Research projects

  The French-Taiwanese project CNP aims to deepen our understanding of the biological characteristics of scleractinians by focusing on their neurobiology. Scleractinians, or “hard corals,” [...]

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

Project Summary: DYSTRO-B investigates the effects of eutrophication and nutrient imbalance (dystrophy) on the structure and productivity of phytoplankton communities in the Bay of Seine. [...]

Project Summary: The EVEREST project focuses on the ecological restoration of intertidal mudflats in the Seine estuary, a dynamic environment structured by a strong salinity [...]

In the marine environment, infrastructures and equipment are particularly vulnerable to biofouling, which includes both micro- and macrofouling. This affects many maritime sectors such as [...]

ECOCAP is a research and development programme on the environmental integration of marine renewable energies (MRE), coordinated by France Energies Marines (FEM). The project aims [...]

One of the major challenges in the France (Channel) – England (FCE) area concerns coastal water bodies, which often contain high levels of nutrients resulting [...]

Today, maritime infrastructures (dikes, jetties, quays, groynes, moorings, etc.) are neither designed nor built with the aim of enhancing and protecting ecosystems. The Marineff project [...]

SMILE is an innovative and collaborative high-frequency instrumentation research program serving the scientific community. The SMILE buoy is highly innovative: it is solar-powered and enables [...]