Projects :: UMR ENTROPIE

The CALIBIOME project aims to propose calibrated methods for better knowledge and monitoring of coastal marine biodiversity. It also aims to improve knowledge on the maintenance processes and resilience potentials of marine animal communities.

Calibiome Project

The objective of CARIOCA is to identify the genotypic and phenotypic traits that allow certain coral species to survive and reproduce in waters naturally enriched in CO2

CARIOCA Project

The project has three specific objectives: (1) To identify strategic management orientations for the crab fishery in Madagascar. (2) To define and implement a sustainable management of the fishery through a collective approach. (3) To enhance the Malagasy scientific expertise and capacities in the field of sustainable fisheries.

CORECRABE Project

The objective of this project is to anticipate the effect of climate change on the dynamics of Acanthaster infestations and eventually develop/optimize existing vinegar injection control strategies.

CLIMACANTH 2 Project

This project, with a regional vocation, aims first of all to develop new data on the future climate (by 2100) and to analyze the sectoral impacts, an essential basis to facilitate the formulation of adaptation plans to climate change in Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.

CLIPSSA Project

CoralCare aims at understanding gene functions and pathways that lead to thermal tolerance in corals and help corals adapt to warming oceans, using cutting-edge CRISPR genome-editing. The project will be tackled by: (1) scaling-up the CRISPR/Cas9 method for high-throughput gene editing during the short annual coral spawning, and establishing the CRISPR/dCas9 method for gene regulation in corals; (2) editing corals using the two CRISPR methods to test the function of candidate genes.

CORALCARE Project

The objective of the project is to propose a training workshop on "open science" with a component on the management of research data and an initiation to their processing. This workshop will be open to students and researchers and in particular to members of the MIKAROKA International Mixed Laboratory (UMR ENTROPIE, UMR MARBEC, CNRO, IH.SM) interested in the marine reef domain of Madagascar. The management of research data is an issue that is not yet well addressed in university training in Madagascar. However, its necessity is increasingly recognized, especially in the context of research reproducibility, data management plans and the recent multiplication of work related to the emergence of artificial intelligence.

DONNEES Project

The objective of the ELADE project is to (1) characterize the enrichment pathways in the Poé lagoon, which are likely to induce algal blooms in this sector, and define their diversity and dynamics, (2) propose decision support tools to anticipate or control these phenomena.

ELADE Project

PredICTropiC (Predicting Impacts Caused by Tropical Cyclones) is a website developped as part of the EURISTIC project in 2021. It aims at monitoring and forecasting impacts on forest vegetation due to Tropical Cyclones (TCs) over the South West Pacific (SWP) basin.

EURISTIC Project

GAIA is an interdisciplinary project that evaluates the sustainability of socio-ecosystems in semi-enclosed atolls based on the exploitation of the clam resource, in a context of climate change.

GAIA Project

From samples collected from stranded individuals or studied during tagging missions, this research project will use molecular biology techniques to study the genetics and trophic ecology of the New Caledonian dugong population.

GRASS Project

This project is part of the Southern Ocean Persistent Organic Pollutants Program (SOPOPP) and aims to increase the understanding of climate and pollution-induced ecosystem changes in Antarctica.

HWSP Project

L'objectif de ce projet est de mettre à jour les agents de terrain du Vanuatu Fisheries Department pour évaluer quantitativement le blanchissement, réaliser des bouturages et transplantations de coraux, et lutter contre les dommages causés par les acanthasters, organisé autour d’ateliers pratiques et théoriques réalisés à la fois en Nouvelle-Calédonie et au Vanuatu

Projet KOREL

This project aims to bring together all the actors and users of the island to save these species on the verge of extinction, highly threatened by introduced predators and urban light pollution.

LIFE+Pétrels Project

Using isotopic, physiological and chemical analysis techniques, the MACADAM project aims to understand the interactions between scleractinian corals, microplankton and planktonic diazotrophs in the context of climate change.

MACADAM Project

ManaCo, "Modern tools for innovative coral reef MANAgement and COnservation" is an international network of coral reef actors bringing together local communities, volunteers and stakeholders with scientists to improve the conservation of coral reefs.

ManaCO Network Project

MARECO was born from the collaboration between scientists wishing to transmit their knowledge for a better management of coral reefs. The kit contains three educational games and a booklet for educators to raise awareness of the fragility of this ecosystem among children aged 5 to 11. It is also used as a research tool on several sites (Vanuatu, Madagascar, Reunion, Mayotte...)

MARECO teaching toolbox

The objective of this project is to set up a perennial monitoring of the state of health, structure and dynamics of scleractinian coral communities around Madagascar

Monitoring of coral communities in Madagascar Project

The main objective of the PhD project is to better understand the role of the structural complexity of coral reefs in the structuring and dynamics of its benthic communities from the quantitative analysis of 3D models by photogrammetry.

Photogrammetry Project

L’objectif général du projet de recherche PRESENCE est d’étudier les pressions qui s’exercent sur les écosystèmes marins, récifaux et lagonaires calédoniens, et plus précisément leur devenir, intensité et répartition spatiale.

PRESENCE Project

The main objective of the project is to increase the capacity of the National Meteorological Services of the countries concerned in forecasting and impact on local communities of coastal flooding risks. Also, the project allows the integration of French territories (New Caledonia) in the implementation of the Regional Coastal Alert Bulletin Network.

R2BAC Project

ReefTEMPS is a network of sensors of temperature, pressure, salinity and other observables in the coastal domain of the South, West and South West Pacific, operated by UMR ENTROPIE. ReefTEMPS is a National Observation Service (SNO) part of the French research infrastructure "littoral and coastal environments" IR ILICO.

ReefTEMPS Project

The general objective of the RESCUE project is to capitalize on historical information collected during marine mammal strandings and to facilitate the capture of data collected by the various stakeholders.

RESCUE Project

This project aims at promoting a conservation strategy that accounts for the adaptive potential of corals against bleaching.

SABLE Project

The Score-Reef project proposes to analyze databases on benthic and fish assemblages, from international monitoring and implemented in the Overseas Territories

SCORE-REEF Project

L'objectif de ce travail est d'identifier les signatures des rivières qui sont d'importants vecteurs de transport de sédiments mais également d’éléments dissous et leur devenir dans les panaches.

Projet SEARSE

The Sexy Singing project seeks to address the question of how sexual and cultural selective forces drive the complex song display of the humpback whale.

Sexy Singing Project

SIREN Project

The SUBSISTANCE project aims to develop (i) an updated reference list of marine invertebrate species currently consumed by coastal communities in the region, based on in situ analyses of fishermen's catches; (ii) an automated tool for the identification of fished species, based on pattern recognition techniques using artificial intelligence (deep learning).

SUBSISTANCE Project

SuperNatural aims at understanding the ability of coral reefs and associated species to resist climate change.

SuperNatural Project

A preliminary study, aiming to clarify the role of inter-species assemblages in the face of increasing water temperature, revealed that the association of the corals Pocillopora damicornis and Acropora cytherea with the clam Tridacna maxima, results in a systematic antifouling effect and the death of the clams when water temperature increases. This project aims to reveal the source and nature of the molecule(s) responsible for these effects.

Syntox Project

The objective of TSUCAL is to update the tsunami hazard assessment tools in New Caledonia to improve the population warning system

TSUCAL Project

WHERE Project

Projet de sensibilisation autour du dugong et son habitat en Nouvelle-Calédonie

Science en herbe

Monitoring of the long-term dynamics of the coral reefs around Moorea and study the ecological processes that determine their resilience capacity

CORAL REEF RESILIENCE - MOOREA

Study of the birth of new coral colonies, called coral recruitment, a key process for the resilience of coral reefs.

Coral Recruit - New Caledonia

Reflecting on solutions for better academic publishing practices

Projet : Sustainable Academic Publishing

The objective of the Track Changes project is to evaluate the response of coastal marine ecosystems to global changes, using the unique coastal system of New Caledonia as a study model.

Projet Track Changes

Projet PopNCO

This project focuses on better understanding and modeling these aspects for lagoons with contrasting ocean openings. The MANA project should contribute to a better management of the pearl farming activity in the atolls and islands of French Polynesia and the Cook Islands.

MANA project

SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO THE MANAGEMENT OF CORAL REEF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

SYNERGY Project