Romain grew up in a family of passionate humanists that care deeply about the oceans. He then naturally became a sailor as well as a scientist in molecular biology. As the General Manager of the Tara Expeditions Foundation, he shares his optimism and his knowledge wherever they can have an impact. Tara is a French sailboat built in 1989 for scientific research and environmental protection. Europe and plastic are Tara’s new challenge. Just to give a few examples, from April 2016 to November 2018, the Tara Pacific Expedition enabled the analysis of the complete biodiversity of coral reefs – from the gene to the ecosystem – and to better understand their adaptation capability to environmental changes. (enlever le point) due to human and climatic factors. At the end of May 2019, the Tara Océan Foundation launched the Microplastics Mission 2019, a new six-month mission on ten European rivers to fight the origins of plastic pollution.
