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To better assess and monitor ocean health and to expand the systematic, long-term sampling of marine microbiomes, the French Navy, Sorbonne University, and the Plankton Planet initiative have joined forces to launch the Mission Bougainville....

Nothing in Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s family background or place of birth suggested he would become a sailor. He was born on November 12, 1729, in Paris, on the site of the Rue du Temple in the parish of Saint-Merry, not far from Les Halles....

The mission will collect ocean microbiome data from remote areas that are rarely sampled, including the Southern Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Central Pacific, and numerous marine regions that are otherwise inaccessible for security reasons....

Au cours de ma préparation à la Mission Bougainville, j’ai participé à des formations pratiques sur l’étude et la médiation scientifique du plancton, en animant des ateliers avec le MNHN et en me familiarisant avec le microscope Curiosity....