 Accord de Siège conclu entre la Principauté de Monaco et la CIESM
Répondant à un souhait formulé de longue date par le Bureau de la CIESM, un Accord de Siège a été conclu le 4 décembre 2009 entre les Autorités Monégasques et la Commission en présence de nombreux Représentants des Pays Membres ...
Joint International Workshop on "Impact of large coastal Mediterranean cities on marine ecosystems"
CIESM recently joined forces with ASRT (Egypt), IAEA/MEL, IFREMER (France), NIOF (Egypt), and UNEP/MAP-MEDPOL to organize an International Workshop (10-12 February 2009, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt) aiming to promote the sharing of experiences and tools among main Mediterranean actors so as to better manage the marine environment ...
Some like it hot – or how Mediterranean marine species face global warming with diverse fortunes
According to the new scientific Report 'Climate warming and related changes in the Mediterranean biota' just released by the Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM), global warming is transforming the Mediterranean into a much different sea than it was only 20 years ago ...
Hydrochanges Program: up-to-date Gibraltar analysis (by Claude Millot)
The T-S hourly time series at Gibraltar are now almost 6 years long, as shown by Figures 1 and 2 below.
In the southern part of the strait, the interface between the inflowing warm fresh Atlantic Water (AW) and the outflowing cold salty Mediterranean Waters (MWs) is immersed, on average, at ~150 m ...
Hydrochanges Program: latest from the Gibraltar Strait
The two Hydrochanges moorings set at Gibraltar since January 2003 were successfully recovered for the third time on October 29 onboard the Moroccan Royal Navy's vessel RaisAl Mounastiri, commanded by Captain Bengebara ...
Training Workshop on Polonium-210 - CIESM Mediterranean MusselWatch II
In the framework of the newly launched Phase II of its Mediterranean Mussel Watch Programme (more info), CIESM joined forces with ENEA, and IAEA to organize an international training workshop "Polonium-210 (Lead-210) Survey in the Adriatic Sea ...
Marine genetic resources: immense biotechnology potential for Mediterranean nations
The vast chemical diversity of the oceans, revealed in full by recent screening molecular tools, opens new, exciting scenarios for research at the interface between science and business. Since much of sea life, particularly in deep waters, is yet untapped, marine (or “Blue”) Biotechnology is a fast emerging sector ...
Acidification – Marine life takes a bad trip
Owing to the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide being released to the atmosphere “ocean acidification may soon threaten unique ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea ”, concluded an international group of 15 leading scientists who just met in Menton, France, at the invitation of the Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM) ...
In memory of Francois Doumenge (1926 – 2008)
Hydrochanges Program:
a new mooring station in the Antikithira Strait
With the collaboration of HCMR (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research), the easternmost station in the CIESM Hydrochanges Program is now operational after a phase of testing. The CTD has been launched in the Antikithira Strait ...
CIESM and Prince Albert II Foundation engage a new Partnership to track Mediterranean tropicalization
The Prince Albert II Foundation has endeavoured to support, over five years, a new CIESM Programme that will detect, quantify and map changes of selected, sensitive species indicating climate warming in the Mediterranean Sea ...
New consensus on Messinian Salinity Crisis – CIESM Workshop 33
The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) is widely regarded as one of the most dramatic episodes of oceanic change of the past 20 million years. It occured some 6 million years ago, when vast amounts of evaporite salt were deposited in the Mediterranean area, leading to a significant drop in Global ocean salinity ...
Mediterranean Mussel Watch Program: CIESM publishes 1st cesium-137 survey.
38th CIESM Congress (9-13 April 2007, Istanbul ). Highlights ...
CIESM investigations point to drastic hydrological changes in the western Mediterranean
The Strait of Gibraltar is a “strategic” location for monitoring the state of the Mediterranean Sea. There, close to the sea bottom, a sensor operated by CIESM as part of its Hydrochange program continuously records long-term changes in salinity and sea temperature on an hourly basis ...
CIESM about to launch SUB2 cruise
Gibraltar moorings - CIESM Hydrochanges Program
In cooperation with the Moroccan Hydrographical Service, a CIESM team retrieved its two CTD moored in the Strait of Gibraltar.
CIESM SUB 1 cruise successfully completed
CIESM launches multi-disciplinary cruise to explore deep Tyrrhenian Sea
CIESM renews with a century-old tradition, launching its first “multi-disciplinary” research cruise in 80 years to explore poorly studied areas in the northern Sicily Channel and the south-Tyrrhenian Sea ...
Disparition du Prince Rainier de Monaco, ancien Président de la CIESM
In Memoriam - Marko Branica (1931-2004)
Post-Congress comments by CIESM President and DG
In the aftermath of a very successful 37th Congress (early June 2004, Barcelona, Spain), the President and the Director General of the Commission held a press conference at CIESM Headquarters in Monte Carlo ...
37th CIESM Congress (7-11 June 2004, Barcelona ). Highlights ...
Portugal officially joins CIESM
To celebrate the adhesion of Portugal to CIESM, the President of the Commission - Prince Albert of Monaco - paid an official visit to Lisbon on 13 and 14 April ...
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