O Castro British School students get to know ECIMAT under the BAPSI project in collaboration with Conxemar

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Alumnado de O Castro British School coñecen a ECIMAT ao abeiro do proxecto BAPSI e en colaboración con Conxemar
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The Toralla Marine Science Station, ECIMAT, was visited this Friday by a group of 41 students from 4º of ESO and 2º of baccalaureate at the O Castro British International School in Vigo under the activities organized within the framework of the European project Bapsi, Blue Academy for Professionals of the Seafood Industry, in which Conxemar participates, who contacted the Marine Research Center of the University of Vigo (CIM) to jointly develop a series of activities, including these informative visits.

Accompanied by three of their teachers and two representatives of Conxemar, the students had the opportunity to get to know the different facilities of ECIMAT, from the Cryopreservation Laboratory, where the researcher Estefanía Paredes gave them a brief presentation of the work done at this lab, to the phytoplankton and zooplankton rooms, the photobioreactor, the Oceanography Unit, the Ecimat pump room, and the mesocosm facilities, among others. They completed the tour outside, where they were able to take samples of wildlife and sediment on the beach on the island of Toralla.

The visit also included a talk by Jesús López, of the EcoCost research group, on the research that this team is carrying out in Antarctica and in which he spoke about the effects of climate change on the so-called frozen continent, focusing especially on the case of algae degradation and its impact on the intertidal communities of Deception Island, where the Spanish Antarctic bases are located.

Source: DUVI