AMLR2014 expedition

Philippe Pernet, from the Marine Biology Lab (ULB) is participating in the 2014 U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program onboard the RVIB Nathanial Palmer. Find out more in the vERSO project’s expeditions section!
BIOMAR - Université Libre de Bruxelles
BIOMAR - Université Libre de Bruxelles
Microbiology-related research

Philippe Pernet, from the Marine Biology Lab (ULB) is participating in the 2014 U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program onboard the RVIB Nathanial Palmer. Find out more in the vERSO project’s expeditions section!
This week, we are hosting another workshop to scope out the next steps for the Microbial Antarctic Resources System (mARS) , a followup project from SCAR’s Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (EG-ABi). The participants include Alison Murray (Desert Research Institute), Anton…

You can register now for the Microbes, Diversity and Ecological Roles session at the SCAR Open Science Conference , which will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from 23 rd August to 3rd September 2014 Most, if not all, Antarctic ecosystems are…

This week, we will be hosting a hands-on workshop to push the mARS project further, with Alison Murray (Desert Research Institute), Anton Van de Putte and Nabil Youdjou (biodiversity.aq project) The Microbial Antarctic Resources System (mARS) is envisioned as an…

A small team from the BIOMAR Lab set a research mission to the Bay of Portman, Spain. The team was composed of Philippe Pernet (technician), three master students (Valérie Rossez, Andrea Garvetto and Maxime Coupremanne) under the supervision of Bruno…

Tomorrow, we’re leaving for Portman, Spain for a sampling mission. We’ll be collecting samples for microbiology, ecotoxicology and habitat mapping. We’ll be using scuba diving and the Lab’s micro-ROV for this purpose. We hope to be able to screen the…