The Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUSs) provide valuable natural resources due to the high primary production, however anthropogenic forces could affect directly the basis of these ecosystems: the upwelling. Therefore, assessing the impacts of Global Warming on the upwelling processes is crucial for efficient ecosystem management. In spite of that, there is high uncertainty about the future of these upwelling systems under climate change. In 1990, Bakun suggested an increase in the intensity of upwelling due to an increase in the ocean-land pressure gradient.

The micronekton community of pelagic shrimps was studied by means of taxonomic composition, abundance and biomass analysis, across a latitudinal transect in the Atlantic Ocean from off Brazil coast (15ºS) to the south of Iceland (55ºN). Total abundance and biomass were sampled by Mesopelagos net with a mouth opening of 5 x 7 m and a total length of 58 m. Vertical variation of temperature, conductivity, pressure, dissolved oxygen and fluorescence were recorded by CTD profiler.

The project e-Impact aims at quantifying the contribution of sub-mesoscale processes associated with mesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies on the biological carbon pump in the Canary Eddy Corridor (North Atlantic Subtropical gyre). Mesoscale eddies are self-rotating coherent water bodies that can propagate long distances through the oceans, in many cases forming westward propagating eddy corridors.