Pint of Sciences Festival in Aubagne for the MIO!

How about taking science and scientists out of the laboratories and into the pubs? That's the concept behind the Pint of Science Festival! Meet the scientists from the MIO [...].
BIOLUMOPS: underwater gliders to map bioluminescence in the Mediterranean

The CNRS Earth and Universe Institute has just published an article on the ANR BIOLUMOPS project (Bioluminescence Marine, Observations spatio-temporelles in situ par Planeur Sous-marin) coordinated by our colleague Séverine [...].
EMBIO team: Monitoring biodiversity

Hosted by our colleagues Delphine Thibault and Sandrine Ruitton, the magazine Plongez! devoted a feature to the activities of the MIO EMBIO Team in issue 57 of [...].
In Marseilles, the renaissance of the seabed

The MIO and our colleague Sandrine Ruitton are featured in an article in Sciences et Avenir, published in issue 937 of March 2025, on the artificial reefs at Cortiou.
Interview with Marc Tedetti on the ocean and the UNOC for Vietnam

Our colleague Marc Tedetti, an oceanographer and geochemist who has been based at the IRD in Asia since September 2022 and has been assigned to the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (USTH), Faculty of [...].
Glacial algae: a crucial role in absorbing nutrients and accelerating ice melt

Scientific results - CNRS Terre & UniversA new study published in Nature Communications reveals how pigmented glacial microalgae (Ancylonema spp.) colonise newly exposed Greenland ice surfaces. [...]
Conferences for the general public | Treize Minutes Marseille 2025

For their 2025 edition, the Treize Minutes Marseille will be held at the Espace Julien in Marseille and will be streaming from 5pm on 29 April 2025!
After Work PRESSION HYPERBAR | When's the last bouillabaisse?

OSU PYTHEAS is organising an after-work event on 30 April 2025 at 7.00 pm at Brasserie Zoumaï - 7 Cours Gouffé, 13006 Marseille, on the theme: When will the last [...]
Depths - The secrets of the deep sea

CNRS Éditions has just published a comic strip, under the direction of Sophie Gambardella, Pascale Ricard & Séverine Martini, on knowledge of the deep seabed and understanding the [...].
Lead in the water: sediments tell the story of pollution in Ha Long Bay

The evolution of environmental contamination can be tracked and dated thanks to sediments, archives of past human activities.An article in IRD Le Mag on a recent publication by our research department [...].