Richard Dugdale

Today, some souvenirs of the visit of Dr. Dugdale to our University as professor in the Master of Oceanography. Dr. Dugdale is currently working in the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies at San Francisco State University. He is Senior Research Scientist in Romberg Tiburon Center, Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University, and Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Southern California. The outstanding contribution of Dr. Dugdale to biological oceanography inspired most of our work during the last decades. It has been an honour for us to receive him in our Faculty. Our students are the privileged few who enjoyed his teaching. Below some photographs of his visite to the Canary Islands.

Ted Packard and Dick Dugdale, two generations in biological oceanography.

Ted Packard, May Gómez and Dick Dugdale at the Marina of Mogán at the south of Gran Canaria Island. Nice place and nice people.

Javier Arístegui, Santiago Hernández-León, Dick Dugdale and Ted Packard. Three generations of oceanographers at work.


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Working very hard.



Nice place for lunch and nice photograph (thanks May).

Finally, the paper of today is a very recent publication by Iván Alonso-González et al. in the last number of Global Biogeochemical Cycles about the lateral transport of particulate organic carbon. Very, very interesting paper. Compulsory reading for all the members of the biological oceanography team.

Terry Joyce

Today, some photographs of one of the professors invited to our Master in Oceanography. Dr. Terry Joyce is currently collaborating with our physical oceanographers, especially Dr. Alonso Hernández-Guerra. Dr. Joyce gave some advanced lectures in physical oceanography. He is Senior Scientist in Physical Oceanography in WHOI and Director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute. His research interests is in oceanic fronts and mixing phenomena, dynamics of warm core Gulf Stream rings, shipboard acoustic profiling of ocean currents, hydrographic sampling, oceanic subduction, physics of hydrothermally forced circulation and decadal variability.

Dr. Joyce

In this photograph, Dr. Terry Joyce with the physical oceanography mafia of the Canary Islands plus some biological oceanographers. From left to right: Dr. Eugenio Fraile, Dr. Pedro Vélez (both at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography in Tenerife), Dr. Joyce, David Sosa, Dr. Alonso Hernández-Guerra, Dr. May Gómez and Dr. Ted Packard.

The recommended paper today is Shanahan et al., published in the last number of Science, about the droughts in West Africa and the Atlantic forcing. Below is the abstract.

Net Community Production

For those who still believe that subtropical oceans are net heterotrophic, hereby an interesting paper by Quay et al. published in the last number of Global Biogeochemical Cycles. The question rapidly arises. What happens inside the bottles? Are experiments with the oxygen method bad designed? Are all the others in the wrong way? Comments to the paper are welcome.

All the orchestra

To start the blog, a photograph of all the orchestra during Christmas of 2007. Nice people.

New blog for the Biological Oceanography WG

In 2007, I started a blog for the working group on biological oceanography from the Marine Science Faculty at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Unfortunately, this blog was stopped for a long time, first because I lost the password (glub!) and secondly because I had no time for these little but important things. At last, I was able to find and change the password and now I will be happy to start a new challenge, to inform all the group and followers about our activities, projects,... So, the tool is open and the members of the group have now a place to post information, photographs, videos, papers,... and all that you consider of interest for everybody, including our students. Perhaps, this is a way to post information of importance for the people engaged in our subjects, especially those in the master degree and at the PhD level. Please, send me the information and I will do my best to post it in the blog as soon as possible.

I also push the different principal investigators to add a blog for their current projects. If you need some advice, I can help to start the blog. I think it is a right way to give some propaganda to our activities.

Santiago Hernández-León