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La Rochelle Aquarium: A scientific reference
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Our scientific partnerships
La Rochelle Aquarium is a research centre attended every year by researchers and PhD students. This research is conducted with the technical and scientific participation of the Aquarium.
La Rochelle Aquarium is a research centre attended every year by researchers and PhD students. This research is conducted with the technical and scientific participation of the Aquarium.
Just some of the research subjects we’ve helped with
2008 - 2012: “The Allis Shad, Alosa alosa, an endangered species in the Gironde.”
A pool-based growth and maturing programme for reproducing shads. In partnership with the French public agricultural and environmental research institute, CEMAGREF.
A pool-based growth and maturing programme for reproducing shads. In partnership with the French public agricultural and environmental research institute, CEMAGREF.
2008 - 2011: “Study of the influence of sounds on the sexual maturing of young clownfish”.
Eric Parmentier (University of Liège) and Jean Paul Lagardère.
Eric Parmentier (University of Liège) and Jean Paul Lagardère.
2008: “Study of marine paleotemperatures using oxygen isotopes in the teeth of sea bream and dogfish.”
Emmanuelle Puceat (University of Dijon), Nausicaa, Lyons Aquarium (“Revised O18Phosphate-water fractionation equation from fish raised in controlled environment”.)
2007: “Kinematics of fast start swimming in a pelagic fish, the mackerel Scomber scombrus .”
Christel Lefrançois, University of La Rochelle.
Our scientific exchanges
La Rochelle Aquarium is a founding member of the French Union of Aquarium Curators (UCA), and a member of the European Union of Aquarium Curators (EUAC)
The Aquarium also takes part in ongoing informal discussions at annual conferences in which the scientific team makes a contribution:
Monaco, 2000: “The New Aquarium in La Rochelle” and “Leatherback turtles on the French Atlantic Coasts – Scientific findings and public awareness”
Lisbon (2004): “Tuning into fish”
Valencia 2009: Presentation of “Surgery on broken jaws in large moray eels”,
Presentation of “Breeding and rearing of Anisotremus virginicus”.
The Aquarium also takes part in ongoing informal discussions at annual conferences in which the scientific team makes a contribution:
Monaco, 2000: “The New Aquarium in La Rochelle” and “Leatherback turtles on the French Atlantic Coasts – Scientific findings and public awareness”
Lisbon (2004): “Tuning into fish”
Valencia 2009: Presentation of “Surgery on broken jaws in large moray eels”,
Presentation of “Breeding and rearing of Anisotremus virginicus”.
The Aquarium and its Research and Care Centre for Sea Turtles (CESTM) also hold a wide range of scientific debates with:
G.T.M.F. (French Sea Turtle Group): conferences and data sharing.
The French Herpetological Society: annual congresses, publications.
The Charente-Maritime Natural Science Society: publications.
International Sea Turtle Society: conferences (Brisbane congress, etc.)
The Herpetology Observatory of the Aranzadi Science Society (Donostia-San Sebastián): conferences, publications.