Entries by Sebastien Herve

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Fish acoustics for monitoring the effects of overfishing and climate change on food security in West Africa

An acoustic study, whose first author is a Senegalese former thesis student of Lemar, has revealed a notable northward shift in the spatial distribution of small pelagic fish species exploited in the waters of the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (northwest Africa). The results, covering a period of two decades of acoustic halieutic surveys conducted by sub-regional […]

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SILICON, from stardust to the living world

For several decades, the « Silicon Group » of the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM) has been studying the silicon cycle on an international scale. In 2020, it created the “Silica School”, whose major themes are summarized in this documentary film. Billions of years ago, silicon was created in the universe by stellar nucleosynthesis. It’s […]

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Do you NAWRAS ?

The NAWRAS project, coordinated by IRD (Marie BONNIN) and the University of Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech (Jihad ZAHIR), is a research project that proposes to use artificial intelligence to analyze “where, when and how the law protects the oceans.” The goal is to use language models (such as Chat GPT) and train them on texts […]