Throughout the ATLASea program, you’ll find here all the articles recounting the progress and highlights of this marine adventure
La Planète Revisitée, sampling mission in Guadeloupe
From September 27 to November 13, 2024, ATLASea joined the « La Planète Revisitée » exploration campaign led by the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) to collect new specimens on the southern islands of Guadeloupe: Marie-Galante, Les Saintes (Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas) and La Désirade. La Planète Revisitée is an international project initiated in Vanuatu in 2006 by […]
Channel Ground Fish Survey sampling mission in the English Channel
From September 16 to October 18, 2024, members of ATLASea joined Ifremer’s Channel Ground Fish Survey (CGFS) mission to collect new marine specimens in the English Channel. On Monday September 16, in the port of Brest, an ATLASea team boarded the Ifremer ship “Thalassa” to take part in the Channel Ground Fish Survey campaign. Since […]
Mission to Dinard
New marine specimens were collected along the shore of Dinard, a town in Brittany on the « Côte d’Émeraude », during the first sampling mission that was executed entirely by the ATLASea program. Beach of the « Pointe de la Roche Pelée » and Marine Station of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Dinard. © ATLASea From June 24 to […]
Mission to New Caledonia
As part of the KANAMECO oceanographic campaign led by the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), ATLASea had the opportunity to collect new samples of marine species during the month of March in the large southern lagoon off Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia. From March 11 to 31, a number of ATLASea members, including Janaina […]
Launch of the DIVE-Sea targeted project
Thanks to its expertise in collecting, taxonomy and conservation, the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) is coordinating the field component of this DIVE-Sea program. The aim is to coordinate the collection of marine organisms for genomic sequencing. To mark the launch of the targeted DIVE-Sea project, a press conference was organized on Friday April 5, […]
ATLASea sampling in Leucate
Between September 26th and October 6th 2023, a group of ATLASea researchers participated in a sampling expedition in Leucate, near Narbonne on the western side of the French Mediterranean coast. The expedition was organized by the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle. After collecting the samples, the boat crews and divers placed them in cold water and […]