The Institute for ocean sciences draws on a network of cutting-edge scientific and technology platforms, giving our researchers and students access to facilities and expertise essential for conducting world-class research globally.
General oceanography
- Sea Atmosphere Service (SAM) - MIO
- Scientific Diving Service - OSU Pythéas
- Marine resources - DT INSU/CNRS
- European Centre of submarine technologies ((CETSM) - IFREMER
- Mediterranean Provence submarine laboratory (LSPM) - CPPM.
A submarine platform including the deployment of cables and junction boxes (including the MEUST infrastructure), housing the ANTARES telescope, the KM3NeT/ORCA detector and new instrumentation for studying the marine environment (NUMerEnv).
Experimental, simulations
- Grande Soufflerie Air-Eau de Luminy (air-sea interaction facility) (LASIF) - OSU Pythéas IRPHE
- Experimental culture (Culture PTF) - MIO
- Marine environment chemistry analytical platform (PACEM) - MIO
- Water tank installations - LMA
- Marine bioinformatics and genomics (OMICS) - MIO
- Macrophyte facility (MACROPHYTES) - MIO
- Molecular biology (SCBM) and Chemical ecology and metabolomics (SCECM) - IMBE
Imaging and virtual reality
- Automated microscopy (MicroAutomate) - CEREGE
- Imaging and microscopy (MIM) - MIO
- Flow cytometry (PRECYM) - MIO
- Virtual and augmented reality for oceanography - IFREMER (Inov-BioMedchange project submitted to CPER)
Marine chemistry, geochemistry
- Stable isotopes (PANISS) - CEREGE
- Natural and artificial radioactive isotopes (SRTE) - IRSN
- Organic geochemistry (UGO) - CEREGE
- Chemical ecology and metabolomics (SCECM) - IMBE
- Marine chemical and geochemical analysis (PACEM) - MIO
- Isotope and nuclide geochemistry - CEREGE
- PICA infrared characterisation platform - CPPM
- PRAX Radon - Xenon platform - CPPM
Data science
- HPC High-performance computing cluster - OSU Pytheas
- High-Performance Hybrid Computing platform - CPPM including a "Tier-2" grid node at the LHC and the M3AMU hybrid computing resources project developed with CCIAM (Centre de Calcul Intensif d'Aix Marseille).