SR1801 Cruise
Campaign chief: James Holmes, researcher Scripps Institution of Oceanography-UCSD (USA)
Research vessel: RV Sally Ride (USA)
Objectives: Obtain vibrocore sediment samples along the central California Borderlands.
Task: Operator and analyst of the echo-sounders (bathymetry and high resolution sediment profiler) to evaluate the best locations on the selected areas to obtain the samples.
February 2018
SR1703 Cruise
Campaign chief: Mitch Lyle, professor at Oregon State University (USA)
Research vessel: RV Sally Ride (USA)
Objectives: Obtain different types of sediment samples along the central California Borderlands.
Task: Operator and analyst of the echo-sounders (bathymetry and high resolution sediment profiler) to evaluate the best locations on the selected areas to obtain the samples. Responsible of the shift.
February 2017
CHIANTI Cruise Leg 4
Campaign chief: Roger Urgelés, researcher of the ICM-CSIC (Spain)
Research vessel: RV Sarmiento de Gamboa (Spanish)
Objectives: Obtain high resolution single-channel seismic, high-resolution side scan sonar, bathymetry and sub-bottom parametric data, and sediment samples in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea.
Task: Operator of the echo-sounders (bathymetry and high resolution sediment profiler) and seismic data quality control. Responsible of the shift.
August 2015
SHAKE Cruise Leg 2 / IRIS Cruise
Campaign chief: Hector Perea and Claudio Lo Iacono, researchers of the NOC (United Kingdom)
Research vessel: RV Sarmiento de Gamboa (Spanish)
Objectives: Acquisition of ROV (MaxRover from HCMR, Greece) images, sediment samples and high-resolution sparker seismic profiles along active faults escarpments in the Alboran Sea (South Iberian Peninsula).
Task: Scientific co-chief of the cruise.
May 2015
SHAKE Cruise Leg 1
Campaign chief: Hector Perea and Rafael Bartolomé, researchers of the ICM-CSIC (Spain)
Research vessel: RV Sarmiento de Gamboa (Spanish)
Objectives: Acquisition of high-resolution bathymetry data and sub-bottom echosounder profiles with AUVs (AstrXand IdefX from IFREMER, France) and coring along active faults escarpments in the Alboran Sea (South Iberian Peninsula).
Task: Scientific co-chief of the cruise.
April-May 2015
TSUJAL Cruise
Campaign chief: Rafael Bartolomé, researcher of the ICM-CSIC (Spain)
Research vessel: RRS James Cook (United Kingdom)
Objectives: Obtain high resolution and penetration multi-channel seismic data and seismic refraction data in the Mexican Pacific Ocean
Task: Operator of the echo-sounders (bathymetry and high resolution sediment profiler) and part of the team that discussed the campaign seismic lines. Responsible of the shift.
February-March 2014
M86/5 Cruise
Campaign chief: Christian Hensen, researcher of the IFM-GEOMAR (Germany)
Research vessel: FS Meteor (German)
Objectives: Looking for cold-seeps using very high resolution images with AUV and seismic data and taking geochemistry samples for gas and fluid analysis in the Gulf of Cadis (South Iberian Peninsula).
Task: Operator of the Parasound sounder (high resolution sediment profiler), responsible of generating a kingdom suite project with the parasound profiles and part of the team that selected the coring sites.
February-March 2012
TOPOMED Cruise
Campaign chief: Eulàlia Gràcia and Rafael Bartolomé, researchers of the UTM-CSIC (Spain)
Research vessel: BIO Sarmiento de Gamboa (Spanish)
Objectives: Obtain high resolution and penetration multi-channel seismic data in the Alboran Sea (South Iberian Peninsula).
Task: Operator of the Parasound sounder (high resolution sediment profiler) and part of the team that discussed the campaign seismic lines. Responsible of the shift.
September-October 2011
EVENT-DEEP Cruise
Campaign chief: Rafael Bartolomé, researcher of the UTM-CSIC (Spain)
Research vessel: BIO Sarmiento de Gamboa (Spanish)
Objectives: Obtain high resolution multi-channel seismic data in the Alboran Sea and Gulf of Cadis (South Iberian Peninsula).
Task: Operator of the Parasound sounder (high resolution sediment profiler) and part of the team that discussed the campaign seismic lines. Responsible of the shift.
May-June 2010
EVENT-SHELF Cruise
Campaign chief: Rafael Bartolomé and Claudio Lo Iacono, researchers of the UTM-CSIC (Spain)
Research vessel: BIO García del Cid (Spanish)
Objectives: Obtain high resolution sparker seismic data in the Carboneras and Dalias fault zones (Alboran Sea, SE Spain) and in the Bajo Segura zone (western Mediterranean, SE Spain).
Task: Control the sparker seismic acquisition. Responsible of the shift.
September 2009
IMPULS Cruise
Campaign chief: Eulàlia Gràcia, researcher of the UTM-CSIC (Spain)
Research vessel: BIO Hespérides (Spanish)
Objectives: Obtain high resolution multichannel seismic data (Geometrix GeoEel), bathimetric data (Simrad EM120), very high resolution seismic data (TOPAS PS18) and gravity cores, in the Carboneras fault zone (Alboran Sea, SE Spain).
Task: Control the multichannel seismic acquisition.
May 2006
HITS Cruise
Campaign chief: Eulàlia Gràcia, researcher of the UTM-CSIC (Spain)
Research vessel: BIO Hespérides (Spanish)
Objectives: Obtain data with side scan sonar (TOBI), bathimetric data (EM1200) and very high resolution seismic data (BPS-TOPAS), in the zones of the Carboneras fault (Alboran Sea, SE Spain) and in the Marqués de Pombal fault (Atlantic Ocean, SW Portugal).
Task: Control and operate the TOPAS sounder (high resolution sediment profiler).
September 2001
High-resolution seismic reflection profiles
Objectives: Acquisition of high resolution seismic reflection profiles across different active fault in the Guadalentin depression, in the SE Iberian Peninsula.
Responsible: Hector Perea (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
April – May 2022
Paleoseismological trenching campaigns
Objectives: Obtain paleoseismological data from the opening of trenches in different geological environments and in different fault types, in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Mexico).
Responsible: Eulàlia Masana (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain), João Cabral (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) and Ramón Zuñiga and María Ortuño (Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico).
October 2000 – November 2013
Two field GPS campaigns
Objectives: Obtain GPS data in the Vale do Tejo and Algarve (Portugal).
Responsible: Virgilio Mendes, Antónia Pagarete and João Cabral (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal).
July 2007 and September 2011
Field geophysics campaign
Objectives: Obtain electrical resistivity data across the Vidigueira-Moura fault (Alentejo, Portugal).
Responsible: Fernando Santos and João Cabral (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal).
June 2007
Field geological cartography
Objectives: Map the Quaternary units to produce a geological map 1:25000 in the Tremp and Pobla de Segur basins (Pyrenees; Spain).
Responsible: Antòn Muñoz (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
June 2006 to March 2007
Two field geophysics campaigns
Objectives: Obtain magnetotelluric data in the western and central Pyrenees (Spain).
Responsible: Jaume Pous Fabregas, Pilar Queralt and Juan José Ledo, (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain).
August 1999 and September 2004