The Grand Medals : award-winning theses

In partnership with the Academy of Sciences, the 5000 euros academic prize, is awarded each year to a young researcher, for thesis work carried out in a French doctoral school, in a discipline related to the sea or ocean, as well as for publications issued on the occasion of this work.

Awarded theses

Special prize 2025 : Nicolas SEON Determination of thermoregulatory strategies of marine vertebrates by oxygen isotopes: paleoenvironmental implications

2025 : José-Luis GARCIA-CORONA Physiological mechanisms involved in the contamination and long retention of the amnesic shellfish poisoning toxin, domoic acid, in the king scallop Pecten maximus

2024 : Charlène GUILLAUMOT Modelling the response of marine Antarctic species to environmental changes: methods, applications and limits

Special award 2023 : Adrian VAN KAN Critical transitions in turbulence
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2023: Charly DE MAREZ Dynamics of coherent mesoscale and submesoscale structures in the Arabian Sea
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Prix spécial 2022 : Alex AYET Flux of momentum at the air-sea interface: Theoretical approach to the coupling between turbulence and wind waves.
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2022 : Leandro NOLE EDUARDO Lighting up the dark side of the ocean: biodiversity and ecology of deep-sea fishes from the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic
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2021 : SIEGELMAN Lia, Ageostrophic dynamics in the ocean interior
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2020 : MAIRE Eva, Socio-ecological drivers of fish biomass on coral reefs : the importance of accessibility, protection and key species
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2019: PELLICHERO Violaine, Study of surface layer dynamics and surface-ocean interactions in the Southern Ocean under sea ice
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2018: DE LAVERGNE Casimir, Elements of the life cycle of Antarctic Bottom Water
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2017: THIEBAUT Andréa, Travels with the Cape Fools: social influences for food sourcing strategies, observed by video
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2016 : BARREYRE Thibaut, Dynamics and heat fluxes of the Lucky Strike hydrothermal field
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2015 : GOURGUET Sophie, Ecological and economicviability for the sustainable management of mixed fisheries
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2014 : COMEAU Steeve, Impact of future environmental conditions on pteropod thecosomes

Discours de S.A.S. le Prince Albert II de Monaco lors de la remise des Grandes Médailles et Prix de Thèse 2019

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