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At the bottom of the Mediterranean, "BathyBot" will track down the mysteries of the "dark ocean".
BathyBot will soon be the world's first mobile submarine, permanently installed at a depth of 2,500 metres to unlock the mysteries of the deep.
The little robot received extensive media coverage.
Photo: Testing the Bathybot underwater robot in Toulon on 13 January 2022
Credit: AFP - Nicolas TUCAT
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January 2022
At the bedside of the Mediterranean - Update on the MISTRALS programme
In its latest issue of July-September 2021, the La Recherche magazine reports on the results of the MISTRALS programme with our colleague Daniela Banaru. Coordinated by the CNRS, Mistrals is a joint programme between Ademe, CEA, Ifremer, Inrae, IRD and Météo-France.
A recent MIO publication highlighted in The Guardian
Terrawatch: how tropical islands feed algal blooms
Scientists uncover secrets of 30-mile 'slow-cooked' cluster in South Pacific Ocean
Futura Sciences.com
- Ecoregionalisation for a better understanding of the Mediterranean Sea
- Blue sharks fall victim to magnetic hooks... supposed to protect them
- Are hydrothermal springs the origin of life?
- Jean-Georges Harmelin - Biography
- Red coral, the gold of the Mediterranean
- The little-known life of nanophytoplankton
- Charles-François Boudouresque - Biography
- Posidonia, a miracle in the Mediterranean - Feature
- The Mediterranean manta ray in danger: drones are going to help it
- Bioluminescence and marine convection are closely linked
- The impact of cigarette butts on marine environments
5,000 years ago, the plague struck Europe - Journal La Marseillaise
Research: an oceanological bridge between Marseille and San Diego
At the initiative of the French embassy in the United States, a dozen American students from Scripps, the prestigious oceanography institute in San Diego, are currently on a study trip in France. With the theme of "oceans and climate", this scientific journey, organised as part of Fadex-O*, will take them successively to the Oceanological Observatory in Villefranche-sur-Mer and the Institut océanographique Paul Ricard on the island of Les Embiez, as well as Montpellier, Brest and Paris, at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle. One of their most important stops, however, is the city of Marseille, and in particular the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO) on the Luminy campus. (...)
Read the article in La Provence
