The Franco-American SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite is scheduled for launch on Friday, December 16, 2022 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 12:46 p.m. CET (3:46 a.m. Pacific Standard Time).
Corals, sponges, algae and sea grass beds constitute our underwater littoral landscapes where organisms fixed to the substrate or sedentary in their adult state (mollusks, crustaceans and coastal fish) cohabit. During their first stage of life, the majority of these marine species disperse. In the form of propagules (eggs, larvae, seeds, etc.), they are transported by ocean currents over great distances.
The ocean is a carbon sink, with major implications for climate change. Among the phenomena involved in this sequestration of CO2 by the ocean, the plant plankton (or phytoplankton) absorbs CO2 by photosynthesis, manufactures organic matter consisting of carbon, which is transferred along the marine food chain. When the organisms die, some of this carbonaceous material sediments on the ocean floor, thus removing CO2 from the atmosphere. This is called the biological carbon pump in scientific terms.
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The next conference of the Mercredis d'Endoume organized by the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology (IMBE), will be on the theme "Marine bioluminescence". It will be presented by Séverine Martini, CNRS researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), and will take place on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 7 pm at the marine station of Endoume in Marseille and on IMBE TV.
The MIO organized at the Endoume Marine Station the CNRS Thematic School "CYTOEXPERT 2022
The MIO is organizing on Friday, November 18, a half-day welcome for newcomers, PhD students, post-docs, and fixed-term contracts.
From 11:00 am, a presentation of the laboratory, of its functioning and of the "resource" personnel who will facilitate your integration will take place in the OCEANOMED Amphitheater.
You are cordially invited to the pizza party that will close this mutual exchange of information at noon.
Very cordially
Valérie Michotey
Many researchers, engineers and students of the laboratory participated in the MOOSE "Grande Echelle" campaign held on the NO Why not? from September 6 to October 1, 2022: Anthony Bosse (leg 2 mission leader), Thibaut Wagener, François Carlotti, Karine Leblanc, Sandra Nunige, Léa Guyomarc'h, Nicole Garcia, Morgane Didry, Magali Lescot, as well as several students and PhD students: Élisabeth Chevillon, Thibaut Antoine, Florian Haitz, Cristhian Asto and Théo Garcia.
Cristèle Chevalier represented the MIO
More than 30 people from 12 marine stations participated in this event organized by members of the SOMLIT station in Marseille (N. Garcia, G. Grégori, M. Lafont, V. Lagadec, S. Nunige, P. Raimbault) from October 18 to 20, 2022 in the OCEANOMED building. The intercomparison consists of a series of exercises carried out annually for all hydrological variables measured by the SNO SOMLIT requiring a sampling step (all parameters of the hydrological and pico-nanoplankton series except temperature and salinity).
Big thanks to everyone for making our ANR HOT_Hg Kick-off meeting last week a success. We had in tense day of presentation and discussions, followed by 3 days training of sampling and analysis.
We will be studying deep hydrothermal vents at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (A), East Pacific Rise & Tonga Back Arc (B), and the South West Indian Ocean Ridge (C).
