SOCIB visitors: a delegation from the European Investment Bank (EIB), visited SOCIB

A delegation from the European Investment Bank (Antonella Calvia, Martin Arnold, Andrés Gavira) accompanied by the Bureau of Science and Technology Planning, visited SOCIB headquarters on October 11th, 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.

Related Links

• http://www.eib.org
  
• Presentation