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ANNUAL REPORT 2023

Relevant news 2023

Some events and conferences at the facilities of IHCantabria

IHCantabria received the international group of students of the Erasmus Mundus COASTHAZAR Master’s program

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IHCantabria presented final results of the SIAAMETOC-2 project

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The metaverse and augmented reality are already part of the ICT tools that IHCantabria will use to provide information, thanks to a project developed with companies from South Korea

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IHCantabria celebrates the inauguration of the project ‘Complementary Studies for the Comprehensive Solution to Flooding on the Malecón in Havana, Cuba’

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Specialists in Blue and Sustainable Tourism participated in the first industry round table of the Bahía Plan

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Five entities from Cantabria presented the NBRACER European project, which offers nature-based solutions for the regional climate resilience of the Atlantic Ocean

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IHCantabria organised a meeting announcing the coordination the Integrated Management Plan for the Santander Bay

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IHCantabria brought to Santander members of a European project for operational forecasting of maritime transport pollution

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First Meeting on Blue Economy: Progress and Future being held in Cantabria at IHCantabria

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IHCantabria received a delegation of companies from South Korea which will develop a project based on the use of IT and communications technologies

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IHCantabria hosted the “BEACON” International Symposium on the adaptation to climate change in the coastal built environment

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Scientific and technological knowledge and experience exchange mission between experts of IHCantabria and of the Environmental Agency of Cuba

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IHCantabria hosted a scientific-technical coordination meeting for the R&D&I Complementary Plan in Marine Science, ‘ThinkInAzul’

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IHCantabria hosted the first coordination meeting of the R&D&I Complementary Plan in Marine Science in Cantabria

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The Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment of Cuba and IHCantabria update their agreement for scientific and technological cooperation for 2023

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Some events and conferences outside the facilities of IHCantabria

Completion of the COASTAL-COVER European project for the protection of the coasts of Malta, with a major participation of IHCantabria

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The Port Authority commissions IHCantabria to carry out a hydrodynamic study of the navigation channel and the beach system

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NEAMWave23: exercise to assess communication and response to tsunami events in the North East of the Atlantic Ocean on 6th of November

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IHCantabria participated in the Latin American and the Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW) being held in Panama

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IHCantabria participated in the II Environmental Sustainability and Port Management Conferences held in Huelva

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IHCantabria Managers participated in the final session of Blue Growth projects and in the Annual Meeting of the National Network of Knowledge Spaces

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Artificial intelligence and Climate Change Risks, two courses leaded by IHCantabria in the Ports Week

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Workshop on Standardized Operations Procedures (SOP) for early warning and the emergency response to tsunamis

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IHCantabria Researcher María Maza, delivered the 8th edition of the Brunings Lecture at Utrecht University

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Presentation of the Institutional Chair in Artificial Intelligence applied to Ports “AI Santander Port”

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Some actions of Communication and Scientific Outreach

Participation in the XI European Night of Researchers at the University of Cantabria

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Organization of the III Meeting with female scientists from Cantabria for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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Some international research and cooperation scholarships

The European Commission awards a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship to Itxaso Oderiz for research at IHCantabria

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IHCantabria’s commitment to international cooperation has an impact beyond the academic and professional realms

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List of scientific publications

NameJournal
Laboratory evaluation of the effectiveness of nature-assisted beach enhancement techniquesCoastal Engineering
Hydrodynamic analysis and optimization of a floating wave energy converter with moonpool using OpenFOAM®Applied Ocean Research
Lagrangian modelling of oil concentrations at sea: A sensitivity analysis to the grid resolution and number of Lagrangian elementsMarine Pollution Bulletin
Mediterranean springs: Keystone ecosystems and biodiversity refugia threatened by global changeGlobal Change Biology
Use of Big Data for Flood Assessment Through HEC-RAS Model: A Study of Purna River of NavsariLecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Chronic exposure to environmental temperature attenuates the thermal sensitivity of salmonidsNature Communications
Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshesScientific Data
Flaws in the methodologies for organic carbon analysis in seagrass blue carbon soilsLimnology and Oceanography: Methods
Wave forces on vertical caissons with retreated wall: A first experimental insightCoastal Engineering
Numerical modeling of tsunamis generated by granular landslides in OpenFOAM®: A Coulomb viscoplastic rheologyCoastal Engineering
On the assessment of the wave modeling uncertainty in wave climate projectionsEnvironmental Research Letters
Demonstrating the value of beaches for adaptation to future coastal flood riskNature Communications
Assessment and exploitation of coastal low resolution mode sea level data from CryoSat-2 on the entrance to the Gulf of CaliforniaAdvances in Space Research
Are We Underestimating the Risk of Coastal Flooding in Europe? The Relevance of Critical InfrastructureJournal of Marine Science and Engineering
Status of global coastal adaptationNature Climate Change
A nearshore evolution model for sandy coasts: IH-LANSlocEnvironmental Modelling and Software
Gain scheduling model predictive control for dynamic positioning of floating caissons at different draughtsInternational Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
Human activities disrupt the temporal dynamics of salinity in Spanish riversHydrobiologia
Large-scale factors controlling biological communities in the Iberian Peninsula: an insight into global change effects on river ecosystemsAquatic Sciences
A new predictive tool for modeling wave attenuation produced by saltmarshes in SWAN based on standing biomassCoastal Engineering
Observation of the Coastal Areas, Estuaries and Deltas from SpaceSurveys in Geophysics
NEOPRENE v1.0.1: A Python library for generating spatial rainfall based on the Neyman-Scott processGeoscientific Model Development
Towards Adaptive Water Management—Optimizing River Water Diversion at the Basin Scale under Future Environmental ConditionsWater (Switzerland)
A Dynamic Estuarine Classification of the Vertical Structure Based on the Water Column Density Slope and the Potential Energy AnomalyWater (Switzerland)
Towards blue growth: Multi-use possibilities for the development of emerging sectors in the Brazilian seaOcean and Coastal Management
Multivariate assessment of port operability and downtime based on the wave-induced response of moored ships at berthsOcean Engineering
The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a haltNature
Drivers of variability in Blue Carbon stocks and burial rates across European estuarine habitatsScience of the Total Environment
Performance evaluation of a global CMIP6 single forcing, multi wave model ensemble of wave climate simulationsOcean Modelling
Biofilm-induced effect on the buoyancy of plastic debris: An experimental studyMarine Pollution Bulletin
Numerical modeling of wave overtopping of damaged and upgraded rubble-mound breakwatersOcean Engineering
Improved hydrodynamic performance of an OWC device based on a Helmholtz resonatorEnergy
Inside a beach drainage system: A three-dimensional modelingInternational Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering
Characterization of Gelidium corneum's (Florideophyceae, Rhodophyta) vegetative propagation process under increasing levels of temperature and irradianceMarine Environmental Research
Analysis of the Mooring Effects of Future Ultra-Large Container Vessels (ULCV) on Port InfrastructuresJournal of Marine Science and Engineering
Simulation of mooring Lines in complex bathymetries using a finite element methodOcean Engineering
A changing wave climate in the Mediterranean Sea during 58-years using UERRA-MESCAN-SURFEX high-resolution wind fieldsOcean Engineering
Multimodal harbor wave climate characterization based on wave agitation spectral typesCoastal Engineering
Ecosystem-level effects of re-oligotrophication and N:P imbalances in rivers and estuaries on a global scaleGlobal Change Biology
Working with nature to enhance beach accretion: Laboratory experiments of beach ploughingCoastal Engineering
Mangrove forests as a nature-based solution for coastal flood protection: Biophysical and ecological considerationsWater Science and Engineering
Connection between Weather Types and Air Pollution Levels: A 19-Year Study in Nine EMEP Stations in SpainInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Wave-induced cross-shore distribution of different densities, shapes, and sizes of plastic debris in coastal environments: A laboratory experimentMarine Pollution Bulletin
The hydrodynamic performance of a shore-based oscillating water column device under random wave conditionsOcean Engineering
Large-scale spatial patterns of riverine communities: niche versus geographical distanceBiodiversity and Conservation
Editorial: Consequences of global change in coastal ecosystems from a multidisciplinary perspectiveFrontiers in Marine Science
Exploring the newly emerging effects of native seagrasses on survival and growth of non-native juvenile clamsFrontiers in Marine Science
A numerical study of the mixing and stratification alterations in estuaries due to climate change using the potential energy anomalyFrontiers in Marine Science
Tracing the introduction of Dictyota acutiloba (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) in the Mediterranean Sea, with a reassessment of its geographic distributionEuropean Journal of Phycology
Passive rewilding in the Cantabrian Mountain Range: scientific basis and challenges for socio-ecological sustainability [Renaturalización pasiva en la Cordillera Cantábrica: bases y retos científicos para una sostenibilidad socio-ecológica]Ecosistemas
Estimating extreme monthly rainfall for Spain using non-stationary techniquesHydrological Sciences Journal
Correction:Environmental Compatibility of the Parc Tramuntana Offshore Wind Project in Relation to Marine Ecosystems(J. Mar. Sci. Eng., (2022), 10, (898), 10.3390/jmse10070898)Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Neglecting the effect of long- and short-term erosion can lead to spurious coastal flood risk projections and maladaptationCoastal Engineering
An evaluation of freshwater monitoring programs in ILTER nodes and mountain national parks: identifying key variables to monitor global change effectsBiodiversity and Conservation
Computations of pressure loads on an oscillating water column with experimental comparison for random wavesCoastal Engineering
SOSeas Web App: An assessment web-based decision support tool to predict dynamic risk of drowning on beaches using deep neural networksJournal of Operational Oceanography