Flashback & Paper ad : in her phd Mariana Lage has managed to describe important restratification processes from this @RSI_Turbulence glider mission. Now published in GRL, check it out ! @OsuPytheas @MIOceanologie

#BioSWOT_Med gliders are in the water and now hunting fronts and filaments! @GlidersNor Odin with microstructure well escorted by 2 @SeaExplorerUUV. Next to RV Atalante performing important physical, bgc and bio experiments. @MIOceanologie @SWOT_AdAC @RSI_Turbulence @Groom2RI

And thanks to @CyprusSubsea for support and piloting!
Tomorrow is another busy day with the deployment of 2 @SeaExplorerUUV and 1 Slocum with @RSI_Turbulence package from @GlidersNor.
Very diverse #BioSWOT_Med glider family!

Perfect conditions during #BioSWOT_Med to launch the seaglider on the @OS_MOOSE endurance line in the NW Med spring bloom area under SWOT satellite swath. Great synergy between long-term observations and @SWOT_AdAC research! @MIOceanologie @INSU_CNRS

It was a nice meeting in Paris ! Thanks @SWOT_AdAC for organizing it

I can only strongly recommand to apply ! Bergen is a great place, @Geofysen provides top-quality research environnment, and last but not least, @IlkerFer and @Thomas_Spengler are amazing people to work with ! Spread the word 📢 @Groom2RI @PolarGliders @ueaglider @samsglider

Beautiful day to start our next @OS_MOOSE glider mission to monitor the winter convection and spring bloom in the NW Med ! thanks @CyprusSubsea for piloting support and @SeaExplorerUUV for helping with Argos beacon in no time ! @MIOceanologie @ego_gliderman @Groom2RI @IlicoIr

So good and excited to start our annual cruise in the NW Med of @OS_MOOSE observatory with 125 stations of phys/biogeochem/bio parameters + maintenance of 4 mooring lines, 2 weather buoys along the way. First oceanographic cruise in 2.5 years! crazy :) @MIOceanologie

📣📰 I am very happy to share my new #openaccess paper () showing how strong winds in winter interact with ocean fronts and convection in the NW Med to trigger submesoscale instabilities using @OS_MOOSE glider and a high-res model. @IlicoIr @MIOceanologie

Real-time data on EGO website :
for glider Dipsy
for glider Comet

🌊Exciting collaboration with @HZG_de! Two weeks ago, @OsuPytheas deployed two @TeledyneMarine Slocum gliders equipped with @RSI_Turbulence Microriders and @TeledyneRDI DVL to measure turbulence of deep convection in the NW Mediterranean @OS_MOOSE @ego_gliderman @MIOceanologie

Abrupt warming and salinification of intermediate waters interplays with decline of deep convection in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea - Scientific Reports The Mediterranean Sea is a hotspot for climate change, and recent studies have reported its intense warming and salinification. In this study, we use an outstanding dataset relying mostly on glider endurance lines but also on other platforms to track these trends in the northwestern Mediterranean where deep convection occurs. Thanks to a high spatial coverage and a high temporal resolution over the period 2007–2017, we observed the warming (+0.06  $$^\circ$$ C year $$^{-1}$$ ) and salinification (+0.012 year $$^{-1}$$ ) of Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) in the Ligurian Sea. These rates are similar to those reported closer to its formation area in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Further downstream, in the Gulf of Lion, the intermediate heat and salt content were exported to the deep layers from 2009 to 2013 thanks to deep convection processes. In 2014, a LIW step of +0.3  $$^\circ$$ C and +0.08 in salinity could be observed concomitant with a weak winter convection. Warmer and more saline LIW subsequently accumulated in the northwestern basin in the absence of intense deep convective winters until 2018. Deep stratification below the LIW thus increased, which, together with the air–sea heat fluxes intensity, constrained the depth of convection. A key prognostic indicator of the intensity of deep convective events appears to be the convection depth of the previous year.

📢📈Check out our new paper showing the recent important warming/salinification of intermediate waters in NW Med and its influence on deep convection. Long-term observations are key! @OS_MOOSE @IlicoIr @Laurcopp1 @ego_gliderman @LoicHoupert @MIOceanologie

#Friday13th can also be lucky day ! Yesterday was a lovely break in confinement time, at sea off Toulon collecting the @OS_MOOSE monthly CTD near Albtatross @EMSOeu mooring (incl samples for oxygen, nutrients, carbon & cytometry) and zoopk net @MIOceanologie @OsuPytheas

And not so long time ago, we reported in this paper (from 2015), that those 500m thick warm blobs had temperature of about 13.8°C. They are now over 14°C... Telling us how quickly the Med has recently warmed up... and how important it is to sustain observations of the ocean!🌡️🌍

🌪️🌊👀Live from T00 glider: a beautiful eddy of warm/salty intermediate waters!
You can read more about those structures discovered thanks to establishment of the MOOSE glider endurance lines @ego_gliderman @GliderCNRS @Laurcopp1 @MIOceanologie @OsuPytheas

What a nice picture showing the complexity/relevance of physics-biology interactions in the ocean 🌪️🌱💚

Follow the new @OS_MOOSE glider mission along the T02 endurance line crossing the Gulf of Lion in the NW Med. Congrats to @GliderCNRS for smooth deployment! --> @ego_gliderman

📣Checkout our new results from PROVOLO project led by @IlkerFer --> Moored measurements in a key region of the Nordic Seas @BjerknesBCCR @Geofysen

La belle #pistescyclablestemporaires du boulevard du Prado, honteusement démontée après à peine une semaine en pleine nuit et sans concertation. #TransitionEcologique en marche arrière toute par la mairie de #Marseille 🤦‍♂️ #MunicipalesMarseille

Not exactly fresh off the press anymore. Our last paper with @IlkerFer about a poorly known flow of Atlantic Water along the Mohn Ridge sampled year-round by #oceanglider. Free to read. #openaccess @BjerknesBCCR @Geofysen @UiB

This month, I am excited and honored to start working as permanent CNAP researcher in such a beautiful working environment @MIOceanologie @OsuPytheas. Fieldwork in the Med @OS_MOOSE, teaching @univamu and cool science with ocean gliders (but not only) to come! @GliderCNRS

Coming from Thailand to visit Cape of Good Hope, would you take in your luggage bottles of your favorite soda? or count on amongs the strongest oceanic currents on earth? Plastic pollution has no limit. #StopPlasticPolluters #plasticfree

Within 3 days from visiting the old Fram in Olso to getting on board her brand new successor in Longyearbyen ! Crazy transition through time. @UiB @Geofysen @ResearchVessels @nansenlegacy @FramMuseum

World’s Biggest Oxygen Producers Living in Swirling Ocean Waters - Eos Oceanographers probe the impact of deep swirling vortices on phytoplankton.

Last paper under EOS spotlight :)

New paper out! #seaglider helped us learn more about a fascinating permanent eddy in the Lofoten Basin! @UiB @BjerknesBCCR #oceanography

New paper's out, enjoy and share :)

Big thanks to KV Sortland for the turnover of two #seaglider at 70N after 8 months at sea! @kystvakten @UiB @BjerknesBCCR #oceanography

Evidence supports trawling depth limit : Nature News & Comment via @NatureNews

L'avenir des océans profonds est entre nos mains, agissons! via @LeHuffPost