On the occasion of World Ocean Day, the Musée Subaquatique de Marseille offers, from June 8 to 11, to discover bioluminescent art installations a few hundred meters from the beach of Catalans! A project of the artist-researcher Jeremie Brugidou, winner of the IMéRA grant - Institute of Advanced Studies of Aix-Marseille University and Nadia Merad Coliac realized in connection with Laurie Casalot (IRD) and Christian Tamburini (CNRS) scientists at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology -MIO.

An awareness day on access to biodiversity and benefit sharing will take place on Monday, June 23 at the Provence and Corsica delegation of the CNRS on the Joseph Aiguier campus.

The regional delegation of the CNRS organizes with the IRD and Aix-Marseille University an awareness day on access to biodiversity and benefit sharing on Monday, June 23, 2022.

The Nagoya Protocol regulates access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their use (ABS), with the aim of promoting the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

Presentation scheduled on Friday, May 13 at 1:00 pm in the amphitheatre and in videoconference

Olivier Pringault, Director of the Oceans Department, will present in a few minutes the department and the IRD tools that can be requested by MIO researchers (whatever their supervision) and leave the rest of the discussion for an exchange.

From April 25 to 27, the large wind-wave tunnel of Luminy (LASIF-IOA) hosted the team of the St3ART project (read 'Street Art'), which aims to measure the surface height by a combination of instruments (acoustic altimeter and micro-LIDAR). Wind tunnel measurements are used as a calibration bench for these instruments, which will then be installed (1) under a multitude of bridges in order to improve flood forecasting (vigicrues.gouv.fr plan), and (2) on ships, in order to pass under the track of altimeter satellites like Sentinel-3A and 3B.

A week of meeting and training in numerical hydrodynamic modeling with the ocean code CROCO (www.croco-ocean.org) is proposed from October 10 to 14, 2022 in Barcelonette, France. It will consist of theoretical courses and practical exercises during which students will be able to start building their own configuration on their area of interest. This training is open to students from the North and the South.
Number of places: 20
Cost: 300 euros from October 9 (evening) to 14 (evening), including food and accommodation

Eight events will cover a broad spectrum of disciplinary fields offered at the University, grouped around its identity axis Mediterranean Societies and Marine Sciences, and its three thematic clusters: Exchanges and Societies in the Mediterranean (ESMED), Sea, Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD) and Information, Digital, Prevention, Health (INPS). They will bring together speakers from all over France and abroad.

Our colleagues of the MIO participate in many of them.

The oceanographic campaign RESILIENCE (PIs. J.-F. Ternon, P. Penven) takes place in the Indian Ocean from April 19 to May 24, 2022. About fifty international scientists (French [MARBEC, ENTROPIE, LEMAR, LOCEAN, LOG, LOPS, MIO], South Africans, Mozambicans, English and Americans) will embark, from Reunion Island, on board of the ship "Marion Dufresne" to study the oceanic variability at small scale. The main objective is to sample the frontal zones at the edge of eddies in the Mozambique Channel. Among the many operations planned, MIO scientists will deploy a multi-instrument mooring (PI.

In order to adapt university training to the real needs of the players in the maritime field, the Ocean Sciences Institute, in collaboration with the Pôle Mer Méditerranée, is conducting an international survey in the various sectors linked to "blue growth", in order to obtain feedback on the knowledge and skills in the field of marine and ocean sciences that we will need in the future.

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On land or in the oceans, many living organisms emit their own light to communicate, protect themselves or feed themselves. This is called bioluminescence. Laurie Casalot (IRD), Christian Tamburini (CNRS) and Séverine Martini (CNRS), scientists at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology, have developed a kit to produce a natural source of light energy thanks to a marine bacterium. A solution of tomorrow, supported by the IRD's South-East regional delegation, to be discovered in a few clicks.

A conference A la découverte du milieu profond avec BathyBot, le robot sous-marin du CNRS will take place on Friday April 8, 2022 at 2:30 pm at the Théâtre couvert Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale.

Speaker : Fanny Karatchodjoukova, communication officer of the Bathybot cruise project