Marine Ecosystems and oRganisms reSEArch Lab

Research projects

2025-2028

CNP

Coral Neuropeptides Project

The Franco-Taiwanese CNP project aims to better understand the biological characteristics of scleractiniae by focusing on their neurobiology. The scleractinians or “hard corals” belong to [...]

2024-2027

CARBOREEF

Reef effect of offshore wind farms: impacts on primary carbon production

Project summary: The CARBOREEF project aims to evaluate the impact of offshore wind farms on marine ecosystems and artificial marine infrastructures, focusing on the colonization [...]

2023 - 2026

DYSTRO-B

Eutrophisation et dystrophie en Baie de Seine : Impacts sur les communautés phytoplanctoniques et leur productivité

Project summary: The DYSTRO-B project explores the effects of eutrophication and dystrophy on the structure and productivity of phytoplankton communities in the Bay of Seine. [...]

2023-2026

EVEREST

Evaluation of the ecological functioning of the lateral mudflats upstream of Tancarville to guide new ecological restoration projects by a comparative approach of the functional biodiversity of benthic communities

The Seine estuary is structured by a strong salinity gradient influencing the distribution of biological communities. This gradient goes from salt water at the mouth [...]

2022-2025

BIOSTEM

Standardized Biofouling for Material Testing

In the marine environment, infrastructures and equipment are subjected to the development of biofouling (micro- and macro-fouling). They affect many sectors of activity and equipment [...]

2021-2024

ECOCAP

Ecotoxicological analysis of cathode protections to assess the chemical risk of the elements released from galvanic anodes and the current imposed on the marine environment and its food webs

ECOCAP is an R&D program “Environmental integration of MRE” supported by France Energies Marines (FEM, https://www.france-energies-marines.org ). It aims to evaluate the chemical risk of [...]

2018 - 2023

RaNTrans

Rapid reduction of Nutrients in Transitional waters

One of the essential challenges of the Channel Area (FMA) concerns coastal water bodies which present a high level of nutrients from the supply of [...]

2018-2023

Marineff

MARine Infrastructures EFFects/Biomimetic marine infrastructures

Today, maritime infrastructures (dykes, piers, docks, spikes, anchorages, etc.) are neither designed nor built with the aim of improving and protecting ecosystems in mind. The [...]

Since 2015

SMILE – Instrumented Buoy

Coastal Instrumented Measurement System, for the Environment

SMILE is an innovative and unifying high-frequency instrumentation research program at the service of the scientific community. The SMILE buoy is very innovative, it is [...]