Mr. Biel Barceló, VP of the Balearic Islands Government at SOCIB

Mr. Biel Barceló, Vice president of the Balearic Islands Government and Counsellor of Innovation, Research and Tourism, accompanied by the General Director of Innovation and Research, Pep Lluís Pons and the General Director of Tourism, Pilar Carbonell, visited SOCIB headquarters on the 18th of April, 2016. SOCIB team presented the ongoing activities with particular emphasis on the role of science, technology development, and innovation to advance towards knowledge based management of our oceans and coasts. Some examples of the innovative tools developed at SOCIB and showed during this visit are:
 

  • Forecasting models and tools for search and rescue operations, oil spill tracking in the ocean and implementation of decision support tools to establish the coastal response
  • New technologies such as underwater gliders for routine monitoring of our oceans and coastal areas
  • Indicators and methodologies to advance towards real science based sustainability by establishing equilibrium points between environmental, economical and societal goals
  • Smartphones apps for real time visualization of oceans and coasts data
  • Beach monitoring systems related to beach safety, etc.
  • Data management at SOCIB, real time data available, catalogue, visualization, download, etc.