Le Monde de Jamy - How can we save the Mediterranean?
A France TV documentary posted online on 19 May 2025: Turquoise waters, multicoloured reefs, dolphins and whales: how much longer will we be able to enjoy the splendours of the [...].
BioSWOT2025 meeting at the MIO: first results from a Mediterranean biophysical expedition across the fine scales of the ocean (1-100 km)
The BioSWOT2025 meeting was an opportunity to present the first confirmed results of the BioSWOT-Med campaign, which took place in 2023 and explored the influence of eddies, fronts and [...].
JEAI EXTREM BIODIV VALOR project
We were delighted to welcome our research partners from the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P - Morocco) to the MIO, as part of the JEAI EXTREM BIODIV VALOR project, from 12 [...].
Étang de Berre: These shower flowers help research into the blue crab
Report Maritima Médias - To study the presence of blue crabs in the Étang de Berre, scientists are using shower flowers, to which the larvae of the blue crab attach themselves.
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. [...]