BIOCONTAM Summer School - 5-9 June 2023

The BIOCONTAM (Réseaux trophiques marins et mécanismes BIOlogiques de transfert des CONTAMinants) summer school ended today at the MIO (Campus de Luminy, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille and by videoconference (hybrid) [...]
World Oceans Day at the MIO

On 8 June 2023, World Oceans Day, the MIO welcomed four classes from Marseille (2 CM1, 1 CM2 and 4ème Environnement) to the Grand Amphithéâtre. The [...]
Congratulations to Véronique Lenoble-Garnier (CEM), who defended her HDR on 6 June 2023.

Véronique Lenoble-Garnier (CEM) defended her HDR on 6 June 2023 on the theme "Anthropogenic impacts: a contribution to the detection and monitoring of contaminants in ecosystems [...].
A CO₂ sink in the South Pacific marine desert

Six colleagues from the MIO (Sophie Bonnet, Elvira Pulido, Olivier Grosso, Sandra Nunige, Caroline Lory and Mercedes Camps) have just co-published an international study in the prestigious journal Science [...].
HOT Hg campaign

The HOT Hg campaign took place from 15 to 29 May 2023, two wonderfully exhausting weeks on the island of Panarea to study natural mercury emissions, their impact [...].
BioSWOT-Med campaign: A successful campaign!

The BioSWOT-Med campaign came to an end on Sunday 14 May after four weeks of sailing in a zone characterised by a persistent front between modified Atlantic waters of different ages at [...].
BioSWOT-Med campaign: Interview with Cédric Cotté

How fine scales structure the distribution of large predators Cédric Cotté is in charge of monitoring large marine predators as part of the BioSWOT-Med campaign. Here he explains [...]
BathyBot: a robot wakes up in the depths of the Mediterranean

BathyBot est le premier robot profond en Europe installé de façon permanente, à plus de 2400 mètres de profondeur.Il vient de débuter sa mission en mer Méditerranée et de dévoiler […]
The new wave of oceanographers: Emily Wagonnier

Emily Wagonnier is a third-year PhD student in biological oceanography working on understanding the different forms of phosphorus that can be used by phytoplankton in Solange Duhamel's laboratory at [...].
BioSWOT-Med campaign: Interview with Laure Chirurgien

Measuring oxygen and community production Laure Chirurgien is responsible for measuring dissolved oxygen in seawater and community production. Here she describes the various instruments she uses to [...]