The creation of the Scientific Centre of Monaco (CSM) in 1960 was motivated by the wish of Prince Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to provide the Principality of Monaco with the means to carry out oceanographic research and support governmental and international organizations responsible for the protection and conservation of marine life.
Since 1989, the CSM has specialized in studying the function of coralline ecosystems (tropical and Mediterranean) with regard to global climatic changes.
Marine biomineralization and symbiosis, key biological processes of these ecosystems, are studied, at molecular and cellular levels of the organism, by two research teams with complementary expertise:
- a Physiology and Biochemistry team
- an Ecophysiology team.
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" I sincerely hope that, by enlarging the horizon of oceanographic studies for you, I have been able to show you that marine spaces, so much more vast than terrestrial spaces, possess countless subjects for study among which biologists and afterwards philosophers, will find material and intellectual riches for humanity"
Albert 1st, Prince of Monaco
Conférence à la Société de l'Internat des Hôpitaux de Paris,
18th November 1905 |
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