Welcome!

Las Canteras beach in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Bengt Nyman).

Welcome to the Canteras Microbiome Project! A research project of marine microbial indicators of biological contamination in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. This project is made in association with Biological Oceanography in a Changing Ocean - IOCAG and their team from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Introduction to the data

The microbiome monitoring consists of 47 samples collected at 5 locations across Las Canteras and El Confital. The monitoring of environmental parameters including cytometry compromised a larger frame, with 8 locations (Figure 1). Microbiome monitoring spanned for 2 years, it began in July 2021 and ended in April 2023, with a sampling frequency of around 1 month. Environmental parameters began their sampling in April 2020, coinciding with lock down of economic activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Figure 2).

Figure 1: Sampling locations across El Confital and Las Canteras. Map by Nandi Montero

Figure 2: Sample collection across the monitoring program. Open squares represent samples of microbial compositional, crosses represent sampling of environmental parameters including cytometry.

Figure 3: Microbial samples divided in seasonal intervals.