New article from the Journal La Marseillaise with an interview of our colleague Vincent Rossi - What future for the great warm currents of the oceans ?
Changes in the strength or course of these "titans" of the seas could have serious consequences for climate and biodiversity.
In its latest issue of July-September 2021, La Recherche Magazine reports on the results of the MISTRALS program with our colleague Daniela Banaru. Coordinated by the CNRS, Mistrals is a joint program between Ademe, CEA, Ifremer, Inrae, IRD and Météo-France.
Thierry Thibaut, Professor at Aix-Marseille University assigned to the MIO, was interviewed, this Monday, June 21, 2021, on France 3 on the appearance of an invasive brown alga in the Mediterranean and in particular in the Calanques in Marseille.
For the first time at such depths in the Mediterranean, a team of French, Monegasque and Italian scientists were able to analyze marine waste and microplastics at depths of up to 2,200 meters. The result: the deep sea is an area of significant accumulation of our waste, with a marked impact on wildlife. Scientists recommend increasing prevention efforts, as this pollution is impossible to eliminate in such inaccessible environments
Every summer, the divers of the Marseille Sports Loisirs Culture (MSLC) club organize their traditional dive in Callelongue, in order to clean the harbor from the waste accumulated during the year. Except that this year, they were surprised to see the bottom of the cove covered with an impressive green algae.
The new priority research program "Ocean and Climate" brings together the strengths of the French scientific community to better understand this ecosystem and better protect it. The research teams mobilized will have to meet seven major challenges related to the issues of sustainable development for the ocean.
Research is getting organized
The ocean is an ecosystem threatened by global warming, pollution, overexploitation of its resources and degradation of its habitats.
Collegial work of 48 authors, all recognized specialists, in which the Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie - MIO, the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, the Office français pour la Biodiversité, the Société Française d'Ichtyologie participated.
This Prize of Excellence is awarded every year for the third time by the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO) in memory of Cédric GARNIER, teacher-researcher at the University of Toulon, architect of the rapprochement between researchers from Toulon and Marseille and deputy director of the MIO, a specialist in environmental analytical chemistry, who died in 2018. Cédric GARNIER combined high scientific level, experimental rigor, generosity and great humanity.
Mar Benavides, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, mar.benavides@ird.fr
Sophie Bonnet, Meditarranean Institute of Oceanography, sophie.bonnet@univ-amu.fr
Maren Voss, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, maren.voss@io-warnemuende.de
Lasse Riemann, University of Copenhagen, lriemann@bio.ku.dk
The last Wednesday of each month at 7pm, citizen meetings around ecology and environment at the Marine Station of Endoume.
On Wednesday, June 30, 2021, follow live the conference of Delphine Thibault, Lecturer, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), Aix-Marseille University on the theme: "Gelition" of the oceans: Relationship between jellyfish and humans.
