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 ...