Rearing of zebrafish, mullets, mussels, sea urchins for aquaculture studies
2 Labs adjacent to wet facilities for histology, chemical analysis and imaging (https://cim.uvigo.gal/ecimat/portal-de-reservas/en/223:dry-research-lab…) + 12 m2 Biosecurity Facility (https://cim.uvigo.gal/ecimat/portal-de-reservas/en/155:biosecurity-faci…)
The biosecurity facility has an outlet disinfection to work in open flow with marine bio-hazardous organisms. The facilitiy has 36 x 30 l. subrectangular flat bottom tanks
Taxonomic identification of benthic species
Benthos taxonomy. Expert services available at spin-off http://hydrosphere-lab.es
Labs adjacent to tank rooms for dissection, histology, imaging, molecular biology, cell culture, analytical chemistry, histochemistry and biochemistry, cell separation and fractionation
Taxonomic identification: benthos, microalgae, macroalgae, zooplancton
Expert taxonomic advise for species identification and ecosystems monitoring
Large-scale land-based and sea-based floating mesocosms in a nutrient-rich upwelling area
Mesocosms facilities floating platforms for in situ studies (2m3 bags) as well as land-based facilities (cylindrical tanks, 1m3), with benthic and pelagic tanks. All these facilities allow the experimentation with large seawater volumes in close-to-natural conditions. A 40m2 isotherm chamber is also available for mesocosms research in controlled temperature conditions, as well as microcosms tanks and a laboratory in the mescosmos area.
Processing of side-scan sonar data with software Hypack Marine Search (https://cim.uvigo.gal/ecimat/portal-de-reservas/en/164:sidescan-sonar-p…)
Expert advise is available for analysis of Side Scan data, as well as oceano-meteorological data
Availability of two 20000 L outdoor mesocosms with continuous water flow that can be used for toxicological, nutrition, rearing, climate change studies
Toxicological, nutrition, rearing, climate change studies
Long-term series of hydrographic variables and HF radar (https://cim.uvigo.gal/ecimat/portal-de-reservas/en/165:torallamar.html)
Oceano-meterological station installed 100 m from ECIMAT. Data every 10' since 2013. Expert advice is available for analysis of this ancillary data
2 Wet labs equipped for different experimentation sets.https://cim.uvigo.gal/ecimat/portal-de-reservas/en/222:wet-research-lab…
Available for studies in aquaculture, climate change, population genetics, disease challenge, ecotoxicology...
