Luis Somoza is presently a Research Professor in the Marine Geology Dv. of the Geological Survey of Spain (IGME). Doctoral Thesis at the Faculty of Geology, UCM (Madrid, 1989). From 1990-1994, he was an oceanographer at the Oceanographic Institute of Spain (IEO). From 1994-1996, he was Professor of Geodynamics at the University of Salamanca and University Autónoma of Madrid. He has been involved in up to 40 oceanographic surveys, eight expeditions of them to the Antarctica for the research of the plate geodynamics and oceanic basins of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea and Bransfield Ridge. He has been Scientific Chief of up to 12 oceanographic surveys onboard international research vessels as “Hespérides”, “Sarmiento de Gamboa” and “L´Atalante” (IFREMER).