It was the final meeting for the BiCOME project yesterday. Great to see everyone to discuss project results. Thanks to @ESA for hosting us.
This is not the end! More publications and outputs will be coming from the project in the next few months, stay tuned!

ACES alumni stories

Nadeeshani Gamage (Sri Lanka) graduated from our ACES programme in 2020 and is now at Nantes Université doing her PhD in diatom biotechnology!

Read more about Nadeeshani's ACES journey and advice for those applying for 2024 bit.ly/3HzBe50.

#Aquaculture

The semester at Nantes University is ending, and the ACES-STAR Aquaculture Master have completed the written exams they dreaded. looking forward to the dissertation thesis now: some will travel to the UK, Norway, Germany, the US, Czech Republic, Italy, Thailand and Australia

Happy New Year everyone!

Great news - applications for our ACES-STAR programme starting late August 2024 are NOW OPEN!

Find out everything you need to know about how to apply to Europe's top-rated #Aquaculture Masters over on our website emm-aces.org/apply

Meeting the French ambassador in Indonesia and the rector of Hasanuddin University in Sulawesi: an opportunity to promote Nantes Université research and Master's programmes such as the Erasmus Mundus ACES-STAR Aquaculture Master and the new Ecosystem and Marine Bioproduction fully taught in English

Agus from Hasanuddin University is preparing our Phantom 4 multispectral to fly over Eucheuma spinosum (denticulatum) cultivation plots. Great mission today, with flights at 3 30 50 and 300m (yes this is possible upon request)

Field trip in Punaga (Sulawesi, Indonesia) with our partners @Hasanuddin University: drone mapping macroalgae aquaculture: could we detect signs of ice-ice disease? A PHC Nusantara project.

🥳 Few days after the PhD defense of #MaryArnaldo , her first paper is now avaible! Congrats!
You want to know more about biofilm photobioreactor at lab scale, have a look here👇
authors.elsevier.com/a/1iDoX7sxn0jc…

Mise en ligne de l'article 'A technical adaptation? Shell dye extraction on the eve of the roman conquest in Gaul'
journals.openedition.org/paleo/8114
#dye #Purple
Daire Marie-Yvane Laurent Barillé CReAAH UMR 6566 CNRS Bretagne et Pays de la Loire Inrap

ONLINE Q&A! Join programme leader Prof Liz Cook and ACES students on Thurs 14th Dec at 12:15 (GMT) to learn more about our amazing two-year #Aquaculture Joint Masters Erasmus Mundus Association (EMA) programme and how to apply for 2024.

Sign up for access details 👉bit.ly/47DY6f3

Who came up with the idea during antiquity of using Ocenebra erinaceus and Nucella lapillus from Atlantic coasts to extract purple dyes as the Mediterranean with Hexaplex trunculus?

👉 rb.gy/h2vbh5

A collaboration with archeozoologists: thank you Catherine Dupont

Dr Jasper van Houcke from HZ University at Vlissigen was our guest scholar for the ACES-STAR Aquaculture Master: oyster and mussel aquaculture in the Netherlands: from off-shore experiments to sensory analysis

We are glad to welcome Dr Marnix Gorissen from Radboud University in the Netherlands presenting the research in aquaculture from his group to our ACES-STAR Aquaculture Master : transgenic zebrafish and crustacean physiology

Kicking off the European Commission-European Space Agency Earth System Science Initiative in Frascatti-Rome by being a geek over the rockets! Excited for a couple of days of Remote Sensing discussion from across Europe! @rsbe2nantesuniv @nantesuniv @laurentbarille @bicomeproject

We're excited to be at the EC-ESA Joint Earth System Science Initiative Workshop at European Space Agency ESRIN.

Presenting work from BiCOME and looking forward to networking and collaborating!

Find out more👉essi2023.esa.int

EO OPEN SCIENCE ESA Earth Observation European Commission

Presentation at #iocs2023 in Florida! In BiCOME, we demonstrated the potential of intertidal #seagrass biodiversity studies with #drones and ESA Earth Observation Sentinel-2 observations

Welcome David Jacinto from the Aquatic Research Network (ARNET-MARE) at the University of Évora, Portugal. He will exchange with our ACES-STAR Aquaculture Master and EBM students about the biological and economic feasibility of the aquaculture of the stalked barnacle (Pollicipes pollicipes)

Last Friday, I had the opportunity to participate in the seminars at the Horn Point Laboratory with a talk titled “From Poles to Propellers: Drones in Antarctic Research”, in which I discussed the use of sensors equipped on drones for research in Antarctic coastal areas.

Greek fish aquaculture reached 130000 tons in 2022 with sea bream and sea bass accounting for 96%. Many ACES-STAR Aquaculture Master of ACES JMD Erasmus Master are doing dissertations with our partner from Heraklion University to help the sector and innovate, like in this farm in Peloponnese

Thank you very much ΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ ΜΗΤΣΑΚΟΣ and Prof. Koumoudouros from the ACES-STAR Aquaculture Master Erasmus Mundus Master in Aquaculture for this very interesting visit to sea bream and sea bass farms in the Argolic Gulf