Under the ISblue scheme, Ms. Anvita U. Kerkar, DST-INSPIRE, SRF would be placed in Laboratoire d’Ecologie Pelagique (PELAGOS) at Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, Plouzané, France. She would be hosted by Dr. Aurore Gioux, PELAGOS, Ifremer and would be a part of the field and laboratory experiments to study the evolution and dynamics of phytoplankton blooms during late spring-early summer (July-September 2019).