SOCIB visitors: Mr. Dae-Sung Oh, South Korean ambassador in Spain, visited SOCIB headquarters

Mr. Dae-Sung Oh, South Korean ambassador in Spain, accompanied by Jin-Sang Jang, director of the Korean Cultural Center in Madrid, Mr. Miquel Bernat, Director of Parc Bit, and Mr. Antonio Viader, Responsible of the Innovation Unit at Parc Bit, together with Mr. Antonio Jorge Mateos Sastre, D. G. of Innovation and Technological Development from the Balearic Islands Government, visited SOCIB headquarters on September 14th, 2012. 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.