• Portada
    Research partnership
    UNIDAD OCÉANO Y CLIMA
    The Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global and the Institut de Ciències del Mar have similar scientific and technological interests in the area of oceanography.
  • Gamboa
    Oceanographic research
    UNIDAD OCÉANO Y CLIMA
    The geographical areas of research interest of the unit include the Canary Islands region, the subtropical gyre of the North and South Atlantic and the Antarctic Ocean.
  • Cooperación
    Research cooperation
    UNIDAD OCÉANO Y CLIMA
    To formalize and strengthen the collaboration in national and European projects, as well as to jointly apply for funding calls for projects and grants.
  • Satellite image processing, development of inverse modeling techniques and ocean instrumentation.
    Oceanographic development
    UNIDAD OCÉANO Y CLIMA
    Satellite image processing, development of inverse modeling techniques and ocean instrumentation.
  • Algas
    Oceanographic research
    UNIDAD OCÉANO Y CLIMA
    Carbon dioxide absorption by the ocean, biological oceanography with the study of mesoscale eddies and deep-sea carbon sequestration.
  • ice
    Research to resolve
    UNIDAD OCEÁNO Y CLIMA
    Creation of interdisciplinary research groups to approach oceanographic, technological and environmental problems

The Unidad de Océano y Clima (UOC / ULPGC-CSIC) is an R&D&I associated unit between the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). It arises from the shared vision of combining and complementing the knowledge and experience of leading oceanography groups:

          - the Instituto Universitario de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG, ULPGC),

          - the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM, CSIC), and,

          - the Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias (COC, IEO-CSIC), since 2025.

This collaboration aims to strengthen the scientific capacity of the UOC by integrating expertise across multiple branches of oceanography — physical, biological, geological, and chemical — while promoting joint research in data analysis, numerical modelling, and oceanographic instrumentation.

Together, these institutions form a solid, competitive, and interdisciplinary unit dedicated to advancing the understanding of ocean and climate processes at regional and global scales.