The VI International Symposium on Marine Sciences, ISMS, has already opened its doors at the Auditorio Mar de Vigo, where for three days around 500 researchers will gather all the national and international scientific knowledge from the different areas of the marine world. The ISMS is promoted by the Conference of Deans of Marine Sciences of Spain and the universities of Vigo, Valencia, Gran Canaria, Barcelona, Cádiz and Alicante, CSIC and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and also has in this edition the collaboration of the City Council of Vigo which is promoting a research and scientific debate workshop to support the candidacy of the Cíes Islands archipelago as a World Heritage Site. It also has the collaboration of the marine technology company Oceomic and the CIFGA laboratory.
The ISMS is a congress, and for the first time the symposium brings together six international conferences: the International Symposium on Marine Sciences (ISMS), the 5th Physical Oceanography Meeting (EOF), the 19th Iberian Seminar on Marine Chemistry (Siquimar), the 13th Iberian Meeting on Toxic Algae and Marine Biotoxins (Redibal), the International Science Conference of the Campus do Mar (ISC CDM) and the Patrimonio Cíes workshop, promoted and promoted by Vigo City Council.
For three days, researchers from 74 cities in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Peru, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Brazil, Italy and Tunisia will gather. With 420 communications and posters, the ISMS will serve as a showcase for the scientific advances that are being achieved in different fields. In addition, it will feature plenary lectures by botanist and algologist Marina Montesor from the Naples Zoological Station; researcher from the Bremen Marum Oscar Romero, who studies the effects of changes in biodiversity and climate on the critical function of marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles; researcher from the University of Liège Aida Alvera, who works on the implementation and validation of 3D hydrodynamic models; and researchers Jorge Cortés, from the University of Costa Rica and Jörg Schéfer, from the University of Bordeaux and Ricardo Torres, from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
“The fact that Vigo is the host city of this event is very relevant, since 40% of national Marine Sciences research is done here,” emphasized Belén Rubio, coordinator of the symposium and vice-rector for Research at the University of Vigo, who emphasized that the city has the highest concentration of marine research centers and companies with their own R&D&I units, as well as the headquarters of the European Fisheries Agency, which places Vigo “at the center of the vanguard of marine research.”
