Actualites Archive - Monaco Explorations

Indian Ocean Expedition: two artists in residence.

Monaco

Indian Ocean Mission. The Committee met on Friday, May 6, 2022 at the Oceanographic Museum and auditioned six artists and finally chose two. They are Elsa Rigot and Rémi Leroy. After the call for residencies launched in November 2021, some sixty applications were examined and six artists were pre-selected in February for the final auditions.

February

“Alick and Albert” Special Jury Award at FIFO 2022

Papeete

In competition at the 19th International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival (FIFO) held in Papeete, French Polynesia, from February 5 to 13, 2022, the documentary “Alick and Albert” won a Special Jury Award.

January

Six nominations for “Alick and Albert”, the documentary film, in Australia

The documentary film “Alick and Albert” is one of three documentaries selected for the ASIN Awards 2021. It is competing in six categories.

December

Season’s Greetings!

Monaco

Monaco Explorations wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

December

The Future of Plastic Waste in Seychelles

Seychelles

Since 2020, the open innovation program “The Future of_ Plastic Waste” has aimed to implement practical solutions for recycling, transformation, and reduction of plastic waste in the Indian Ocean by supporting innovative and multi-stakeholder initiatives in Seychelles.

November

Call for an artist’s residence on board. Indian Ocean Expedition 2022

Indian Ocean

The Société des Explorations de Monaco is launching this call for expressions of interest for an artist’s residency on board the ship that will be chartered for its next expedition to the Indian Ocean, which is currently being prepared. This new expedition is the first part of the “Monaco Explorations” project approved as a contribution to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development 2021-2030.

October

Alick and Albert : the film in preview in St-Tropez

On Wednesday 13 October 2021, the documentary film “Alick and Albert”, directed by Douglas Watkins, opened the 23rd edition of the Festival du Cinéma des Antipodes in Saint-Tropez in the presence of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco and several personalities.

August

Better protection of marine megafauna through social networks and artificial intelligence

Scientists from three joint research units (MARBEC, ENTROPIE and LIRMM) have just published a study using social networks and artificial intelligence to identify charismatic species of the marine megafauna of New Caledonia: dugongs, turtles and sharks. This work, entitled “Leveraging social media and deep learning to detect rare megafauna in video surveys”, is published in the international journal Conservation Biology.

July

Gombessa 6 Cap Corse. Back to the surface in Monaco

20 days expedition to try and unravel the mystery of the corallogenic rings off Cap Corse! The Gombessa 6 expedition flotilla, composed of the support and assistance vessel Pionnier, the catamaran Victoria IV and the barge from the French National Institute of Professional Diving (INPP), arrived in the port of Monaco late on Monday 19 July. The four aquanauts: Laurent Ballesta, Antonin Guilbert, Thibaut Rauby and Roberto Rinaldi exited the “bathyal station” the next day, Tuesday 20 July at 6 pm, after completing their decompression cycle.

July

Gombessa 6: Cap Corse

Corsica

After Gombessa 5: Mediterranean Planet in July 2019, the “Gombessa 6: Cap Corse ” expedition, led by Laurent Ballesta and the Andromeda Oceanology team, is once again dedicated to the Big Blue. This new adventure to discover the deep sea, which began in May, is supported by the Principality of Monaco, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Monaco Explorations.

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