The Bilbao Port Authority and the University of the Basque Country have renewed their collaboration agreement to roll out the Biomonitoring Plan of the Port of Bilbao, which includes, for the first
The Bilbao Port Authority and the University of the Basque Country have renewed their collaboration agreement to roll out the Biomonitoring Plan of the Port of Bilbao, which includes, for the first time, monitoring and surveillance of the phytoplankton community.
Since 1994, the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology and the Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology at the University of the Basque Country have provided the Bilbao Port Authority with technical assistance in rolling out the Port's Biomonitoring Plan. The new contract, due to run for four years, is worth USD$916,781 (€785,810).
As part of this collaboration agreement, originally signed over 30 years ago, between the Port and the University, the development of the benthic communities (flora and fauna) in the outer harbor area is closely monitored, and an assessment is made of general trends as well as an analysis of changes in terms of both flora and fauna (composition and relative abundance of species) and at the structural level. In addition, the physical and chemical characteristics of the water column are characterized by measuring parameters such as light extinction coefficient, salinity, turbidity, suspended solids and organic and inorganic matter.
A new feature of the 2025-28 contract is
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