World Oceans Day - Colloquium of June 8, 2023

World Ocean Day 

World Ocean Day is organised every year on 8 June by the United Nations. Its aim is to remind people of the importance of the role of the oceans for life on earth, and to make the general public aware of the means that exist to protect them.

On this occasion, the Armada, under the patronage of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development, the French National Commission for UNESCO and with the support of Sorbonne University, is organising a symposium on the protection of the oceans.

It will be held on 8 June 2023 at the Pavillon des Transitions on the quays of Rouen's right bank. You will be able to attend conferences on various themes such as the abysses, marine mammals, and the thousand-year-old history of Rouen and the Seine.

To attend, get your tickets via the following link: https://bit.ly/42ujX5w

At the transitions pavilion (ex H2O), Quai de Bois-Guilbert, right bank.

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: opening by

- Jean-Paul RIVIERE, President of the Armada,
- Christophe PRAZUCK, Doctor in physical oceanography and former Chief of the Navy, now director of the Institute of the Ocean Alliance Sorbonne University,
- Nicolas MAYER ROSSIGNOL, President of the Rouen Normandy metropolis and Mayor of Rouen,
- Bertrand BELLANGER, President of the Department of Seine-Maritime,
- Hervé MORIN, President of the Normandy region

9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: A new frontier of science: the deep sea

     Discovering the seabed and its dynamics

By Sylvie Leroy, Paris Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTeP) Sorbonne University/CNRS

     The lush life of the abyss

By François Lallier, biological station of Roscoff Sorbonne University/CNRS

     Who owns the bottom of the sea?

By Christophe Prazuck, Director of the Ocean Institute of the Sorbonne University Alliance

Break: 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Marine mammals: from the open sea to estuaries

     Of cetaceans and men; the challenges of sustainable coexistence

By Laurène Trudelle, project manager for the Whale-Watching program, MIRACETI association

     Come and listen to the songs of the whales

By Olivier Adam, bioacoustician, professor at Sorbonne University, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Institute Sorbonne University/CNRS

     When cetaceans replay Romeo and Juliet

By Jean-Luc Jung, head of the Dinard marine station, professor at the National Museum of Natural History and Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity ((ISYEB)), National Museum of Natural History/CNRS/Sorbonne University/EPHE/ University of the West Indies

Lunch break: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.: Rouen, the Seine and the Ocean, a millennial history

     The port of Rouen, 2000 years of evolution

By François Wender, former hydrographer at the Grand Port Maritime de Rouen

     From Norðmenn to the Normans: a story of successful integration

By Alessia Bauer, director of studies at the Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) Scandinavian studies

     The Seine, a path to the world

By Olivier Chaline, Professor of History at the Faculty of Letters of Sorbonne University

Break: 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: speech by 2 companies active in protecting the oceans and the planet:

     Le Canopée, represented by Arthur LANDORMY, operating manager,
     AXA Climate, represented by Antoine DENOIX.

5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: conclusion by Yvon ROBERT, Honorary Mayor of the city of Rouen and Vice-President of the Armada; and Christophe PRAZUCK, director of the Ocean Institute of the Sorbonne University Alliance.