguel, A., Domínguez-Brito, A.C., ,Hernández-Sosa, J.D., Isern-González, J., Adler, L. (2015), A Real-Time Sailboat Controller based on ChibiOS, F. Morgan, D.Tynan (Eds), Robotic Sailing 2014, Proceedings of the 7th International Robotic Sailing Conference (IRSC’14), Galway (Irlanda), Springer.
11.- Domínguez Brito, A.C., Valle Fernández, B., Cabrera Gámez, J., Ramos de Miguel, A. and García, J.C. (2016), A-TIRMA G2: An Oceanic Autonomous Sailboat, A. Friebe, F. Haug (Eds), Robotic Sailing 2015, Proceedings of the 8th International Robotic Sailing Conference (IRSC’15), Alland Islands (Finlandia), Springer.
12.- Cabrera-Gámez, J., Domı́nguez-Brito, A.C., Hernández-Sosa, J.D , Valle-Fernández, B., Ramos de Miguel, A., and Garcı́a, J. C. (2017), A Virtual Wind Sensor based on a Particle Filter, J.C. Alves, N.A. Cruz (Eds), Robotic Sailing 2016, Proc. of the 9th International Robotic Sailing Conference (IRSC’16), Viana do Castelo (Portugal), Springer.
