The TONGA post-cruise meeting took place in Villefranche sur mer on 30 June and 1 July. It brought together between 50 and 60 participants from 15 international laboratories, 50% face-to-face, 50% virtual.
Exciting results will be published in a SPECIAL ISSUE which will be open in mid 2022.
Our MIO colleagues, Thomas Changeux and Thomas Richard (EMBIO) are strongly involved in this project
During a visit to the museum, did you come across a work of art containing an aquatic animal? Share your discoveries online and contribute to the progress of this original study in historical ecology carried out by staff from the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO) and the laboratory Temps, Espaces, Langages, Europe méridionale, Méditerranée (TELEMMe)!
The City of Marseille has approved the renewal of the precarious occupation agreement of the Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie (MIO) which, through atmospheric fallout collectors installed on the island of Frioul, ensures a mission of observation of the terrestrial and marine environment.
Small in size - it occupies less than 1% of the world's maritime surface - the Mediterranean is subject to intense human activity.
To measure the impacts of this cohabitation, it is carefully monitored for chemical contamination, spearheaded by the Rhone-Mediterranean-Corsica Water Agency and Ifremer for the French coast.
In a book accessible to all, the collaborators of the OT-Med research consortium take stock of the issue of sustainable development of the Aix-Marseille metropolis. This book, which explores land, coastal and marine issues, as well as urban, social and management challenges, is set in a context of climate change.
This year, we are addressing the theme of "Sustainable Maritime and Coastal Developments: What Solutions for Tomorrow?" through the lens of economic recovery by considering the solutions of tomorrow.
High level sessions and round tables. Through round tables and sessions, experts, industrialists, local authorities and the State will share their French and European visions and the latest advances. We will imagine together the solutions of tomorrow thanks to innovation and recovery in an economic context of exit from the health crisis.
Sandrine Ruitton, lecturer at Aix-Marseille University assigned to the MIO, was interviewed by TF1 on July 3 in a report (from 8"07) about the proliferation of Rugulopteryx, a brown algae from Asia that has invaded the Calanques of Marseille and is proliferating on the sea floor. A danger for the fragile aquatic balances.
As a continuation of the Monaco Indian Ocean Exploration initiative, access to the South African oceanographic and supply vessel S.A. Agulhas II is offered between 1 October and 30 November 2022.
Please forward any interest to Thomas Changeux. Deadline: 15 September 2021
You will find the mission statement in the link
Our MIO colleague, Céline Rommevaux (MEB team) participated in the MoMARSAT 21 campaign on board the N.O. L'ATALANTE and the submersible NAUTILE from May 15 to June 21, 2021 (Toulon-Brest). This campaign has successfully maintained the EMSO-Açores underwater observatory, deployed since 2010 at the Lucky Strike hydrothermal site on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Azores. During this campaign, C. Rommevaux reinstalled during a Nautile dive, the CISICS microbial colonizer/fluid collector, at the level of the Eiffel Tower hot fluid outlet.
Off the coast of Marseille, Mélanie Ourgaud (CEM) is taking samples of plastic mixed with plankton in order to study its impact on the food chain, in fish, but also in humans. Brut followed her.
Biomagnification to observe the concentrations of micro-plastics
Mélanie Ourgaud is a scientist at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology in Marseille. She studies the impact of micro-plastic on the food chain. The objective of this study is to understand the increase in concentrations along the food chain. This is called biomagnification.
A real danger for humans
