# Science Fun: From the migration of seabirds to the movements of the Earth
Welcome to La science s’aMuse, the science program co-produced by UM and Divergence-FM, which takes you on a cruise 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 part of the program, Sandrine Baudin and Christel Tiberi introduce us to the seismometer installed at the Restinclières estate by Géosciences Montpellier.
And for this new stage of our journey, we invite you to enjoy the open sea. Contemplate the movement of the waves, breathe in the sea spray, and watch the seabirds that accompany us from one port to another. Seagulls, of course, but also black-legged kittiwakes, puffins, little auks, and even guillemots.
Our guest today is very familiar with these species, having just published the largest study ever undertaken on seabird migration in the journal Global Change Biology. The result of a collaboration between 25 research laboratories, this work focuses on 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 compliance with the Paris Agreement, in other words, limiting global warming to 2 degrees, could have on North Atlantic seabirds. We discuss 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 residence in a sea-ice-free Arctic. Sci Rep 9, 17767 (2019).
- This fishing that starves seabirds
In the second part of the program, we 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 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. Sandrine Baudin and Christel Tiberi, from the Montpellier Geosciences Laboratory, explain it all 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
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