Mobile Vessels Project - Oil (L. Sylvi, M. Fiard, C. Militon & P. Cuny
As part of its work to improve knowledge of the behaviour of oil spilt at sea in tropical regions, Cedre (Centre de documentation, de recherche et d'expérimentations [...]
Congratulations Mar Benavides, IRD research fellow, assigned to MIO-CYBELE, who defended her HDR on 05 May 2022.
The HDR defence of Mar Benavides entitled "Ocean N2 fixation across spatiotemporal scales" will take place on 05 May at 14:00 in the Hexagone amphitheatre (library on the Luminy Campus).
SOLUTIONS: Lighting up with bioluminescent bacteria
On land or in the oceans, many living organisms emit their own light to communicate, protect themselves or feed. This is known as bioluminescence. Laurie Casalot [...]
Sophie Bonnet (MIO-CYBELE), winner of the ERC Consolidator Grant 2021 call for proposals
Sophie Bonnet, IRD research director at the MIO, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for her HOPE project, funded to the tune of €2.5 million. The aim of the project is to study [...]
Off the coast of Toulon, the Bathybot robot sets off to explore the planet of the deep
With its WALL-E look, the Bathybot robot will be exploring the seabed for 10 years off the coast of Toulon, at a depth of 2,400 metres. Between bioluminescence and snow, the [...]
SOKOWASA, an oceanographic campaign to study the marine ecosystems south of the Fiji Islands, using an underwater glider: the SeaExplorer
A team of 6 scientists - French, American and Fijian - will be on board the R/V Alis, an ocean-going vessel in the French Oceanographic Fleet, from 19 March to 7 April [...].
Mission at sea by students in the Marine Sciences Masters programme
As they do every year at this time, the first-year students in the Marine Sciences Masters programme went out to sea on missions as part of their [...].
CNES is organising a coastal altimetry day on 17 March: colleagues from MIO will be taking part.
Anne Petrenko, MIO-OPLC ("Edge currents using altimetry at JULIO, off Marseille") and Anne Molcard, MIO-OPCL or Alejandro Caceres-Euse (Fusion of High-Frequency radar & Altrimetry data to retreive [...]).
Marine currents: who will win? Our colleagues from OPLC and SAM took part in the programme "C'est toujours pas sorcier".
Anne Petrenko, Stéphanie Barrillon, Anthony Bosse, Caroline Comby, Jean-Luc Fuda (OPLC), Margaux Dufosse (then an intern at MIO with S. Barrillon) and Nagib Bhairy (SAM) took part in the France 4 programme: [...].
SELAMIK campaign: studying the causes and impact of hyper-sedimentation in the Voh-Koné lagoon, New Caledonia
Situated at the interface between the continent and the ocean, the New Caledonian lagoon is particularly sensitive to human pressures. In recent years, scientists have observed an increase in sedimentation in the lagoon.