Friday, March 25, 2011

Argentina .- 'Puerto Deseado' come to Mar del Plata on Monday for the last phase of studies in Antarctica

MADRID, 24 Mar. Oceanographic Vessel "Puerto Deseado 'arrive at Mar del Plata (Argentina) on Monday March 28 to begin the last phase of the 2010/2011 Antarctic campaign Research carried out in the framework of the agreement between National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and Argentine Defense Ministry, as reported by the CONICET.

Thus, the Council recalled that the ship sailed on December 31, 2010, with a crew of approximately 128 men and women, including scientists from the CONICET and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Southern Center for Scientific Research, National University Mar del Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Naval Hydrographic Service, National Fisheries Research and Development and the National Institute of Antarctic and Southern Argentina.

They have also detailed the campaign has been developed in four stages over 90 days. In the first installment is made scientific studies of Argentine coast, from the city of Mar del Plata until his arrival in Ushuaia. From there began the second, when he sailed to Antarctica, where bird surveys were conducted in the Orkney Islands and adjacent waters of the South Shetland Islands.

Back in Ushuaia, as noted by the CONICET, the vessel started the third leg in the area of the Peninsula, sailing through the Gerlache Strait landfall on Deception Island, where fishing hauls began pilot network to find some sort unusual, not registered yet, because the temperature in these particular waters.

Finally, on Monday will start the fourth and final stage, in which groups of researchers from CONICET conduct studies in oceanography, geology and biodiversity.

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