Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography

Documentary - Oases in the ocean

The documentary 𝑫𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒍'𝒐𝒄𝒆́𝒂𝒏 will be broadcast on Ushuaïa TV from Saturday 25 October 2025 at 20:50 (Paris time). It will also be broadcast e𝒏 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕-𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆̀𝒓𝒆 [...]

Mission glider PataSWOT

Recovery of the glider. R/V Falkor(too) is visible. Photo credit: Christine Laquet

The 22nd of October, the glider used in the framework of the PataSWOT project was successfully recovered.the glider covered 400 km in 15 days and achieved 1023 profiles between the [...]

Federico Fabbri will defend his thesis on Tuesday 4 November 2025 at 14:00 at the ALLSH Campus, Multimedia Building.

On the theme: Potential and feasibility of maritime spatial planning off the coast of a major city. An exploratory approach in Marseille, in a Mediterranean context.

Congratulations to Nicolas Garcia Seyda, PhD, MIO, IRD, winner of the Breakthrough Innovation Prize for his project SWIM2CORAL, a natural and innovative solution for the protection of corals, at the [...].

Final Report - Southeast Asia Environmental Systems 2nd regional workshop

The Southeast Asia Environmental Systems Workshop (SEAES2025) was held at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 17 to 20. The final report of the SEAES2025 workshop is available: [...]

MIO Seminar - Morten Iversen - Thursday 16 October 2025

Professor Morten Iversen, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research & MARUM - Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, will be giving a seminar on 16 [...].

The MIO is deploying a glider in the south-west Atlantic to study the small-scale dynamics of the Patagonian continental shelf.

The PATASWOT project of the IFAECI (Instituto Franco-Argentino para el Estudio del Clima y sus Impactos) is collaborating with the MIO to sample the outer part of the Patagonian continental shelf in the Atlantic [...].