Pôle Mer: continuous information
International and you : Defense Industry Days seminarThis information comes from the DGE and is relayed by GICANThe DGA is organising a Defense Industry Days seminar in conjunction with the French Embassy in Washington [...].
The Amazon River, a major source of organic contaminants in the tropical North Atlantic
Article taken from the CNRS/INSU website published on 15 July 2019Organic additives for plastics, such as organophosphate esters and bisphenols, as well as other emerging organic contaminants, such as [...]
Control mechanisms in a complex marine ecosystem: less microplankton, fewer forage fish, more predators
A team of French researchers1 has studied the decline in catches of small pelagic fish (sardines, anchovies) by small-scale French fishermen in the north-western Mediterranean over the last ten years. [...]
The latest results obtained with the OCARINA platform highlighted in EOS, the AGU journal
This wave-following platform was developed by Denis Bourras, a researcher at MIO, ten years ago to study turbulent flows at the air-sea interface, in collaboration with [...].
Joint information mission on endocrine disrupters
At the invitation of Michel Vialay, Chairman, and Laurianne Rossi and Claire Pitollat, co-rapporteurs of the joint information mission on endocrine disruptors in plastic containers, the [...]
Meeting 26 June 2019 LMI COSYS-Med Phase 2-1
The meeting was organised following good news from the Scientific Advisory Board, which proposed that the LMI be renewed for a second phase.
SEAmester - the fourth edition!
Trente-huit étudiants d’Afrique du sud, de Namibie et de Norvège ont embarqué sur le brise-glace SA Agulhas II au Cap, pour la quatrième édition de la classe SEAmester !Parmi les […]
PEACETIME: Traffic in the Sicilian Channel and South Tyrrhenian Sea
The drifting buoys released during the Peacetime oceanographic cruise have contributed to the MedSVP (Mediterranean Surface Velocity Program). Analysis of this invaluable data set has provided new information on the [...]
GOMBESSA 5 Expedition: Mediterranean Planet
The Gombessa 5: Mediterranean Planet expedition has just begun. Four divers from Andromède Océanologie (Laurent, Thibaut, Yannick and Antonin) will be spending 28 days at saturation point, exploring around ten sites between [...].
Creation of the Institute of Microbiology, Bioenergy and Biotechnology at the University of Aix-Marseille
IM2B is a project for an interdisciplinary training and research institute at AMU bringing together teams from the following laboratories: AFMB, BIAM, BBF, BIP, IGS, ISM2, LCB, LISM, BBF, MIO, M2P2, internationally [...].