IUEM is a major actor in French and European research in marine sciences. Benefiting from a privileged environment that brings together more than half of the national potential in this field, its teams are present on all major research issues and work on all oceans. All disciplines studying the marine environment and the activities that take place there are represented: physics, chemistry, biology, genetics ecology, biogeochemistry, geophysics, geology, geography, law, economics, etc.
7 research labs
Research work is carried out within its seven Joint Research Units (UMRs), four International Joint Laboratories (LMI), within the framework of projects and programmes funded in particular by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the European Union, and two International Associated Laboratories (LIA).
This work is the subject of publications in specialist journals or in specific media and scientific mediation.