The HADES group's main lines of research are the identification, distribution and characterization, through their structure and functions, of benthic habitats. The research lines respond to European directives such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the Habitats Directive (HD) and the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSPD), collecting and analyzing the scientific information necessary for monitoring the environmental status of benthic habitats to evaluate their conservation status. Its scope of work is the infralittoral, circalittoral and bathyal zones (0-4000 m).

The VULCANA research group focuses on studying the effects of volcanic processes on the marine environment of the Canary Islands, such as submarine volcanism, hydrothermal emissions, and lava inputs into the sea. It assesses their impacts on physical, chemical, and biological properties, as well as the associated geological, petrological, and geochemical processes. It highlights the long-term monitoring of the submarine volcano Tagoro in El Hierro, active since 2011, and involvement in the eruption of La Palma in 2021.

BEME is an interdisciplinary group formed by IEO researchers in Gijón/Xixón and the Balearic Islands. It focuses on the study of plankton, micronecton and benthos, with the common goal of understanding and quantifying the role of the diversity of organisms in the functioning of marine ecosystems. In the field of plankton and micronekton, the studies focus on the understanding of their long-term variations (time series), their ecology and diversity, the definition of their role in biogeochemical cycles and in the dynamics of food webs, and the modeling of their ecology and evolution.

The research group comprises scientists and technicians who develop their activity in all the world's oceans where the Spanish tuna fleet operates. The group's objective is to tuna fishing resources and the pelagic aquatic ecosystem as a Whole conservation. This involves the study of the biology and ecology of all the species impacted by these fisheries.

The research group aims to generate solid scientific knowledge about the biodiversity and conservation status of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) in the High Seas, including the analysis of overlaps, interactions, and impacts resulting from bottom fisheries and other human activities. Additionally, the goal is to integrate this knowledge into the advisory processes of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) and other relevant national and international bodies, in order to promote sustainable and evidence-based management.

This group adopts a multidisciplinary research approach, drawing upon social and political philosophy, with the objective of formulating a theoretical framework of justice that encompasses and interconnects various dimensions, including: (1) spatial dimensions, such as global justice, migratory patterns, environmental concerns, urban dynamics and post-national citizenship; (2) temporal dimensions, including memory, history, and the role of narrative in shaping identity; (3) gender dimensions, encompassing human rights, feminisms, and inter-ethnic relations; and (4) cultural diversity dimension

The group aims to investigate the behaviour and make a prospective assessment of agri-food systems from a territorial development approach, based on the wide range of spatially differentiated responses with different historical trajectories.The context of analysis in which the group situates itself is the new functionality that agri-food systems and territorial development processes (rural and urban) have at the global and local levels, from economic, productive, social and environmental perspectives.

The research group has been studying dispersal patterns of mosses and angiosperms over the last decade. In the current research period, the group is devoted to reconstruction of colonization processes and further evolution of species on oceanic islands based on floristic, taxonomic, chorological, phylogeographic, phylogenetic and population genetic analyses. A three-scale approach is proposed to be undertaken for the inference of the colonization history of plants in any oceanic archipelagos.

It has available a well equipped laboratory of 80m2. Enjoy a 2013-2015 National Plan Project and Project Explora (2012-2013) as IP, and is Participant in a Project Excellence Andalucía.IP Jordi Gómez is also IP of a group of CIBER liver and digestive diseases. A postdoctral and two predoctral memebers are currently beign founded. The group has regular contacts and exchange of samples with clinical researchers memebers in the area of viral hepatitis from several Hospitals (vall d’Hebron, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, etc..) and a group of tropical virus in the INIA.