Altamira: dos informes, muchas dudas

The Spanish newspaper El País, publishes today (24/10/2014) an article on the scientific debate on the re-opening of Altamira Cave. The article discloses the opinions based on twenty years of research work of the CSIC team lead by Sergio Sánchez Moral, Scientific Researcher of the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences and Cesáreo Sáiz Jiménez, […]

El debate sobre la posible reapertura de Altamira continúa en el New York Times

Last July 30th The New York Times published an article on the recent problematic of the cave, with the opinion of outstanding specialists in the field of rock art conservation, and among them the IRNAS Research Professor Cesáreo Sáiz Jimenez. The link to the complete article, here.

Las últimas dos décadas de investigación del IRNAS en la Cueva de Altamira puesta de relieve en el programa Crónicas (la 2, tve)

Last 19th June, 2014 the tv channel La 2 broadcasted the programme Crónicas, dedicated to Altamira, the importance of the original. The programme summarized the researches performed in the cave focused to the conservation of its palaeolithic paintings, with an important reference to the research carried out by the CSIC team, and among them several […]

La Cueva del Tesoro, protagonista del programa Espacio Protegido de Canal Sur

Last Sunday June 8th, a wide tv report on Cueva del Tesoro was broadcasted at “Protected Space”, a Canal Sur tv programme. The report enhances the research carried out at the cave by IRNAS research group “Environmental Microbiology and Cultural Heritage”. The programme also covers a short interview to the Research Professor Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez on […]

Una investigadora del IRNAS, conferenciante invitada a la 22nd International Karstological School “Classical karst”, dedicada en esta edición a Karst y Microorganismos

Dr. Ana Miller, postdoc Marie Curie researcher at “Environmental Microbiology and Cultural Heritage” research group will teach next 17th of June the conference “Secondary mineral deposits and associated microbe-mineral interactions in subsurface rock environments”. The International Karstological School “Classical Karst” is being organized since 1993, and constitutes a major appointment for the studies on the […]

eldiario.es se hace eco de las investigaciones del IRNAS en la Cueva del Tesoro

The digital newspaper eldiario.es publishes in its section la cuadratura del círculo an article disseminating some results reached by the research group “Environmental Microbiology and Cultural Heritage” at Cueva del Tesoro (El Rincón de la Victoria, Málaga).

The group is working in the cave from 2010, first in the framework of the research Project Microbial […]

La Fundación Cueva de Nerja y el IRNAS firman un contrato para la investigación de los organismos implicados en el biodeterioro de la cueva de Nerja

The Foundation Cueva de Nerja and the Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville (IRNAS) have signed a contract for the microbiological study of Nerja cave, focused to the research on the organisms implied in the biodeterioration, that will be performed along 2014. The scientific direction of the work will be assumed by Dr. […]