The parents of the PhD student of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) María Casanova Masjoan, who died in a diving accident last October, traveled this Saturday, June 19, to the capital of Gran Canaria to know the he scores placed by the Municipal Sports Institute in his honor on the slopes of the beach of The pits.
Deportes paid tribute to María Casanova, who in addition to being a student at the ULPGC was a member of the CD Speed Badminton Canarias, and placed a plaque last May on a Crossminton track in Las Canteras that now bears her name.
María’s parents, José Casanova and María Masjoan, could not approach on that occasion and have come to know that track with the name of their daughter. They were accompanied by the Rector, Lluís Serra Majem, by his colleagues from the IOCAG, the University Institute of Oceanography and Global Change, where he was doing his doctorate, tutored by the Director of the Institute Alonso Hernández Guerra, as well as his colleagues from the Badminton club.
Born in Tortosa on July 10, 1992, María Casanova Masjoan moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2011 to begin her studies in Marine Sciences at the ULPGC, making this city her residence and home ever since.
Before the fateful accident, Casanova was doing her PhD on ocean currents in the Physical Oceanography area of the Institute of Oceanography and Global Change (Iocag), studies that were nearing completion. He had managed to publish in a journal of international relevance two research papers referring to the Canary current and other currents in Iceland.
María Casanova Masjoan participated in various investigations on climate change. A student of Marine Sciences from the ULPGC, he decided to continue his career on the island, where he was doing a doctorate in Oceanography, the latter subject for which he received an award of excellence in the master’s degree from that university.
“To say that María Casanova Masjoan was in love with the sea is probably an understatement. His life was the sea. Graduated in Marine Sciences from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, she decided to settle on the island to grow as a scientist and despite her young age, 28 years old, this woman from Castellón had already published several investigations in specialized media. Passionate about scuba diving, the researcher died when she discovered one of the wrecks in the port of La Luz ”, point out her colleagues at Iocag.
His passion for the sea and for research was reflected in his studies. He received the Extraordinary Prize in the Master of Oceanography from the University of Cádiz, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and University of Vigo in 2016. It was one more step in a more than established academic career, which he was currently expanding with a doctorate.
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