The schooner Tara takes to the sea to understand the invisible people of the ocean

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The scientific schooner Tara Pacific when it left the port of Lorient, in the west of France, in 2016. (Illustrative image) © FRED TANNEAU / AFP

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

50 min

On December 12, 2020, the crew of the schooner Tara set off from Lorient for a two-year mission to study the functioning of the marine microbiome and its sensitivity to temperature rises or ocean pollution.

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Guests: 

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, director of the Tara Oceans Foundation

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, research director at CNRS, director of the Tara Oceans Research Federation

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, research director at CNRS and co-director of the Microbiomes Mission.

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