An MoU between the M I O-AMU and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (S I O), University of California has just been signed by American officials (Margareth Lehnen), Yvon Berland and Richard Sempéré.
This agreement, like those signed with other IOCAS institutes, Quingdao China and the University of Texas, should strengthen existing collaborations and develop our student/researcher exchanges and assist in future project development.
 

Article from the CNRS/INSU website published on July 15, 2019

Frédéric Diaz*1, Daniela Bănaru*1, Philippe Verley2, Yunne-Jai Shin3

1Aix Marseille Univ., Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM110, 13288, Marseille, France.

2IRD, UMR 123 AMAP, TA40 PS2, Boulevard de la Lironde, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.

3IRD, UMR 248 MARBEC, Université de Montpellier, Bat. 24 – CC 093 Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France.

This wave tracking platform was developed ten years ago to study turbulent flows at the air-sea interface, in collaboration with LATMOS, LOCEAN, Ifremer, Météo-France, LOPS, IRPHE, DT-INSU, and LOG. Two prototypes exist and have been deployed in various regions since 2011. The measurements obtained, mainly under wave conditions, provide a new perspective compared to measurements taken on oceanographic vessels.

At the invitation of Mr. Michel Vialay, President, Ms. Laurianne Rossi and Ms. Claire Pitollat, co-rapporteurs of the Joint Fact-Finding Mission on Endocrine Disrupters in Plastic Containers, Richard Sempéré accompanied by Javier Castro Jimenez and Melanie Ourgaud were heard on July 2 at the National Assembly in Palais Bourbon. This meeting will follow up on a report from the parliamentary committee
 

Thirty-eight students from South Africa, Namibia and Norway boarded the SA Agulhas II icebreaker in Cape Town for the fourth edition of the

The drifters released during the Peacetime oceanographic cruise contributed to the MedSVP (Mediterranean Surface Velocity Program). The analysis of this precious dataset has provided new insights about the circulation in the Sicily Channel and Southern Tyrrhenian Sea (Menna et al, 2019).

On Monday 1 July at 11 a.m. in the Aegean Hall, Patrick Louchouarn, Vice-President of the University of Texas at Galveston, will sign a cooperation agreement with the M.I.O/AMU in the presence of Pierre Chiappeta, Vice-President Research of AMU, Amira Khellaf of the AMU Research and Development Department and persons from AMU's International Relations Department (JC Guillemot ,S Delmercato)

Her thesis subject which she defended last December was as follows:       

"Study of the influence of mesoscale (sub)mesoscale circulation on the spatial distribution of biogeochemical and biological elements using in situ and coupled physical-biogeochemical satellite measurements"

Managers: Andrea Doglioli and Anne Petrenko

On the following subject: :

Impacts of multiple contamination of trace metal elements on the microbial communities in a highly anthropized coastal environment: the Toulon bay