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U.S. researchers are trained in Marine Sciences at the University of Alicante
A group of nine graduate students accompanied by two professors from the University of South Alabama have been a stay between August 24 and September 11 at the Centro de Investigations Marinas de Santa Pole. The center is collaboration between the City of Santa Pole and the University of Alicante. The purpose of the stay is to receive training on applied research into the marine environment. The room is organized into theoretical sessions by professors from the Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology of the AU and practical sessions will include the development of a small research project supervised. This is the third time you do the course in Alicante result of the existing Convention at the University of Alicante and University of South Alabama for the exchange of students and teachers of Marine Sciences
The projects this year have evaluated the protection of fish communities in the marine reserve of Tamarac and its evolution, the impact of burial on the meadows of Cymodocea noose and its partner community, the impact of eutrophication and trawling on Posidonia and how they affect these impacts to the pressure of herbivores. These studies have combined experimental approaches to monitoring in the field and have had the invaluable collaboration in the field of the surveillance of the marine reserve under the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Environment and the Municipal Aquarium of Santa Pole.
An important aspect of these rooms is the exchange of experiences with graduate students in Marine Sciences at the University of Alicante to collaborate on the samples taken which is enriching for both parties because of the increasingly international character of scientific research. In addition to facilitating the exchange among students, there has been a mini conference in which both students at the UA and the Alabama and have submitted their thesis topics that has been very enriching.
Moreover, graduate students in Marine Sciences at the University of Alicante have been invited to perform a similar stay in the marine research laboratory in Dauphin Island part of the University of South Alabama whose dates are confirmed. This is a consolidated program since it is the third time will take the course in Alicante for American graduate students.