The campaign JULIO 2026 (Principal Investigators: A. Petrenko and JL Fuda) took place successfully on 27 and 28 May 2026 the last to board the Antédon II.
Greeted by a pod of dolphins as soon as we left the port of Pointe-Rouge on the first day, the mission got off to a very promising start: the mooring was retrieved, data was downloaded, the Argos beacon and the release mechanism were working properly, and the new mooring was deployed.
The current meter data at JULIO (the MOOSE mooring) have been used in recent years to characterise the intrusion of the North Current into Marseille harbour, to study the long-term trend in vertical velocities and their link to coastal upwelling and downwelling processes, the development of AI algorithms for intrusions and studies of fine-scale coastal processes in conjunction with SWOT data.
We would like to extend our special thanks to SAM, the crew of the Antédon, as well as Kévin Robache (HOPE-VV postdoctoral researcher), Nicolas Barrate and Sasha-Ly Sok (B. Néel’s research students) for their invaluable assistance, and to Dominique Lefèvre for donating the ballast weights.
Research team, from left to right: Jean-Luc Fuda, Anne Petrenko, Nicolas Barrate, Sasha-Ly Sok, Stéphanie Barrillon and Kévin Robache.