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From 20 May to 29 June 2026, the Ifremer ATLASea team joined Ifremer’s MEDITS survey in the Mediterranean to collect new marine specimens. A survey dedicated to demersal resources Every year, the MEDITS (MEDITerranean Trawl Survey) campaign surveys the Mediterranean Sea to assess the status of demersal fish stocks, i.e. species that live on or

From 1 to 5 June 2026, around thirty participants took part in a specimen collection campaign at the Thau Lagoon, based at Ifremer’s Sète station, in the south of France. The Thau Lagoon is a semi-enclosed coastal lagoon connected to the Mediterranean Sea by channels. Subject to strong variations in salinity and temperature, this hybrid

From 30 March to 10 April 2026, ATLASea conducted a new sampling campaign at the Roscoff Biological Station. This spring, the ATLASea teams carried out another large-scale field campaign in Brittany, this time based at the Roscoff Biological Station. The operation brought together more than 110 participants in total, with around 80 people working on-site

On Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the ATLASea leadership team will visit Plouzané, near Brest, at the Ifremer Brittany Center and host a conference (in french) dedicated to the first results of ATLASea, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hugues Roest Crollius and Patrick Wincker, co-directors of the program, will open the conference by presenting the

From January 19 to 30, 2026, ATLASea traveled to Martinique for a special sponge sampling mission! On this occasion, we interviewed Thierry Pérez, a researcher specializing in marine ecology and a member of the program who led this mission. What makes Martinique a particularly interesting site for sponge collection? From the very beginning of the

From October 17 to November 6, 2025, the Ifremer team from ATLASea joined the EVHOE survey (Evaluation of Western European Fishery Resources). Conducted annually by Ifremer over a 46-day period, the EVHOE campaign collects data used to assess the stocks of key demersal species (fish that live and feed near the seabed, such as hake,

From June 16 to 28, 2025, the tour of France’s marine stations continued in Marseille, where the Endoume Marine Station hosted the ATLASea teams for a sampling mission in the Mediterranean. Endoume Marine Station on the left, view from the Station on the right © ATLASea A Large-Scale Scientific Mobilization Around 100 participants took part

The first call for proposals of the ATLASea program has just been published on the ANR website! Call Objective: The aim of this call is to fund projects that leverage the genetic information of marine organisms to identify and study biosynthetic pathways for molecules of interest in various sectors such as agronomy and medicine. Key

We are pleased to announce the mini-symposium “Genomics of Biodiversity” which will take place on the afternoon of Thursday, July 10th, during JOBIM 2025 in Bordeaux. The advent of large-scale sequencing initiatives, such as those coordinated by the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), is transforming the field of comparative genomics. With thousands of high-quality reference genomes

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