Audiovisual

Our activities on the Black Carbon in Vietnam

The black carbon, what is it ?

 

 

The black carbon, fine polluter

 

 

The black carbon, a challenge without borders

 

Wave dynamics on the rocks of the Basque Country

 

Physical oceanography ! Discover the dynamics of waves on the rocks of the Basque Country with Damien Sous (MIO - UTLN - UPPA).

 

Production-Direction: Kestu/Gabriel Courty-Villanur

Saupe qui peut : a film to be better in his plate

 

Our plate is the reflection of our links to biodiversity. Short circuits, sustainable fishing, forgotten species to be rediscovered: there are many ways to eat with respect for life. This is the purpose of the film "Saupe qui peut! This documentary, produced by the association Bouillabaisse Turfu and the Parc national des Calanques, gives us tracks to feel better in our plate. This documentary brings together the chef Christian Qui, founder of Bouillabaisse Turfu, Sandrine Ruitton, a scientist from the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO) and Achraf Stifine, a fisherman from Marseilles. By crossing the views between cooking, artisanal fishing and marine biodiversity, it encourages consumers to cook a forgotten or even unloved species: the saupe, a herbivorous fish rather abundant in the Mediterranean. After a preview screening at the World Conservation Congress last September, the public release of this film in 2022 marks the National Park's entry into the "International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture" decreed by the UN.

 

Knowing and understanding in order to find sustainable solutions

 

Laurie Casalot, MIO-IRD microbiologist, talks about bioluminescent bacteria (from 2'25")

 

An invasive red algae detected off the island of Port-CrosCros

France 2 - Journal de 13h00 - Edition of Friday, January 28, 2022 (from 15'00")

 

Lophocladia lallemandii, an invasive filamentous red alga native to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, has been detected for the first time in the waters of the Port-Cros National Park by researchers from the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO).

Sandrine Ruitton and Charles-François Boudouresque (MIO) ell us more about its possible impacts in this report.

 

BFM Var - Toulon: the BathyBot robot explores the deep sea

 

 

Watch the video

The eyes of the sea: the Bathybot robot will dive into the darkness of the Mediterranean abyss - France Inter podcast

 

A small robot named Bathybot will dive more than 2.5 kilometers deep into the Mediterranean Sea, where no light penetrates. Its mission: to inventory the organisms of the abyss and reveal the mysteries of bioluminescence.

 

Photo : Test of the Bathybot underwater robot in Toulon, January 13, 2022
Crédit : AFP - Nicolas TUCAT

 

Listen to the Podcast

 

BathyBot/BJS connection

 

The test procedure of connection of BathyBot to the Secondary Junction Box (BJS). First test done in January 2020. The Nautile submarine will perform the same procedures during the EMSO-LO BathyCruise campaign in February 2022.

 

Bathy'illusions

 

Poetic encounter between BathyBot/BathyReef (@bathybot) and Clémentine Marie (@Clem_Mry on twitter)

 

Protecting biodiversity: on the way to zero plastic waste

 

Richard Sempere, Director of the Institute of Ocean Sciences at AMU and member of the MIO, spoke at the IUCN congress on BFMTV Marseille, about the degradation of plastic as part of the ambitious project of the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030.

 


 

Marine biodiversity: how to preserve the Posidonia meadow ?

 

In the Mediterranean, a large part of the biodiversity develops on the sea bed between 0 and 50 meters. It is at this depth that we find the Posidonia meadow, a flowering plant endemic to this sea, a real nursery for the Mediterranean marine world.

Meet our colleague Sandrine Ruitton, speaker of the program La Terre au Carré of Wednesday, September 8, 2021 !

 

Jacques Piazzola guest on "C'est Excellent !" - Radio Sud

Jacques Piazzola, Professor, member of the MIO and Director of the MEDD Pole of the University of Toulon was interviewed on July 4th by Judith Beller on Sud Radio (from 26"10). A nice exchange also with the journalist Christine Kelly. The Pole MEDD, the climate field, the anthopic impact and the marine environment are in the spotlight today !

 

France Inter - Camille goes green - Ecological disaster in sight in Sri Lanka

 

The fire on board a cargo ship that has been sinking for 13 days off the coast of Sri Lanka's capital was extinguished on Tuesday 1 June thanks to an international operation. But the ship is now sinking, with fuel oil, nitric acid, and millions of plastic pellets on board that have already started to spread. As Damien Sous (from 2'10"), from the MIO-University of Toulon, explains, the most direct impact remains fuel oil and nitric acid !

 

France Inter - Le club de la Terre au carré - The invisible world of life, jellyfish and the decline of birds

 

Delphine Thibault from MIO intervened (from 38'10") this June 4, 2021 on jellyfish and gelatinous bodies in Le club de la Terre au carré on France Inter
Learn more about jellyfish, these gelatinous animals that we will meet in the water this summer !

Interreg Marittimo SPlasH! Project

 

How are microplastics transported and dispersed in the ocean? What role do beaches play? Are they a source by reinjecting microplastics into the oceanic environment or a sink in which they would be deposited?

Partners : Università degli Studi di Genova European Research Institute Onlus Université de Toulon/Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography MIO

Funded by : Interreg Marittimo It-Fr Maritime

 

NOTION Project: These small marine creatures that could save our oceans

 

The ocean contributes to climate regulation. Thus, in the face of global warming and ocean acidification, what is the role of diazotrophic plankton in this function? Who are their allies? What are the consequences of climate change on these micro-organisms and, more importantly, on the biological activity and productivity of the oceans?

Watch the replay of the conference given by Mar Benavides, microbial oceanographer and researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO/IRD), who presented the NOTION research project she is leading.

 

Urgently Addressing Environmental Problems: A Series of Events to Alert Decision Makers in Southeast Asia

Xavier Mari, biogeochemist and oceanographer at IRD-MIO spoke on March 22, 2021 at the online event on air pollution entitled "Black carbon: the dark side of human activity". He shared with other experts the results of past and ongoing projects, as well as solution-based initiatives designed to mitigate air pollution and reduce emissions.

 

Emily Strady, also a researcher at IRD-MIO, brought her expertise on the issue of plastic pollution in marine environments to the event "Leaking Cities in South-East Asia: Marine Plastic Pollution". She spoke about interventions to significantly reduce the global dumping of plastics in the oceans, particularly in Southeast Asia.

 

SurLeFront : The disaster of ghost nets

 

France 5 - Interview of Sandrine Ruitton

They represent 10% of the plastic in the oceans and are a death trap for marine animals. They are ghost nets: fishing gear lost or abandoned by fishermen.
Divers are fighting against this plague in the Mediterranean.

#surlefront Hugo Clément

Tonga mission - In search of Pacific submarine volcanoes

 

One year ago, the Atalante, a french oceanographic vessel, sailed towards the Pacific in search of shallow submarine volcanoes to understand and anticipate the consequences of fluid emanations on marine life and climate. The expedition, led by Sophie Bonnet (MIO IRD) and Cécile Guieu (LOV CNRS), is analyzing and studying the consequences of the contribution of trace elements from shallow hydrotermal sources to determine their potential impact on marine productivity and the biological carbon pump.

 

 

Director : Hubert Bataille (IRD)

Co-production : IRD-CNRS - Copyright IRD 2020

What is Sargasso?

 

Welcome aboard the Nautilus League submarine !

We talk about Sargasso with Thierry Thibaut, teacher-researcher at the MIO !

 

Descend into the Abyss in video!

 

Echosciences - Culture Science PACA - BathyBot, the explorer of the depths !

With Christian Tamburini and Severine Martini (MIO)

 

NOTION Project

Understanding of the major role of phytoplankton in the biological activity of the ocean

 

At last the video of the #NOTIONproject funded by Fondation BNP Paribas is online!
MIO Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography - Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen - Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung
@FilellaLamadrid @domitilleLou on twitter

 

Impact of Cigarette Butts on the Marine Environment

Marianne Quemeneur on RCTI

 

RTCI - Radio Tunis Chaîne Internationale received on June 26th Marianne Quemeneur, Microbiologist MIO-IRD, for an interview on her latest work.

An air purifier installed at the Lycée Français Alexandre Yersin in Hanoi to study

the impact of fine particle pollution on marine processes !

 

Presentation of Xavier Mari - MIO-IRD

 

In order to be able to carry out experiments to determine the impact of fine particle pollution on marine processes, we acquired the Aufero air purifier developed by ENS Clean Air. Technically, this air purifier works by positive ionisation. The fine particles, which are drawn in at a flow rate of 7500 m3/h, are ionised at the inlet of the air purifier and then collected on a negatively charged metal plate, thus purifying the exhaust air. This filterless air purification system (i.e. it can operate continuously) is capable of removing particles from 10 nanometres to 30 micrometres in the ambient air. This equipment, generally used to purify the air in very large polluted spaces, such as car parks, has been acquired with IRD funding as part of the SOOT-SEA initiative in order to collect large quantities of fine particles; these are recovered by scraping the collection plate.

Initially planned to be installed outdoors in Hanoi, we felt it would have been a pity if no one had taken advantage of this purified air. So, in agreement with the French Embassy in Vietnam and the French Lycée Alexandre Yersin, we opted for an installation in the gymnasium of the latter.

Indeed, given the deterioration of the air quality in Hanoi, the school had to implement a protocol to protect the students, including the elimination of outdoor classes when the PM2.5 concentration exceeds 55 µg/m3 (AQI>150); the classrooms benefiting from a general air purification system. The gymnasium to which the students could have gone when air quality reached critical levels was not equipped with an air purification system.

The SOOT-SEA air purifier was therefore installed in the gymnasium. It operates continuously and provides both cleaner air in the gym and a continuous collection of particulate aerosols present in Hanoi. We collect about 200g of fine particles every 3 months.

The MIO coordinator of a European research project on microplastics led by the University of Toulon

 

The Interreg Marittimo SPlasH project! (Stop alle Plastiche in H2O) project aims to analyze the presence, origin and dynamics of microplastics in the ports of the Tyrrhenian Sea (Genoa, Olbia, Toulon) as well as to determine their potential role as a vector of contaminants in coastal areas. The data collected by the MIO laboratory of the University of Toulon and its partners will provide the international community with elements to better understand the link between geography and quantity/nature of microplastics as well as the risk associated with their presence.

 

Talk to an Arctic scientist

 

A live broadcast took place today with Dr. Lars-Eric Heimbürger-Boavida, chemical oceanographer at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO) in Marseille. The opportunity for students to ask their questions live! #ArcticLive AXA Education Ocean

 

Talks with Gerald Gregori, Thierry Moutin & Sandrine Ruitton in the Radio program Méditerranée et Biodiversité !

Radio Grenouille - Live from the Marseille Science Village - October 12, 2019

 

Report on Sargasso in the 19/20 of France 3 TV

 

Meet our colleagues in this report broadcast on France 3 on Friday 8 February 2019 from 16'10".

The France 3 TV film crew interviewed Sandrine Ruitton, Cristele Chevalier, Léo Berline, and Thierry Thibaut on their research on the Sargasso, in our offices.

 

Debate on France 3: Saving the Mediterranean

 

It is a sea on the edge of asphyxiation. Seriously threatened by pollution, overfishing, mass tourism.... How to save this common natural heritage? Inventory, initiatives, solutions...

Richard Sempéré, director of the M.I.O., participated in a debate with experts, witnesses and actors involved after the screening of the film La Méditerranée va-t-elle passera- l'été? (A film by Alexis Marrant, co-produced by ARTE France / CAPA PRESSE) broadcast on September 24, 2018 after Soir 3.

In search of the new Sargasso Sea selected at the LUMEXPLORE Festival in La Ciotat

 

Lumexplore 2018 - 13-16 September 2018 - Cinéma Eden Théâtre - 13600 La Ciotat

Les Lumières de l'Exploration, an association mandated by the Société des Explorateurs Français, organized the third edition of the Festival du Film d'Exploration Scientifique et Environnementale, at La Ciotat, at the Cinéma Eden Théâtre, with the screening of expedition and discovery films, meetings with the Explorers, conferences and exhibitions.

Our colleagues, Thierry Thibaut, Jean Blanchot, Sandrine Ruitton and Aurélie Blanfuné presented A la recherche de la nouvelle mer des Sargasses, a film by Hubert Bataille - IRD Production.

 

Online press kit

Guillaume Marchessaux, doctoral student at the MIO, questioned about the invasion of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Etang de Berre

 

Report of the M6 news broadcast on Thursday, December 14, 2017

Mediterranean: can we still save it?

On Tuesday June 13, 2017, Richard Sempéré participated with Jean-François Ghiglione, CNRS Research Director at the Microbial Oceanography Laboratory in Banyuls-sur-Mer in the program La Méthode scientifique on France Culture.

Is the Mediterranean Sea in great danger? What is the impact and responsibility of global warming, overfishing and pollution on the loss of biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea?

 

MIO at the World Underwater Image Festival

 

The M.I.O. was present at the World Festival of Underwater Images from 29 October to 1 November 2015 with :

  •  a stand presenting its research activities
  •  a conference Meeting with..... Medusas & Co on Friday
  •  a film in competition: Micromégas (8') Musical that we present below !

The MIO participated at Science, on tourne !

 

Science, On tourne ! is a cycle of webcasts between scientists and high school students developed by the consortium C'est dans l'Aire, territoires de la CSTI. This film on aquatic micropollutants was directed by LACQ ODYSSEE, Centre de Culture scientifique des Landes et Pyrénées Atlantiques.

Damien Sous, a teacher-researcher at the MIO and responsible for hydrodynamic measurements in the Adour estuary, participated in this wonderful adventure as part of the PANACHE project (CNRS INSU EC2CO).

Contact : Damien Sous

 

Futura Sciences posts a video by Sandrine Ruitton of the MIO: Posidonia, essential to the marine life of the Mediterranean

 

 

Movies

In search of the new Sargasso Sea

 

From June 19 to July 13, 2017, a scientific expedition conducted on board ANTEA, a ship of the French Oceanographic Fleet, enabled a team of researchers to carry out a significant sampling of the fauna and flora associated with "sargasso rafts". These pelagic brown algae found in the tropical Atlantic have been stranded on the Atlantic coast since 2011, due to ocean circulation. They are responsible for significant environmental, health and economic problems, particularly in the Caribbean and French Guiana.

 

The OUTPACE cruise in video!

 

The OUTPACE oceanographic cruise took place from February 18 to April 3, 2015 in the Pacific Ocean aboard the N/O L'Atalante. The project aimed to provide a zonal description of biogeochemistry and biological diversity in the tropical southwest Pacific and to produce a detailed study of organic production and its future in three contrasting sites, with particular attention to production supported by nitrogen fixation and carbon export by the biological pump.

 

 

In the light of the cytometer, phytoplankton under influence

 

Let's embark on this film made by Canal IRD aboard the Hannibal, for a double mission: to carry out phytoplankton measurements using automated techniques in the Gulf of Gabes on the east coast of Tunisia, and to train Tunisian students in these techniques.

 

Etang de Berre, a body of water as it is (The)

 

 

A film directed by Marcel Dalaise and produced by CNRS Images.Researchers in different disciplines try to find solutions to rehabilitate this lake and its ecosystem into a living place for those staying on its banks.

 

 

VAHINE presented at the New Caledonia Underwater Image Festival

 

The documentary film made in early 2013 by Jean Michel Boré (IRD) during the VAHINE cruise in New Caledonia, was presented to the general public during the New Caledonia Underwater Image Festival.

 

Artificial reefs of the Prado

 

Five years after the establishment of the Prado artificial reefs in the sea, Sandrine Ruitton (MCF at the MIO) in charge of the scientific monitoring of the PRADO RECIFS programme (City of Marseille) offers you a beautiful video taken during her dives in 2012.

 

Between science and writing: Binôme The meanings of words

 

Binôme is the result of a collaboration between playwrights, artists and scientists. According to a precise and timed protocol, each Binôme - a scientist and an author - produces a text that is read by a group of actor-directors and musicians. Each reading is preceded by a film showing the encounter between the scientist and the author.

Acids Tears of Bonne-Maman : Julie AMINTHE, author and Marc TEDETTI, biochemical oceanographer, specialist in the impact of UV rays on the marine environment of the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (IRD, MIO - OSU Pythéas).

 

 

After meeting Bernard Olivier, a specialist in microbiology of extreme environments (IRD / MIO), Alexandra Badea, author, wrote Extremophile.

 

MISTRALS 2015 International Conference - Interviews

 

La Voix est Libre - Cop 21, on D-Day

 

Interview with Richard Sempéré (from 21'53'')

Working on global warming or already facing its effects, researchers, academics and natural park managers will give us their impressions. Success or failure? What future for our region? For its landscapes and biodiversity? What kind of agriculture tomorrow?
Focus on global warming, its already visible... and predictable effects.

 

The future of the Mediterranean is worrying

 

Richard Sempéré from the MIO and Etienne Ruellan from the INSU interviewed by La Provence.com during the International MISTRALS Conference - 20-22 October 2015.

Global warming will not spare the Mediterranean, this is the assessment established by scientists and academics who will deliver their first results at the Mistrals conference, organized at the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille : Report.

 

MISTRALS 2015: the videos of the conference

 

Find all the videos of the MISTRALS 2015 International Conference event on the IN2P3 CNRS website and in particular the speech by Richard Sempéré, MIO Director, Overview of the MERMEX activities and indicators and François Carlotti, Ecological processes: biogeochemistry and food web interactions.