The University of La Laguna discloses the LIFE Garachico project
Within the dissemination plans of the degrees of the University of La Laguna (ULL), the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication has been developing a dissemination plan on initiatives and research projects, in which researchers participate in Social Sciences. For this reason, on the 17th […]
Publication of audiovisual material of coastal phenomena in Garachico
In May 2022, the first workshop of the project took place, within the framework of the Canary Islands International Environmental Film Festival (FICMEC). In this activity, led by Elittoral, a video was projected to make attendees aware of the seriousness of maritime storms in coastal urban areas and their link with […]
Conama Innova: Innovation project for local sustainability
"We are urban societies, we have lost contact with the environment and we have to recover it," said Gustavo Pestana Pérez, Head of the Climate Change and Environmental Information Service of the Vice-Ministry for the Fight against Climate Change and Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, in the CONAMA Innova space activity held on November 22 […]
IHCantabria continues laboratory tests at its facilities
IHCantabria, partners of the LIFE Garachico project, continues laboratory tests in its wave channel. These tests allow reproducing the Garachico coastline in relation to different storm conditions, analyzing the behavior of the anti-impact banks. The following video shows the laboratory tests corresponding to the configuration […]
Current meter anchoring in Garachico
The company Elittoral, a member of the LIFE Garachico project consortium (LIFE20 CCA/ES/001641), anchored on January 7, 2023, an oceanographic instrument to measure the main characteristics of the waves present in the Garachico area for three months. The measuring instrument is a current meter, which will allow team members to obtain data […]
The test campaign is carried out in the wave channel of IHCantabria
Laboratory tests make it possible to reproduce on a reduced scale the real behavior of a coastline profile under different conditions of waves and sea level. In this sense, during the next months, the partners of IHCantabria, within the framework of the LIFE Garachico project, are carrying out a test campaign on their […]
The 'I Neighborhood Meeting' of the LIFE Garachico Project and the tour of the coast are held in Garachico
LIFE Garachico is a pioneer in including citizen participation in the process. For this reason, on Thursday, November 10, both the technicians and the technicians of the project, made a tour of Avenida Adolfo Suárez together with the neighbors who wanted to participate. In the afternoon of that same day, the 'I […]
The III Monitoring Meeting of the LIFE Garachico project takes place
Last Wednesday, November 9, the partners of the LIFE Garachico Project met in the municipality of Garachico in person and online to present all the actions carried out and coordinate the next objectives to be achieved. The project made up of a total of eleven partners, the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo Insular […]
IHCantabria presents the LIFE Garachico project to a Cuban delegation
Last Wednesday, November 16, the IHCantabria technicians presented the LIFE Garachico project to a delegation from Cuba. During said meeting, the objectives of the project and the methodologies developed for its achievement have been shown, as well as the state of progress and preliminary results for the pilot case of Garachico (Tenerife, […]
Hydrographic Survey in the framework of the LIFE Garachico Project
The company Elittoral, a member of the LIFE Garachico project consortium (LIFE20 CCA/ES/001641), has carried out a bathymetric survey in the Garachico area that will allow us to know in detail the depths of the most vulnerable areas. Bathymetry (the marine equivalent to altimetry on the earth's surface) allows us to obtain information not only on depth, […]
