Network of Marine Stations And Observatories: Monitoring And Benthic Database For The French Mainland Coasts Since 1960

Resomar is a French national network of marine stations and observatories for exchanging and collaboration on scientific projects, studies and monitoring programmes. In 2007, the CNRS/INSU launched a programme with a view to giving new life to RESOMAR (formerly RNSM and then RNSLM), and to made it a strategic tool for enhancing coastal marine biology studies at a national level. This network has been given the task of scientifically collating and exploiting biological databased relating to the components of benthic and pelagic ecosystems on the French coast.