CIMA researcher Isabel Mendes took part in the "SANIMED 24" campaign, which ran from March 6 to 26 aboard the R/V Sarmiento de Gamboa, in the western Mediterranean Sea.
The SANIMED project "Sediment gravity flows and ANthropogenic Impacts in a MEDiterranean deltaic-and-canyon environment: Causal relationships and consequences, PID2021-125489OB-I00", is led by Dr. Francisco José Lobo, from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, and aims to study the importance of sediment flows in a submarine delta-canyon system on the northern shore of the Alboran Sea.
The campaign collected geophysical data (e.g. ROV, AUV, multibeam, parametric bottom profiler), surface sediment samples (e.g. push-corer, boxcorer) and vertical sediment cores (collected by vibration and gravity). The data obtained will now be processed by the project's scientific team.
Participating in the campaign were the CSIC institutions: IACT, Institut de Cièncias del Mar, Instituto Español de Oceanografía-Málaga; the Universities: Algarve (CIMA), Granada, Cádiz, Almería, Las Palmas, Ghent and the institutions Fundación Museo del Mar de Ceuta, Mission for the Extension of the Continental Shelf (EMEPC), Marine Flanders Institute (VLIZ) and Tecnoambiente.