Les stations marines de la côte d'Opale

In 1874, Alfred Giard, professor of zoology at the Lille Faculty of science, created one of the first marine stations in Wimereux by renting a chalet in the dunes.

When it was attached to the Sorbonne in 1888, the movement was launched. The Lille Faculty of science soon appointed Paul Hallez to head a new station at Le Portel. Paul Sauvage creates the aquaculture station at Boulogne-sur-Mer. The Catholic institute of Lille founds the zoology laboratory at Ambleteuse. Up until 1939, no fewer than four stations are in operation simultaneously on the Opale coast, for the study of the marine environment.

During the 1960s, research resumed, evolved, and developed with Ifremer at Boulogne-sur-Mer and the Marine station and the Oceanology and Geosciences laboratory at Wimereux.

2024 celebrates one hundred and fifty years of history around the marine stations of the Opale coast.