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Lea Cabrol correspondent of the IRD and MNHM in Chile

Léa Cabrol has been appointed correspondent to represent IRD in Chile. It also represents the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). Researcher in microbial ecology at the MIO, she is specialized in the functional role of microbial...

Lea Cabrol correspondent of the IRD and MNHM in Chile

Congratulations to Chia-Ting CHEN (EMBIO team) who defended her thesis on Monday, November 25, 2019

On the following subject: "Feeding planktonophagous fish from the Marseille region (northwestern Western Mediterranean)" All MIO staff warmly congratulate her Executive Summary Feeding planktonophagous fish in the Marseille region (...

Congratulations to Chia-Ting CHEN (EMBIO team) who defended her thesis on Monday, November 25, 2019

Congratulations to David Nerini (EMBIO Team) who supported his HDR on November 22, 2019

It was in front of a well-filled amphitheatre that David brilliantly presented his HDR on the following subject: "Contributions for data processing in oceanography: methodological developments and applications in functional data analysis...

Congratulations to David Nerini (EMBIO Team) who supported his HDR on November 22, 2019

Mediterranean Project A*Midex: Start of Didier Aurelle's (MIO) HoloDiv collaboration project with Algeria and Turkey

Mr. Didier AURELLE's HOLODIV project, approved by the A*Midex Foundation as part of the "Mediterranean 2018" call, began its activities in September 2019. This project strengthens Aix-Marseille's cooperation with the University of...

Mediterranean Project A*Midex: Start of Didier Aurelle's (MIO) HoloDiv collaboration project with Algeria and Turkey

The MIO wishes Jean Blanchot, IRD researcher of the EMBIO team, an excellent retirement

It is in a friendly atmosphere that the MIO staff came in large numbers to wish Jean Blanchot an excellent retirement. Richard Sempéré first retraced Jean's career and career as a researcher at ORSTOM and then at IRD, then Jean recounted...

The MIO wishes Jean Blanchot, IRD researcher of the EMBIO team, an excellent retirement

TONGA: the first days aboard the Atalante!

IRD in the South Pacific - First video feedback from Sophie Bonnet, oceanographer at the MIO, pilot of the TONGA mission aboard the Atalante on its way to the arc of Tonga to study the effects of underwater volcanoes on surface waters. To...

TONGA: the first days aboard the Atalante!

The nature of the exported iron plays a major role in its ocean cycle

For the first time, an international team, including our MIO colleague Thibaut Wagener, made in situ observations of bacterial iron regeneration in the mesopelagic zone - the "black" ocean where light does not penetrate - of the Southern...

The nature of the exported iron plays a major role in its ocean cycle

Workshop SOOT-SEA University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, 21-22 October 2019

The MIO organized an international workshop at the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH) on 21-22 October 2019, gathering 35 researchers from South East Asia and France. The aim of this workshop was to develop a project of a...

Workshop SOOT-SEA University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, 21-22 October 2019

The Tonga campaign: let's go!

An international team of 29 researchers and engineers will travel the Pacific Ocean between Nouméa and the Tonga Volcanic Arc from 1 November to 5 December 2019 aboard the oceanographic vessel L'Atalante. This campaign, called TONGA...

The Tonga campaign: let's go!

Pollution of the water cycle by plastic: Yann Ourmières, MIO teacher-researcher (OPLC) participates in a scientific mission

On September 21, 2019, Yann Ourmières, professor and researcher at the University of Toulon, boarded the NGO Expedition 7th Continent's schooner for a one-month mission in the Mediterranean. The mission aims to measure the presence of...

Pollution of the water cycle by plastic: Yann Ourmières, MIO teacher-researcher (OPLC) participates in a scientific mission