In order to promote applied research from the sphere of marine environmental research while contributing to the internationalization of higher education in Europe, the CSIC through the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB) and the University of Applied Sciences Hochschule Fresenius (Idstein, Germany) have recently signed a Cooperation Agreement, in force since 07 Feb 2017 until 07 Feb 2021.

In particular, this agreement seeks to formalize and promote existing cooperation between the two parties, by sending Erasmus students from the University of Fresenius to the CEAB with the aim of training mid-career students (fifth semester) and final project students (eighth semester) to address issues related to marine environmental changes that may be related to regional or global change, carried out within the framework of the Marine Observatory (OOCS) at CEAB.

Depending on the interest and skills of the student, individual working plans are formulated to focus on areas such as monitoring of the marine environment through in situ and remote observation systems, statistical analysis of environmental time series or numerical simulations of physical and biogeochemical processes.

Regardless the existence of a cooperation agreement, under the framework of the OOCS activities, students are kindly invited to spend a semester or to carry out their masther theses in the fields of coastal operational oceanography, statistical ecology and numerical modelling.

This is a continuous open call. For datails please send a message here.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2013. Statistical analyses of hake-environment and sardine-environment relationships. National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMIRC), Swakopmund, Namibia. 8 - 29 junio 2013.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2013. Dispersió i acoblament plàncton-bentos en el mdi oceànic. Universidad de Barcelona. 25 de febrero de 2013.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2012. Spatial effects of hydrography on sardine and horse mackerel juveniles in Namibian fishing waters.Swakopmund, Namibia. 20 Octubre - 3 noviembre de 2012.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2012. Standardising Horse Mackerel CPUE. Assessing Catch Data of Sardine Fishery by Purse Seine. 24 junio al 8 de julio de 2012.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2011. Selectividad pesquera y estimación de parámetros biológicos.Master en Gestión Pesquera Sostenible. Universidad de Alicante. 10 de noviembre de 2011 (5 horas).

Bahamon, Nixon. 2011. Linkages between Namibian fish resources and the environment. Workshop. National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMIRC), Swakopmund, Namibia. 10 a 14 de octubre de 2011 (40 horas).

Bahamon, Nixon. 2011. Environmental indices as indicators of hake recruitment. 16 - 20 May 2011. Worshop II. National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMIRC), Swakopmund, Namibia.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2011. Standardising fish catches using Generalised Linear Models. Workshop I. 9-13 May 2011. National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMIRC), Swakopmund, Namibia.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2011. Dispersió i acoblament plàncton-bentos en el mdi oceànic. Universidad de Barcelona. 18 de marzo de 2011.

Eearlier activities:

Bahamon, Nixon. 2008, 2009, 2010. Marine Ecosystem Modelling. Master Internacional en Gestión de Zonas Costeras y Estuáricas Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Feb.2008, 2009, 2010.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2006, 2008. Biological functions for estimation of parameters. Máster en Economía y Gestión de la Actividad Pesquera Universitat de Barcelona, Facultad de Economía Universitat d'Alacant, Ministry of Environment, CIHEAM. Oct. 2006, 2008.

Bahamon, Nixon. 2006, 2007. Marine biogeochemical processes and bio-optics.Máster y Doctorado en Ciencias del Mar Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Jun. 2006, Feb. 2007.

¬ Undergraduate students

Reuschel, Charlotte. Sep 2017 - Feb 2018. Biosciences student at the University of Fresenius (Germany). Erasmus Program. Activities: Potential impact of air-sea heat fluxes on biogeochemical characteristics of coastal waters in Catalan Sea (NW Mediterranean).

Albert Dueñas. Aug 2015 - Jul 2016. Environmental Sciences student at University of Barcelona. PI. Activities: Time series analysis of oceanographic data produced by the Marine Observatory (OOCS) at CEAB-CSIC. Advisors: N. Bahamon, CEAB; M. Vidal, UB.

Charlie Gaborit. Jan 2014 – Jun 2014. Master student in Marine Biology and Ecology. University of Aix-Marseille (France). Erasmus Program. Activities: Numerical modeling of the pelagic ecosystem at the Observation Station OOCS in the submarine Blanes canyon head.

Julian Ott. Oct. 2013 – Feb 2014. Chemical Engineering student at the University of Fresenius (Germany). Erasmus Program. Activities: Introduction to coastal oceanography and marine observing systems. Data mining of the marine observing system OOCS.

Martin Schermuly. Sep. 2012 – Feb 2013. Chemical Engineering student at the University of Fresenius (Germany). Erasmus Program. Activities: Introduction to coastal oceanography and marine observing systems. Coupling of a 1DV biogeochemical model to a hydrological model for the permanent station OOCS.

Jan Schaefer. Sep 2010 – Jan 2011. Chemical Engineering student at the University of Fresenius (Germany). Erasmus Program. Activities: Introduction to oceanography and operational oceanography. Implementation of a 1DV model for oceanographic observations.

Carina Muller. Sep 2009 – Jan 2010. Chemical Engineering student at the University of Fresenius (Germany). Erasmus Program. Activities: Activities: Introduction to oceanography and operational oceanography. Implementation of an Operation Manual for the activities at the Operational Observatory of the Catalan Sea (OOCS).

¬ Master Theses

Carmen Ruiz. Dinámica del picoplancton en relación a las variables oceanográficas en el Observatorio Operacional del Mar Catalán. Master thesis. Director: Josep Gasol, ICM-CSIC; Codirector: Nixon Bahamon, CEAB-CSIC. 32 pp. Defense date: Oct 2016

Gaborit, Charlie. 2014. Calibration and validation of a one-dimensional vertically-resolved model simulating the conditions at the permanent observation station OOCS in the Blanes canyon. Coupling of a carbon dioxide model. Director: N. Bahamon. Co-director: R. Bernardello. Université d'Aix Marseille. France. 35 pp.

Alexandra Boné Fernández. 2012. Decapod crustacean larvae from the Blanes submarine canyon area. Director: J.B. Company. Co-directors: N. Bahamon., E. Ramírez-Llodra. CSIC-Universidad de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. 47 pp.

¬ Doctoral Dissertations

Clavel Morane. Modelling larval dispersal and connectivy among Aristeus antennatus populations along the continental slope in NW Mediterranea. Doctoral thesis. in progress. Director: JB Company (ICM-CSIC). Codirectores: N. Bahamon (CEAB-CSIC), J. Solè (ICM-CSIC). Expected defense date: Dec 2019.