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Conference | Discovering the deep environment with BathyBot, the CNRS underwater robot

A conference A la découverte du milieu profond avec BathyBot, le robot sous-marin du CNRS will take place on Friday April 8, 2022 at 2:30 pm at the Théâtre couvert Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale. Speaker : Fanny Karatchodjoukova...

Conference | Discovering the deep environment with BathyBot, the CNRS underwater robot

Our activities on the Black Carbon in Vietnam

Fine particle air pollution is a global issue. It is the main health risk and the main cause of non-communicable diseases, the second contributor to global warming (just after CO2), and with quantities of fine particles reaching the...

Our activities on the Black Carbon in Vietnam

Vases Mobiles – Pétrole Project (L. Sylvi, M. Fiard, C. Militon & P. Cuny

As part of their work to improve knowledge of the behaviour of oil spilt at sea in tropical regions, Cedre (Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution) and MIO conducted an experiment in French...

Vases Mobiles – Pétrole Project (L. Sylvi, M. Fiard, C. Militon & P. Cuny

Mar Benavides, IRD research fellow, assigned to MIO-CYBELE, will submit her HDR on May 5, 2022

On the following topic: "Ocean N2 fixation across spatiotemporal scales" Members of the Jury Tutor France Van Wambeke (HDR, DR CNRS at MIO) Rapporteurs Ingrid Obernosterer (HDR, DR CNRS at LOMIC) Claire Mahaffey (Professor at the...

Mar Benavides, IRD research fellow, assigned to MIO-CYBELE, will submit her HDR on May 5, 2022

Sophie Bonnet (MIO-CYBELE), winner of the ERC Consolidator Grant 2021

Sophie Bonnet, IRD research director at MIO, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for her 2.5 million euro HOPE project. This project aims to study the capacity of our tropical oceans to sequester CO2 via diazotrophs, microorganisms...

Sophie Bonnet (MIO-CYBELE), winner of the ERC Consolidator Grant 2021

SOKOWASA, an oceanographic campaign to study the marine ecosystems south of the Fiji Islands, using the SeaExplorer submarine glider

A team of 6 scientists - French, American, and Fijian - will embark on R/V Alis, an offshore vessel of the French Oceanographic Fleet, from March 19 to April 7, 2022. This 20-day campaign aims to study the health of marine ecosystems in...

SOKOWASA, an oceanographic campaign to study the marine ecosystems south of the Fiji Islands, using the SeaExplorer submarine glider

The marine protected area of Port-Cros, a too small jewel of biodiversity: an interview on France Info with Charles-François Boudouresque, professor emeritus at the MIO and member of the scientific council of the Port-Cros National Park

At the close of the One Ocean Summit, this Friday, February 11 in Brest, Emmanuel Macron announced the extension of the French Southern Territories nature reserve, which will become the second largest marine protected area in the world. In...

The marine protected area of Port-Cros, a too small jewel of biodiversity: an interview on France Info with Charles-François Boudouresque, professor emeritus at the MIO and member of the scientific council of the Port-Cros National Park

Mission at sea of the students of the master Sciences of the sea

As every year at this time, the first year students of the Master of Marine Sciences carried out missions at sea as part of their curriculum, on a boat of the French oceanographic fleet (operated by IFREMER), from February 18 to 25 (...

Mission at sea of the students of the master Sciences of the sea

Christopher Burot (CEM/MEB) will present his thesis in person and by videoconference on : Friday, March 18, 2022 at 9:30 am (Oceanomed Amphitheater)

On the following topic: "Study of the degradation of ice algae and open water phytoplankton in the Arctic zone: impact of the stress state of the bacteria associated with this material on its preservation and contribution to sediments" ...

Christopher Burot (CEM/MEB) will present his thesis in person and by videoconference on : Friday, March 18, 2022 at 9:30 am (Oceanomed Amphitheater)

Congratulations to Terence Legrand (OPLC) who defended his thesis on Monday March 21, 2022

On the following topic: "Influence of multiscale connectivity via larval dispersal on population structure and biodiversity patterns in the Mediterranean Sea" Under the supervision of Anne Chenuil, Research Director and Vincent Rossi,...

Congratulations to Terence Legrand (OPLC) who defended his thesis on Monday March 21, 2022