We want to aknowledge all the organisms and persons who had made this University of the Sea possible and successfull:

-  the IPEV, French Polar Institute and its director, Mr Gérard JUGIE for our accomodations on board, as well as Mr. Yvon Balut , Chief of operation,
-  the French Ministery of National Education and Research, for their major participation to our flight ticket funding,
-  the LSCE, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (UMR CNRS/CEA/UVSQ) and more particularly Mr Carlo LAJ (chief scientist) for allowing us to participe to the Marco Polo II cruise,
-  the University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux 1, UFR des Sciences de la Terre et de la Mer and the affiliated Ecole doctorale) and the University of Western Brittany (IUEM, Ecole Doctorale des Sciences de la Mer et du Littoral) for their financial help, together with the Universities of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam), of Halifax (Dailhouse University) and of Shanghaï (Tongji),
-  the EPOC laboratory (Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques, UMR 5805) for hosting our web site, and more especially its director Mr Philippe BERTRAND.

  We would also like to thank Bruno Malaizé, Géraldine Sarthou, Jacques Déverchère, David Graindorge, and Karine Charlier for updating this web site in France, all the scientists who gave us lectures during these four weeks (Catherine Kissel, Nicolas Caillon, Sébastien Nomade, Sandra Catane, Ann Holbourn, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Markus Kienast, Hongbo Zheng, Jian Zhimin, Xavier Morin), and those who supervised us during the watches.