From June 19 to July 13, 2017, researchers from the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), based in Marseille, have led the “Sargassum” expedition on board ANTEA, the IRD's oceanographic vessel. . They left Cayenne on June 19 for a 25-day sea voyage between Guyana, the West Indies and the Sargasso Sea. This expedition, supported by the French Oceanographic Fleet, the IRD and the CNRS-INSU, aims to determine the origin of Sargassum algae which regularly run aground on the Caribbean coasts and to determine the physico-chemical and biological mechanisms which promote their proliferation. "During this oceanographic campaign, a significant sampling of the fauna and flora associated with" Sargassum rafts "will be carried out, in particular by scuba diving." can we read in a press release.
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