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Septentrion Environnement on a mission with WWF France!

WWF France is embarking on a brand new field mission: the Odyssey of Marine Protected Areas. In France’s Mediterranean region, almost 50% of waters have protected status. Yet only 0.2% of them are effectively protected by strong safeguards. With the help of our WWF sailboat ambassador, the Blue Panda, and a team of scientific divers, we’re setting off on an expedition across all the Mediterranean’s marine protected areas, to highlight the benefits of their existence, but also their limitations.

Our aim? To increase strong protection from 0.2% to 10%. Together, we are the solution.

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At the end of February 2020, we returned exhilarated by our stay in Oran as part of our #twinning3d cultural exchange educational project (Oran/Marseille). Over the course of a year, students from the Lycée “École et Loisirs” and the Lycée des Calanques produced and shared the results of their #photogrammetry field surveys, which culminated in 3D reconstructions of objects from the coastal and underwater cultural heritage of the City of Oran and the City of Marseille.

Putting knowledge into practice to answer questions about the study or management of our shared natural and cultural heritage, exercising reasoning, rigor and teamwork skills: these are just some of the learning opportunities made possible by collective projects of this kind.

More than ever, Septentrion Environnement continues to work on such projects with our partners around the Mediterranean, driven by these universal values of exchange, friendship and transmission for future generations and the common good.

Thank you to all our partners involved in #twinning3d, who share this dynamic and without whom this project would not have been possible.

Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Lycée des Calanques, École privée “École et loisirs”, Association Chebec, Musée subaquatique de Marseille, Musée Zabana Oran, Laboratoire LIS / CNRS

For 3 years now, our team has been carrying out annual assessments of fish populations in various parts of the Mediterranean as part of the “Odyssey of Marine Protected Areas” project supported by WWF France. The aim of these missions is to promote the existence and creation of strong protection zones within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). To achieve this, fish visual census are carried out and analysed to provide useful data to managers. In September 2023, we were on assignment in the Lastovo Archipelago Natural Park (Croatia) on the Adriatic coast. The results of this study will be used to advise on the creation of new strong protection zones within this MPA.

This tutorial is intended for the trainers of the citizen science program CIGESMED for divers. This teaching support may help the training of volunteer divers in the observation of the coralligenous habitat, to contribute to the collection of data useful for understanding and monitoring one of the most beautiful seascapes in the Mediterranean Sea.

A tutorial to learn how to apply the CIGESMED for Divers Participatory Science protocol, in order to characterize the coralligenous biocenosis and detect potential threats to its good ecological status.

A tutorial to learn how to apply the “Fish Visual Census” Participatory Science protocol: identification and counting of target fish species.

A tutorial to learn how to apply the Participatory Science protocol “Coral Alert!”, in order to detect the effects of seawater warming on corals and gorgonians.

Last of the series of 3 tutorials dedicated to photogrammetry with the most stylish step: image processing and model creation! We saw before what photogrammetry was and how to take shots to make a 3D model. Here, we learn to model.

The video is produced as part of the TWINNING 3D project led by Septentrion Environnement and the Calanques High School (Marseilles, France), initially classes planned in the classroom but finally transcribed on video because of the health crisis linked to the COVID-19 epidemic.

In this second photogrammetry tutorial, we tackle the shots: how to do that, which are the ideal light conditions, etc.

The video is produced as part of the TWINNING 3D project led by Septentrion Environnement and the Calanques High School (Merseilles, France), initially classes planned in the classroom but finally transcribed on video because of the health crisis linked to the COVID-19 epidemic.

In this video, you will learn the basics of photogrammetry: what is this technique that seems obscure, what it can be used for.

The video is produced as part of the TWINNING 3D project led by Septentrion Environnement and the Calanques High School (Marseilles, France), initially classes planned in the classroom but finally transcribed on video because of the health crisis linked to the COVID-19 epidemic.