Innovation Capabilities & Products
- Software | GOVOCITOS
Govocitos is a free image analysis software that allows for easy and accurate determination of reproductive parameters in fish based on histological images. Although designed to estimate fish fertility, its applications are expandable to other counting, measurement and classification problems (i.e. pollen count, oncology and cytology, etc.).
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- Capabilities | Assessment of the survival of fisheries by-catch and fish spatial ecology using biotelemetry techniques
Use of acoustic tags and biotelemetry techniques to monitor fish behavior and assess the survival of fisheries by-catch.
- Capabilities | Pathogen incidence and risk assessment
Pathogen detection and identification in wild and farmed animals, as well as in seafood products. Evaluation of the relationship between pathogen incidence and various environmental and physiological aspects to provide risk assessments for target pathogens.
- Capabilities | Definition and description of marine ecosystemsFisheries Aquaculture Ecosystem Services & Governance Coastal & Environmental Protection Maritime Spatial Planning
The definition and description of ecosystems involving marine resources, in terms of scale, extent, structure, and functioning. This includes characterizing the spatial, structural, and functional aspects of marine-coastal ecosystems as basic units for environmental land-use planning.
- Capabilities | Assessment of marine ecosystems status
The evaluation of marine ecosystem status, defined in terms of environmental health or integrity and established as what is acceptable to society, as well as the assessment of threats. This involves using indicators of ecosystem extent and condition.
- Industrial Secret | Industrial production protocol for seahorses (Hippocampus reidi)
Authors: Miquel Planas Oliver; Alexandre Chamorro Valverde
Description: Development of integrated culture procedures for the industrial production of seahorses of the species Hippocampus reidi.
- Capabilities | Conservation, protection and rehabilitation of marine ecosystems
The conservation, protection, and rehabilitation of marine ecosystems and the mitigation of impacts using adaptation strategies. This includes identifying key considerations for the potential design and planning of biodiversity compensation measures and their scope in environmental impact assessments.
- Capabilities | Integrative Biodiversity Research
The study of biodiversity with an integrative approach. This involves examining biodiversity at multiple levels, from genes to ecosystems, and considering the interactions between biodiversity and human activities, including the provision of ecosystem services.
- Capabilities | Development and application of molecular methodologies for the identification and quantification of marine species in environmental samples
Identification of new molecular markers for species identification through Next-Generation Sequencing in environmental DNA samples, with applications for biodiversity monitoring and fisheries stock assessment.
- Capabilities | Biodiversity AssessmentMarine instruments & sensors Coastal & Environmental Protection Maritime Spatial Planning Ecosystem Services & Governance
Monitoring temporal and spatial distribution of species, abundance and biomass from several taxa using different techniques such as e-DNA, pigment characterization, flow cytometry, acoustic telemetry, images collected from remote observation systems (i.e. drones, etc.) or classic taxonomic identification.