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Impact of ashes from the 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption on satellite ocean color signatures

Andra Whiteside, Cecile Dupouy, Awnesh Singh Philipson Bani, Jing Tan and Robert Frouin A powerful eruption within the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) volcano (20.64°S, 175.19°W) in the Kingdom of Tonga, occurred on 15 January 2022. The...
Impact of ashes from the 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption on satellite ocean color signatures

On December 16, 2022, follow the SWOT satellite launch live !

  The Franco-American SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite is scheduled for launch on Friday, December 16, 2022 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 12:46 p.m. CET (3:46 a.m. Pacific Standard Time). This...
On December 16, 2022, follow the SWOT satellite launch live !

Ocean circulation allows us to reconstruct the family tree of marine populations

Corals, sponges, algae and sea grass beds constitute our underwater littoral landscapes where organisms fixed to the substrate or sedentary in their adult state (mollusks, crustaceans and coastal fish) cohabit. During their first stage of...
Ocean circulation allows us to reconstruct the family tree of marine populations

What if the tropical oceans are trapping more CO₂ than expected?

The ocean is a carbon sink, with major implications for climate change. Among the phenomena involved in this sequestration of CO2 by the ocean, the plant plankton (or phytoplankton) absorbs CO2 by photosynthesis, manufactures organic...
What if the tropical oceans are trapping more CO₂ than expected?

Marine bioluminescence

The next conference of the Mercredis d'Endoume organized by the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology (IMBE), will be on the theme "Marine bioluminescence". It will be presented by Séverine Martini,...
Marine bioluminescence

Thematic School CYTOEXPERT2022

The MIO organized at the Endoume Marine Station the CNRS Thematic School "CYTOEXPERT 2022 Thanks to the support of CNRS, IR ILICO, lRP "DYF2M" (CNRS) and the PRECYM platform of the MIO, the MIO was able to organize from October 4 to 7 at...
Thematic School CYTOEXPERT2022

Newcomers, PhD students, post-docs, CDD - November 18, 2022

The MIO is organizing on Friday, November 18, a half-day welcome for newcomers, PhD students, post-docs, and fixed-term contracts. From 11:00 am, a presentation of the laboratory, of its functioning and of the "resource" personnel who...
Newcomers, PhD students, post-docs, CDD - November 18, 2022

Feedback from MIO participants in the MOOSE-GE 2022 campaign

Many researchers, engineers and students of the laboratory participated in the MOOSE "Grande Echelle" campaign held on the NO Why not? from September 6 to October 1, 2022: Anthony Bosse (leg 2 mission leader), Thibaut Wagener, François...
Feedback from MIO participants in the MOOSE-GE 2022 campaign

Summit on climate change and research 2022 from October 23 to 25 in Djibouti

Cristèle Chevalier represented the MIO    
Summit on climate change and research 2022 from October 23 to 25 in Djibouti

The MIO hosted this year the SNO SOMLIT intercomparison week

More than 30 people from 12 marine stations participated in this event organized by members of the SOMLIT station in Marseille (N. Garcia, G. Grégori, M. Lafont, V. Lagadec, S. Nunige, P. Raimbault) from October 18 to 20, 2022 in the...
The MIO hosted this year the SNO SOMLIT intercomparison week