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1st Symposium Redes Fantasma
The Redes Fantasma is a symposium about lost marine trawls, to mark and to try to recover them held in Peniche (Portugal) on March 20th 2025. It was organized by the Rotary Club Atlantico Região Oeste D1960 with collaboration in the organization of NGO Ocean Patrol.
Our Ph D student Davide Bonomo was participating with an speak about Side Scan Sonar.
Side Scan Sonar Study of the Morro de Toix Seacliff base (Calpe, Alicante)
The Morro de Toix seacliff, located South of Calpe, on the Alicante coast in southeastern Spain, is a 70 to 30 m high seacliff. The western portion is plane and eastern portion of the seacliff is highly karstified and overhanging. The foot is currently submerged. An USV (Unmanned Surface Vessel) platform adapted to be towed by a manned vehicle, a paddle surfboard, has been used, with the aim of studying the geomorphology of the underwater part. To study the submerged bottom of the cliff, an USV (Unmmaned Surface Vessel) platform has been used. It has been adapted to be towed by a crewed vehicle, a paddle surfboard. This is an easy and fast procedure when a short excellent weather conditions windows is found obtaining good side scan sonar, single beam and downscan data. The result of the processed data has shown a metric-blocky seabed near the cliff and the underwater cliff is excavated around 3-4 m in the western portion and irregulary excavated in the eastern part with many cove and caves.
cite as: Bonomo, D., Ronda, J. L., Benabdeloued, B. Y. N., Tent-Manclús, J. E., Salcedo-Justicia, E. M. y Alcántara-Carrió, J. (2024): Estudio con sonar de barrido lateral de la base del acantilado del Morro de Toix (Calpe, Alicante). In: Palomar Vazquez, J. y Pardo Pascual, J. (Eds.). GEOLIT24 – Libro de Actas – XII Jornadas de Geomorfología Litoral. 25-27 de septiembre de 2024. Valencia. 254-259. https://doi.org/10.4995/GEOLIT24.2024.18726
IX International Symposium on Marine Sciences (Valencia).
Our thinkinazul project Molico-CV presented four works at the XII Jornadas de Geomorfologia Litoral held in Valencia (Spain) from September 25 to 27, 2024.
- Morphometric analysis of the Alicante coast.
- The Ifach Rock and the coast between Calpe and Moraira.
- Side Scan Sonar in Morro de Toix (Calpe).
- The notch in Morro de Toix (Calpe).
Works presented to the IX International Symposium on Marine Sciences (Valencia):
- Benabdeloued, B. Y. N., Ronda, J. L., Tent-Manclús, J. E., Bonomo, D. y Alcántara-Carrió, J. (2024): Coastal studies with an USV. IX International Symposium on Marine Sciences (Valencia). 1083 Poster
- Alcántara-Carrió, J., Fontán-Bouzas, A., Bonomo, D. y Tent-Manclús, J.E. (2024): Geomorphological análisis of the inner continental shelf of the Prebetic system (southeast Iberian Peninsula). IX International Symposium on Marine Sciences (Valencia). 1089 Poster
- Tent-Manclús, J. E., Bonomo, D., Alcántara-Carrió, J., Salcedo-Justicia, E. M. y Estévez, A. (2024): Morro de Toix recent notch (Alicante, SE Spain). IX International Symposium on Marine Sciences (Valencia). 1092 Poster
- Bonomo, D., Tent-Manclús, J. E., Alcántara-Carrió, Portantiolo Manzolli, R., Jordá Guijarro, J., Arteaga Cardineau, J., Navarro Pedreño, J., Jordan, M. y Narváez, C. R. (2024): Record of a high energy event in the coastal plain of Guardamar de Segura (Alicante, SE Spain). IX International Symposium on Marine Sciences (Valencia). 1094 Poster
XII Geolit Congress (Valencia)
Our thinkinazul project Molico-CV presented four works at the XII Jornadas de Geomorfologia Litoral held in Valencia (Spain) from September 25 to 27, 2024.
- Morphometric analysis of the Alicante coast.
- The Ifach Rock and the coast between Calpe and Moraira.
- Side Scan Sonar in Morro de Toix (Calpe).
- The notch in Morro de Toix (Calpe).
Works presented to the XII Jornadas de Geomorfología Litoral:
- Alcántara Carrió, J., Tent Manclús, J. E., Bonomo, D., Fontán Bouzas, A., Portz, L. y Manzolli, R. (2024): High-resolution morphometric analysis of the rocky coast of the Prebetic System (southeast Iberian Peninsula). In: Palomar Vazquez, J. y Pardo Pascual, J. (Eds.). GEOLIT24 – Libro de Actas – XII Jornadas de Geomorfología Litoral. 25-27 de septiembre de 2024. Valencia. 214-220. https://doi.org/10.4995/GEOLIT24.2024.18736
- Alcántara Carrió, J., Tent Manclús, J. E., Bonomo, D., Fontán Bouzas, A., Portz, L. y Manzolli, R. (2024): The Pleistocene double tombolo of Calpe and the submerged fault scarps between Moraria Point and Ifach Rock (southeast Iberian Peninsula). In: Palomar Vazquez, J. y Pardo Pascual, J. (Eds.). GEOLIT24 – Libro de Actas – XII Jornadas de Geomorfología Litoral. 25-27 de septiembre de 2024. Valencia. 221-227. https://doi.org/10.4995/GEOLIT24.2024.18864.
- Bonomo, D., Ronda, J. L., Benabdeloued, B. Y. N., Tent-Manclús, J. E., Salcedo-Justicia, E. M. y Alcántara-Carrió, J. (2024): Estudio con sonar de barrido lateral de la base del acantilado del Morro de Toix (Calpe, Alicante). In: Palomar Vazquez, J. y Pardo Pascual, J. (Eds.). GEOLIT24 – Libro de Actas – XII Jornadas de Geomorfología Litoral. 25-27 de septiembre de 2024. Valencia. 254-259. https://doi.org/10.4995/GEOLIT24.2024.18726.
- Tent-Manclús, J. E., Bonomo, D., Alcántara-Carrió, J. y Salcedo-Justicia, E. M. (2024): Evolución reciente del notch del acantilado marino del Morro de Toix (Alicante, SE España). In: Palomar Vazquez, J. y Pardo Pascual, J. (Eds.). GEOLIT24 – Libro de Actas – XII Jornadas de Geomorfología Litoral. 25-27 de septiembre de 2024. 318-323. Valencia. https://doi.org/10.4995/GEOLIT24.2024.18729
Spanish Geological Congress in Avila
Our thinkinazul project Molico-CV presented three presentations at the XI Spanish Geological Congress held in Ávila (Spain) from July 1 to 6, 2024.
- A high energy event in the last 2000 years at Guardamar de Segura.
- The Seacliff of Morro de Toix (Alicante)
- The development of a homemade USV (Uncrewed Surface Vehicle). See the picture bellow.
Works presented to the XI Spanish Geological Congress:
- Benabdeloued, B. Y. N., Ronda, J. L., Tent-Manclús, J. E., Bonomo, D. y Alcántara-Carrió, J. (2024): Desarrollo de un USV para trabajos costeros. Geotemas, 20: 46.
- Bonomo, D., Tent-Manclús, J. E., Alcántara-Carrió, J., Portantiolo Manzolli, R., Jordá Guijarro, J., Arteaga Cardineau, C., Navarro Pedreño, J., Jordan, M., y Narváez, C. R. (2024): Registro de un evento de alta energía en la planicie costera de Guardamar de Segura (Alicante, SE España). Geotemas, 20: 1132-1135.
- Tent-Manclús, J. E., Bonomo, D., Alcántara-Carrió, J. y Estévez, A. (2024): Evolución reciente del acantilado marino del Morro de Toix (Alicante, SE España). Geotemas, 20: 89-92.
Alicante 2024 Thinkinazul meeting
Last june 11th to 13th 2024 in the Universidad de Alicante facilities took place the third meeting of the of the Valencian Comunity Thinkinazul project.
The meeting was in the Alfredo Orts degrees room. Below a picture of some of the attendents.
ROV driving experience
Students in the third year of the Geology Degree of the course “Geophysics and geophysical prospecting”, under the supervision of Professor José Enrique Tent Manclús, carried out practices in the University of Alicante Ducks pond to learn how to drive a ROV. The picture show some students trying to understand the ROV commands (left).
Best article in the field of marine technology and renewable energy in the Martech workshop
Award for the best article in the field of marine technology and renewable energy sponsored by Nautilus Oceanica at the Martech 2023 congress, Tenth international workshop on marine technology, Jaume I University, Castellón de la Plana. For the article entitled: “Low cost USV development to study spring ponds” by Ronda, J. L., Benabdeloued, B. Y. N. and Tent-Manclús, J. E. belonging to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Seismic Network of the Valencian Community (SISCOVA).
The article deals with the development of a USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicle) a surface unmanned ship for the study of springs. It is a small remote-controlled vehicle with a control post, from where it is manned. It has two cameras, one underwater and one frontal, which transmit real-time GPS location, also in real time, and bathymetry probe sensors and side-scan Sonar.
The authors with the USV team.
MOLICO-CV a thinkinazul Project
The project will study changes in the coast-line, coastal risk and coastal aquifers, an its logo is:
The leadership of the project is carried out by researches of the MIES is a Multidisciplinary Research Institute for Environmental Studies “Ramón Margalef” (Instituto Multidisciplinario para el estudio del Medio “Ramon Margalef”, IMEM in Spanish) of the Alicante University and integrate researches of 10 universities and research institutions.
The EU funded ThinkInAzul programme supported by MCIN (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1) and by Generalitat Valenciana
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