Research Projects (Competitive Calls)

17. Title: New tools to unravel the algal turfs success in replacing degraded kelp forest: a metabarcoding approach (METATURF)
Funded by: : Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
Quantity: 192.500 €
Participants: USC and CIIMAR (Portugal)
From 2024 to 2027.
Principal Researcher: PhD Pilar Díaz Tapia
Participant as: Working group
16. Title: PlasticStork.
Funded by: : Asociación Amigas das Cegoñas, Ecoloxistas en acción, SEO-BirdLife and Ecoembes.
Quantity: 3000 €.
Participants: USC, Amigas das cegoñas.
From September 2023 to August 2024
Principal Researcher: PhD Zulema Varela
Participant as: PI
15. Title: METAP- Manipulative Experiments: Trees, Arthropods, Predators.
Funded by: Czech Academy of Sciences.
Quantity: -.
Participants: INRAE (France), Czech Academy of Sciences,CSIC(Spain),..., USC.
From 2023 to 2025.
Principal Researcher: PhD Anna Mrazova.
Participant as: Researcher
14. Title: Resilience of macrophyte species to stress temperature pulses (RESIST).
Funded by: EU-funded AQUACOSM-plus.
Quantity: cover expenses for experiments and accommodation of stay.
Participants: IOE-Coruña, UHelsinki (Finland), IMDC (Belgium), Centre of Marine Sciences of Algarve (Portugal), UVigo and USC (Spain).
From June to December 2022.
Principal Researchers: PhD Inés Viana.
Participant as: Researcher
13. Title: TREEBODYGUARDS.
Reference: ANR-10-LABX-45 Funded by: French National Research Agency (ANR) and 'BNP Paribas' Foundation.
Quantity: 60.000 €
Participants: INRAE (France), Czech Academy of Sciences,CSIC(Spain), Stockholm University (Sweeden) ,University of Turku (Finland),..., USC.
From: 2021 to 2022.
Principal Researchers: PhD Bastien Castagneyrol.
Participant as: Researcher
12. Title: Quantifying spatio-temporal long-term changes in pelagic food web kinetics and structure (QLOCKS).
Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Quantity: 60.000 €
Participants: IEO-Coruña, IIM-CSIC, CEMMA, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
From: 2021 until 2024.
Principal Researchers: PhD Antonio Bode Riestra and Jaime Otero Villar.
Participant as: Working group
11. Title: Scaling the effects of niche and ecological interactions on species coexistence (SCENIC).
Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Quantity: 141.000 €
Participants: MNCN,UAM, US,UV ECOTOX-USC from Spain, UPorto and Ulisboa from Portugal.
From: 01/01/2020 until 31/12/2023.
Principal Researchers: PhD Nagore García Medina and Joaquín Hortal
Participant as: Working group
10. Title: ECOTOX. Consolidación en estructuración de unidades de investigación competitivas 2020. (Grupos de referencia competitivas) [Consolidation in structuring competitive research units]
Reference: GRC (2020-PG006)
Funded by: Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria. Xunta de Galicia.
Quantity: 200.000 €
Participants: ECOTOX-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
From: 01/01/2020 until 30/1/2023.
Principal Researchers: PhD Alejo Carballeira Ocaña
Participant as: Researcher
9. Title: Emprego de árbores como filtros verdes de hidrocarburos en ambientes urbanos. [Use of trees as green filters for hydrocarbons in urban environments]
Funded by: Complementary aid for postdoctoral contracts of Xunta de Galicia (Modalidade B 2019).
Quantity: 25.000 €
Participants: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
From 15/11/2019 until 14/05/2022.
Principal Researchers: PhD Zulema Varela Río.
Participant as: PI
8. Título: SoilSkin - La Piel Viva del Suelo: Un programa de ciencia ciudadana para evaluar la vulnerabilidad del ecosistema suelo frente al cambio global. [Soil Skin: A citizen science programme to assess the vulnerability of the soil ecosystem to global change].
Reference: FCT-18-13511
Funded by: Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT).
Quantity: 22.000 €
Participants: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Cádiz, Universidad de Valencia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
From 01/09/2019 until 31/08/2020.
Principal Researchers: PhD Nagore García Medina and Joaquín Hortal.
Participant as: Researcher.
7. Título: MedMossRoofs: Urban green covers based on mosses with no irrigation requirements under Mediterranean climate .
Reference: PTDC/ATPARP/5826/2014
Funded by: Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal.
Quantity: 193.430 €
Participants: Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), Instituto Superior de Agronomía de Lisboa (Portugal), University of Greenwich (London,UK).
From: 01/04/2016 until 31/03/2018.
Principal Researcher: Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho.
Participant as: Researcher.
6. Title: Estandarización y optimización del empleo de briófitos para la biomonitorización pasiva y activa de la calidad de aguas continentales. Elaboración de protocolos. [Standardization and optimization of the use of bryophytes for passive and active biomonitoring of inland water quality. Elaboration of protocols]
Reference: CTM2016-70578-P
Funded by: Programa Nacional de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental, subprograma de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental no Orientada, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Quantity: 160.083 €
Participants: ECOTOX-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
From: 01/01/2016 until: 31/12/2018
Principal Researcher: PhD Jesús R. Aboal Viñas and Carlos Real Rodríguez
Participant as: Researcher.
5. Title: Biomonitorización de la calidad del aire. [Biomonitoring of air quality]
Funded by: Bioeconomy Performance Agreement Programme, Universidad de Concepcion (Chile).
Quantity: 6.438 €
Participants: Universidad de Concepción (Chile).
From 01/04/2015 until 31/07/2015.
Principal Researchers: PhD Zulema Varela Río.
Participant as: PI
4. Title: ECOTOX. Consolidación en estructuración de unidades de investigación competitivas 2012. (Grupos de referencia competitivas) [Consolidation in structuring competitive research units].
Reference: GRC (2012-PG019) Funded by: Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria. Xunta de Galicia.
Quantity: 200.000 €
Participants: ECOTOX-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
From: 17/06/2012 until: 30/11/2015
Principal Researcher: PhD Alejo Carballeira Ocaña
Participant as: Researcher.
3. Title: Creating and testing a method for controlling the air quality based on a new biotechnological tool. Use of a devitalized moss clone as passive contaminant sensor.
Reference: MossClone 282952
Funded by: Comisión Europea 7º Programa Marco.
Quantity: 3.492.000 €
From: 01/04/2012 until: 30/03/2015
Principal Researcher: PhD José A. Fernández Escribano
Participant as: Contracted and Researcher.
2. Title: Biomonitorización activa de la calidad del aire con musgos terrestres: estándarización y optimización de la metodología. [Active biomonitoring of air quality with terrestrial mosses: standardisation and optimisation of the methodology]
Reference: CTM2011-30305
Funded by: Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT). Investigación Fundamental no orientada.
Quantity: 130.680 €
Participants: ECOTOX-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
From: 01/01/2012 until: 31/12/2014
Principal Researcher: PhD. José A. Fernández Escribano
Participant as: Researcher.
1. Title: Selección de Indicadores, Determinación de Valores de Referencia, Diseño de Programas y Protocolos de Métodos y Medidas Para Estudios Ambientales en Acuicultura Marina (INDAQUA). [Selection of Indicators, Determination of Reference Values, Design of Programs and Protocols of Methods and Measures for Environmental Studies in Marine Aquaculture]
Reference: PNCM/IND/08
Funded by: Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca (Proy. JACUMAR)
Participants: CCAA de Galicia (USC, CIMA), Canarias (ICCM), Valencia (UA), Murcia (IMIDA), Cataluña (IRTA) y Andalucia (DAP y Junta de Andalucía).
Quantity: 1.081.680 €, for Galicia: 185.250 €.
Participants: ECOTOX-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
From: 2008 until: 2010
Principal Researcher Galicia: PhD Alejo Carballeira Ocaña
Participant as: Contracted and Researcher

Research projects with companies

3. Title: Biomonitorización ecotoxicológica de dos centrales térmicas de alta generación(Meirama FENOSA y As Pontes ENDESA) [Ecotoxicological biomonitoring of two high-generation thermal power plants].
Participants: APPLUS NORCONTROL SL; BIOVIA CONSULTOR AMBIENTAL S.L
From: 01/1/2014 to 31/12/2014
Principal Researcher: Alejo Carballeira Ocaña, Ana Isabel Rey Asensio
Participant as: Researcher
2. Title: Seguimiento del entorno de centrales térmicas, Índice de Pureza Atmosférica, campaña 2014. [Monitoring of the thermal power plant environment, Atmospheric Purity Index, 2014]
Participants: APPLUS NORCONTROL SL; BIOVIA CONSULTOR AMBIENTAL S.L.
From: 01/5/2014 to 31/11/2014
Principal Researcher: Alejo Carballeira Ocaña, Ana Isabel Rey Asensio
Participant as: Researcher
1. Title: Biomotorización de fluor en el entorno de ALCOA-EUROPE (S. Ciprián) campaña 2012. [Biomotorization of fluorine around ALCOA-EUROPE (S. Ciprián), 2012]
Participants: Aluminio Español S.A.-FEUGA
From: 13/6/2012 to 31/12/2012
Principal Researcher: Alejo Carballeira Ocaña
Participant as: Researcher