The oceanographic campaign BOUM took place from 16 June to 20 July 2008 in the western and eastern Mediterranean aboard the M/O L'Atalante.
Its aim was to provide a longitudinal description of the biogeochemistry and biological diversity of the Mediterranean Sea, and to produce a detailed study of biological production and its fate in three sites representing, on a regional scale, the main characteristics of contrasting environments found in the oligotrophic ocean.
Most of the results have been published in a special issue of the European journal Biogeosciences: Interactions between planktonic organisms and the biogeochemical cycles of biogenic elements in the Mediterranean Sea during intense summer stratification: the BOUM experiment.
Editor(s): T. Moutin, L. Prieur, C. Jeanthon, and A. V. Borges
The website
At the heart of an oceanographic campaign!
