BCN UW Forum is part of the Underwater Festival and represents the communication link between the general public, researchers, scholars, universities, public & private companies, and governments. It aims to be the venue of exposure, and education at an understandable level, on such issues affecting the underwater environment, to which the population has long claimed the relevant information in order to get involved.
Talks on underwater environment . Free entry.
Host: Guillem Roca.
Date: Monday the 24th until Thursday the 27th november 2014.
Time: 18:00h to 20:00h.
Venue: BMM Assembly Hall
Below: table of talks on the underwater environment under the following headings by speakers of acclaimed authority in their specific fields
| Seminars on Fisheries and Aquaculture | ||||
| 24-XI-2014
18:00-18:40 |
Fishery resources | Jordi Lleonart | Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM). Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CSIC) | MMB
Assembly hall |
| 24-XI-2014
18:40-19:20 |
What do caged fish eat? | Albert Girons | Veterinary Services for the Aquaculture (ICTIOVET) | MMB
Assembly hall |
| 24-XI-2014
19:20-20:00 |
Fishery and plastics: anthropogenic disturbance of the benthic ecosystem | Montserrat Demestre | Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM). Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CSIC) | MMB
Assembly hall |
| Seminars on Conservation of the Seas | ||||
| 25-XI-2014
18:00-18:40 |
Sea Watchers: citizens and scientifics colaborating |
Pere Abelló | Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM).
Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CSIC) |
MMB
Assembly Hall |
| 25-XI-2014
18:40-19:20 |
Protecting the Oceans.
Pristine Seas Project. |
Enric Ballesteros | Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB). Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CSIC) | MMB
Assembly Hall |
| 25-XI-2014
19:20-20:00 |
The Forest at the Bottom of the Sea. | Josep Maria Gili | Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM). Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CSIC) | MMB
Assembly Hall |
| Seminars on Underwater Archaeology |
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| 26-XI-2014
18:00-18:30 |
Underwater Archeology Watchers | Carles Aguilar | Archaeologist, Chief of the Department for protection of the Underwater Archaeologic Heritage (FECDAS/CMAS) | MMB
Assembly Hall |
| 26-XI-2014
18:30-19:20 |
Methodology for locating sunken ships and Underwater Heritage Protection | Frederic Malagelada | Lawyer, Diver & Underwater Historian | MMB
Assembly Hall |
| 26-XI-2014
19:20-20:00 |
Underwater Heritage, UNESCO Rules | Arturo Rey da Silva | Expert of the “UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage” (2001) | MMB
Assembly Hall |
| Seminars on Biological Markers of the State of the Seas | ||||
| 27-XI-2014
18:00-18:40 |
Jellyfish | Verónica Fuentes | Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM). Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CSIC) | MMB
Assembly Hall |
| 27-XI-2014
18:00-18:40 |
Sharks: Victims or Killers? | Patricio Bultó | Aquari de Barcelona | MMB
Assembly Hall |
| 27-XI-2014
18:00-18:40 |
Posidonia, the submerged forests | Javier Romero | Departament d’Ecologia de la Universitat de Barcelona (UB) | MMB
Assembly Hall |