El Quarry Life Award es una competición científica y educativa, se lleva a cabo cada tres años, y simultáneamente a nivel nacional e internacional. Su objetivo es crear conciencia sobre el valor ecológico de las actividades extractivas, y compartir nuevas mejores prácticas.
Actualmente, se llevan a cabo proyectos de biodiversidad en nuestras canteras alrededor del mundo.
En 2022 otorgaremos premios internacionales de hasta 30.000 €.
10 Jun 2022
The national and international jury members visit our quarrying sites and learn more about the QLA projects from the participants.
16 Feb 2022
For the fifth edition of the Quarry Life Award, five International Jury members have been nominated to assess the projects for International Awards. They will work simultaneously with the national juries, but focusing on different evaluation criteria.
02 Feb 2022
The participants will update you with their blogs about the research conducted in our quarries.
One of the ways of knowing whether climate change is already affecting the biodiversity of an area is by studying time series of climatic variables. This post analyses the time series of photosynthetic activity from 2001 to 2021. One way to observe photosynthetic activity is by calculating a spectral index of satellite measurements. The NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) has been used as it is the most common index in these cases.
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The two 2 models of climate change scenarios analizad are RCP8.5, and RCP4.5. The data of these scenarios for the Basque Country are available in GeoEuskadi. The behavior of these models has been studied for temperature, precipitation and number of days of extreme heat up to the year 2100
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Another species that we can find in our quarry is the Webbed newt!
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Dispersal of animals, specifically amphibians, has been affected by human land use. Quarries may play an important role as connection points between different populations.
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