MESOAQUA European project : Deployment of the French-MEDIMEER mobile mesocosms in the Cretan Sea

The MESOAQUA European Project:

Deployment of the French-MEDIMEER mobile mesocosms in the Cretan Sea

(August & September 2011)

 The objective of the FP7 EU project MESOAQUA is to construct a network of European marine mesocosm facilities to advance the studies of future aquatic ecosystems from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. MESOAQUA offers a number of activities in aquatic systems during the period from 2009 to 2012 including.

List of participants to the deployment of the French-MEDIMEER mobile mesocosms in the Cretan Sea carried out in August & September 2011, in order of country:

France: Behzad Mostajir : Head coordinator of the mission, responsible of the LAMP Mobile Platform, and France principal investigator in MESOAQUA project ; Eric Fouilland, Emilie Le Floc’h, Sébastien Mas, Romain Pete, David Parin, Cécile Roques, Thibault Dinet, and Tsuneo Tanaka

Greece: Paraskevi Pitta : Principal collaborator and local coordinator of the mission, Greece principal investigator in MESOAQUA project ; Tanya Tsagaraki, Stella Psarra, Manolis Tsapakis, Anastasia Tsiola, Iordanis Magiopoulos, Stelios Fodelianakis

Norway: Paolo Simonelli

Sweden: Elin Lindohoff

Germany: Scarlett Sett, Monika Winder, and Jan Czerny

Spain: Elisabet Sa, and Marta Sebastian

Special thanks to Captain Manolis kokos and the staff of Philia oceanographic vessel of HCMR, as well as other collaborators.

Camera operator, editor, sound recorder and mixer:  Pierre Hennequin

Music: Benjamin Tissot

Production’s director:  Olivier Agussol

MESOAQUA copyright – 2012