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HOT Hg Cruise

The HOT Hg cruise took place from May 15 to 29, 2023, two wonderfully exhausting weeks on the island of Panarea to study natural mercury emissions, their impact on microbiology and bioaccumulation in the food web of five shallow...

BioSWOT-Med cruise : A successful campaign under SWOT swath in the NW Mediterranean Sea

The BioSWOT-Med campaign ended on Sunday 14th May after four weeks of navigation sampling an area characterized by a persistent front between modified Atlantic waters of different ages about 100 km north-est of Menorca Island (Spain)...

BioSWOT-Med cruise : A successful campaign under SWOT swath in the NW Mediterranean Sea

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Cédric Cotté

How fine scales structure the distribution of top predators Cédric Cotté is in charge of monitoring marine top predators during the BioSWOT-Med campaign. Here he explains how mesoscale features structure the foraging of marine top...

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Cédric Cotté

The new wave of oceanographers: Emily Wagonnier

Emily Wagonnier is a 3rd year PhD candidate in biological oceanography in Solange Duhamel's lab at the University of Arizona, Molecular and Cellular Biology Department. She is interested in understanding the different forms of...

The new wave of oceanographers: Emily Wagonnier

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Laure Chirurgien

Measuring oxygen and community production Laure Chirurgien is in charge of measuring oxygen dissolved in seawater and community production. Here she describes the different instruments she uses, some of which especially developed at MIO...

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Laure Chirurgien

BathyBot : awakening of a robot in the depths of the Mediterranean

BathyBot is the first deep-sea robot in Europe to be permanently installed at a depth of more than 2400 meters. It has just begun its mission in the Mediterranean Sea and has revealed the first images of its environment. Accompanied by...

BathyBot : awakening of a robot in the depths of the Mediterranean

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Sandra Nunige

Measuring nutrients Sandra Nunige is an expert in nutrient salt measurements. Here she describes the different analyses she will carry out during the BioSWOT-Med cruise. Sandra Nunige. THE INSTRUMENTS OF OCEANOGRAPHERS: Sandra...

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Sandra Nunige

APERO Campaign: Understanding how the ocean stores carbon

From June 2 to July 17, 2023, in the Northeast Atlantic, the oceanographic campaign Apero will take place, co-directed by CNRS researchers (LEMAR, MIO, LOV). This campaign aims to study the "biological carbon pump", a phenomenon through...

APERO Campaign: Understanding how the ocean stores carbon

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Véronique Cornet

How to study phytoplankton diversity? Véronique Cornet is an expert of microphytoplankton and its role in the biological carbon pump. Here she explains what phytoplankton are, how to collect them at sea, and how to analyze their...

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Véronique Cornet

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Alice della Penna

The exclusion experiment to measure zooplankton grazing During BioSWOT-Med Alice della Penna is in charge of study zooplankton grazing. She explains what it is, why it is important to measure it and she describe a new “exclusion...

BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Alice della Penna