The MOBIDIC project aims to characterize the effects of magnetic fields induced by offshore wind farm cable networks on two mollusks of interest in the English Channel. It proposes an integrated approach ranging from in situ measurements to controlled environment experiments with different levels of integration, from genomics to transcriptomics, from ecophysiology to ethology and benthic ecology. MOBIDIC proposes to assess the sensitivity of local species, the cuttlefish and the oyster, to these new anthropogenic pressures. Cephalopods and Bivalves, in addition to being of major economic and ecological interest for Normandy, are emblematic and representative of the extreme diversity of forms of marine Mollusks. This project aims to collect unique data and to place a consortium of Norman partners in a leading position in this research area, through the development of highly innovative methods, which can be transposed to a wide spectrum of species potentially subject to anthropogenic pressures due to the energy transition in temperate marine environments, at the regional, national, and international levels.
