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European Heritage Days - The Prado artificial reefs

  Saturday, September 16, 2023, Marseille Natural History Museum, Palais Longchamp     In 2008, the City of Marseille submerged 400 artificial reefs in Prado Bay. For the past 15 years, regular monitoring has been carried out to assess...
European Heritage Days - The Prado artificial reefs

MIO-IRD at the 8th Lumexplore Festival

From September 20 to 24, 2023, at the Cinéma Eden Théâtre, in La Ciotat, attend the 8th edition of the Lumexplore festival to (re)discover the fields of scientific exploration through films, photo exhibitions and meetings. The IRD, a...
MIO-IRD at the 8th Lumexplore Festival

Caroline Lory : Growing marine microalgae without nitrogen inputs

    What if a marine microalga considered a "superfood" could meet the challenges of climate change and malnutrition? Caroline Lory, an IRD post-doctoral researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO) in Marseilles and a...
Caroline Lory : Growing marine microalgae without nitrogen inputs

ERC Starting Grant 2023 – SIESTA Project

James Bradley, Research Fellow at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO)   The role of microbial dormancy as an ecological and biogeochemical regulator on Earth   Microbial life has proliferated throughout geological time,...
ERC Starting Grant 2023 – SIESTA Project

Congratulations to Fatima ABABOU (CYBELE) who defended her thesis on July 25, 2023

  Title : Role of diazotrophs in the biological carbon pump: study of aggregation, export and remineralization processes     Jury members Jury Sophie BONNET Aix-Marseille université Ilana BERMAN-FRANK Université de Haïfa, ISRAEL Camila...
Congratulations to Fatima ABABOU (CYBELE) who defended her thesis on July 25, 2023

PLASMA : "Microplastics in Mayotte's lagoon? Students investigate...

  To mark World Ocean Day, on Thursday June 8, from 10am to 3pm, researchers and students from Mayotte's 3rd and 2nd year high school classes will get together to present the results of work carried out as part of the PLASMA project: "...
PLASMA : "Microplastics in Mayotte's lagoon? Students investigate...

BIOCONTAM Summer School - June 5-9, 2023

The BIOCONTAM (Réseaux trophiques marins et mécanismes BIOlogiques de transfert des CONTAMinants) summer school ended today at the MIO (Campus de Luminy, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille and in videoconference (hybrid) with partner...
BIOCONTAM Summer School - June 5-9, 2023

World Oceans Day at the MIO

  On June 8, 2023, World Oceans Day, the MIO welcomed four classes from the City of Marseille (2 CM1, 1 CM2 and 4ème Environnement) to the Grand Amphithéâtre. The young students presented their work on the Prado reef.      
World Oceans Day at the MIO

Congratulations to Véronique LENOBLE-GARNIER (CEM), who defended her HDR on June 6, 2023.

Véronique Lenoble-Garnier (CEM) defended her HDR on June 6, 2023 on the theme "Anthropogenic impacts: contribution to the detection and monitoring of contaminants in ecosystems". Discipline: "Chemistry Specialty: "Environmental...
Congratulations to Véronique LENOBLE-GARNIER (CEM), who defended her HDR on June 6, 2023.

A CO₂ well in the South Pacific marine desert

  Six MIO colleagues (Sophie Bonnet, Elvira Pulido, Olivier Grosso, Sandra Nunige, Caroline Lory and Mercedes Camps) have just co-published an international study in the prestigious journal Science on a new mechanism for the natural iron...
A CO₂ well in the South Pacific marine desert