# Science Is Fun: From Seabird Migration to Earth’s Movements
Welcome to *La science s’aMuse*, the science show co-produced by UM and Divergence-FM, which takes you on a journey through the Muse laboratory archipelago. This week, Manon Clairbaux, a researcher at CEFE, presents the largest study ever conducted on the effects of global warming on seabird migration. In the second half of the program, Sandrine Baudin and Christel Tiberi introduce us to the seismometer installed at the Restinclières estate by Géosciences Montpellier.
And for this next leg of our journey, we invite you to enjoy the open sea. Watch the waves roll in, breathe in the sea spray, and watch the seabirds that accompany us from one port to the next. Seagulls, of course, but also black-legged kittiwakes, puffins, little auks, and guillemots.
Our guest today is very familiar with all these species, as she has just published the largest study ever conducted on seabird migration in the journal *Global Change Biology*. The result of a collaboration between 25 research laboratories, this study examines the migratory movements of these birds. Where are their wintering grounds? What are their ecological characteristics? Does global warming have an impact on these areas? More specifically, scientists are wondering what benefits the North Atlantic seabirds might derive from compliance with the Paris Agreement—in other words, limiting global warming to 2 degrees. We’re discussing this today with Manon Clairbaux, a researcher at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology.
For more information:
- See the CNRS press release
- Clairbaux, M., Fort, J., Mathewson, P., et al. Climate change could reverse bird migration: trans-Arctic flights and high-latitude residency in an ice-free Arctic. Sci Rep 9, 17767 (2019).
- This fishing practice is starving seabirds
In the second half of the program, we’ll take you to the Restinclières estate. A few kilometers from the city, a strange device, located six meters underground, records ground movements from the Mediterranean Sea all the way to the far reaches of Japan. This device is a seismometer for the French Seismological and Geodetic Network, installed there as part of an agreement withthe OREME Observatory of Universe Sciences. And it is Sandrine Baudin and Christel Tiberi, from the Montpellier Geosciences Laboratory, who explain all of this to us.
Science is Fun—you’ve got the ticket, let’s go!
Co-production: University of Montpellier and Divergence-fm
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Aline Périault/Lucie Lecherbonnier
Reporting: Aline Périault/Lucie Lecherbonnier
Editing: Aline Périault
Director: Bruno Bertrand
Tune in to the show “A LUM LA SCIENCE” on Divergence FM 93.9
