Access to biodiversity and benefit sharing: origins, principles and implementation

The IRD is organising a training course on 24 and 25 November on good ABS? practices and the regulations governing access to biological material and associated information, their exchange and use.
Conference: Impact of plastics on the marine environment

On Friday 24 September, our colleague Mélanie Ourgaud will be giving a talk on the Impact of plastics on the marine environment at Le Rove, Salle des Fêtes Eugêne Lanteri, from 6.30pm to [...].
The MIO SOMLIT Team at the intercomparison week in Brest from 13 to 16 September.

Nicole Garcia, Véronique Lagadec, Michel Laffont and Gérald Grégori took part in the intercomparison exercises that all SOMLIT stations take part in every year. These exercises concern all the variables measured at [...].
Lumexplore 2021: carte blanche for the French water agency

Friday 17 September at 5.45pmRestoring biodiversity in the Mediterranean - is it possible? Round table chaired by:Pierre BoisserySpeakers:- Gilles Lecaillon and Rémy Dubas, from the company "ECOCEAN" and- Franck [...]
OB19 Moving beyond Trichodesmium: assessing the importance of non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs and other previously overlooked nitrogen-fixers in marine ecosystems

We're glad to announce our non-cyanobacterial diazotroph hybrid session at OSM22 (abstract below). Please consider submitting an abstract by 29 September, 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time and spread the word! Mar [...]
ANR Contampump: sampling at sea

Mesures CTD et prélèvements de zooplancton en mer avec le filet Hydrobios.Merci à Dorian Guillemain du service plongée de l’OSU Pytheas / MIO pour ces images. Prélèvements effectués par Javier […]
Ocean Sciences: Marine Biogeochemistry

Discover new insights about carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles in the open ocean, from the surface to the deep-Main topics addressedThe main topics that will be addressed during the course [...].
Operation 'A BOTTLE IN THE SEA...' Mediterranean bio-prospecting campaign

If you're going out to sea for a day or more, coastal or offshore, winter or summer, if you have the time and the inclination, we'd love to take a bottle of [...].
Monte Cristo Challenge 2021, the 23rd edition: Richard Sempéré's speech

Richard Sempéré, EMC team (from 57'37") speaks live about protecting the Mediterranean and the plastic pollution that is affecting it.
An upcoming lecture by Mar Benavides

The Ocean Seminar series at Liverpool University Ocean Sciences is back!Tuesday 28 September at 16:00: Mar Benavides (CYBELE) will present: ′′ Nitrogen fixation through [...].