Street Science: art and augmented reality to understand plankton

Avec son application mobile gratuite, Street Science propose au grand public d’expérimenter la réalité augmentée et de plonger dans le monde du plancton pour comprendre, en s’amusant, le rôle fondamental […]
Plastics Planet" conference at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

Join MIO's Natascha Schmidt live on youtube as she takes part in the "Planète Plastique" conference at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, with a presentation on Additives to plastic [...].
An exceptional conference at the MIO!

Daniel Pauly lundi prochain 13 septembre de 12:00 à 14:00 au Grand Amphi du bâtiment Océanomed au MIO-Luminyll interviendra sur le thème :« Les impacts de la pêche et du […]
IUCN Congress : Live Biomim'expo on 7 September 2021

Packed with debates and presentations, the IUCN Congress provided the opportunity for a live Biomim'expo on 7 September 2021 on the theme of Architecture, Cities, Biodiversity and Biomimetics, with [...].
The Cédric Garnier 2021 Prize for Excellence was awarded to Vincent Fauvelle (CEM team)

On 07 September 2021, the MIO Comex awarded the Cédric Garnier 2021 prize to Vincent Fauvelle, IRD research fellow (CEM team)The Comex recalled the excellent quality [...]
What is bioluminescence?

Fluorescent, phosphorescent, bioluminescent... What are they? Laurie Casalot from the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) MIO Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography tells us all about it! To find out more
Our former doctoral student Valentine Meunier, UMR Entropie / UMR MIO, selected by Vanity Fair France as one of the 30 people under 30 who will change France in 2021.

Valentine Meunier, biologist, aged 28Hope. The title of her thesis, to be presented in April 2021, may seem daunting: "Interactions between scleractinian corals, microplankton and planktonic diazotrophs". But in it she discusses two major discoveries and [...].
Marine biodiversity: how can we preserve the Posidonia meadow?

In the Mediterranean, a large part of the biodiversity develops on the seabed between 0 and 50 metres. It is at this depth that the Posidonia meadow is found, a plant that [...]
The VVP is getting bolder, JULIO is doing well and "C'est Toujours pas Sorcier" is filming.

The "C'est toujours pas sorcier" (CTPS) team of cameramen and stage manager boarded the Antédon II on Tuesday 31 August for the JULIO-VVP-test mission (31 August to 3 September 2021).
Congratulations to Marc Garel (MEB), who defended his thesis on 24 September 2021.

In front of a packed amphitheatre, Marc gave a brilliant presentation of his thesis on the following subject: Hyperbaric methods, procedures and techniques for the study of deep-sea microorganisms in [...].