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Destination Europe
Geophysics
Marine Science
Michel Diament
CNRS-INSU
FRANCE
www.allenvi.fr
National Functions Coordinating and programming
research Managing infrastructures and
observation networks Organizing scientific foresights
Scientific objective Explore the Earth and
Universe to understand their origins and functionning and predict their evolution.
This demands observations at every time and spatial scales
INSU, National Institute for Earth Science and Astronomy is
one of the 10 institutes of CNRS (National Centre for
Scientific Research)
CNRS-INSU
4 Scientific sections
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ocean & Atmosphere
Continental Surfaces and Interfaces
Solid Earth
1 Technical Division 7 vessels, 3 aircrafts, instrumentation
2 geographical areas specifically targeted : Mediterranean Basin (MISTRALS) & Arctic
Associated to French Universities (48) and research /education institutions as
IPGP, Paris Observatory and OCA
Complementarity with partner organisations
CNRS-INSU
5
Means and Structure
9120 scientists, professors, engineers, technicians, administrative staff, docs & post-docs
63 joint research units (laboratories) in France
26 observatories (OSU)
3 international labs (Argentina, Canada, Chili)
Présentation Générale de l’INSU
OSU : Observatoire des
sciences de l’Univers,
CNRS-INSU
CNRS-INSU’s personnel distribution map
Research demands means
Answers to European calls, ERC… Regular calls of the French National Research Agency
(ANR) and from reserach institutions Significant means (equipment, research funds and
grants) through the national Excellence Programs Participation or management of Very Large Research
national or European Infrastructures: RESIF, Oceanographic fleet, IODP-ECORD, EMSO, Beam lights…
Strong involvment in space research (CNES, ESA..) Shared equipment (high pressure, pools of geophysical
equipment, analytical equipment…) National Observation Services (SNO), part of
international networks
For geophysics or ocean sciences, France is very active in the set-up and implementation of very large european infrastructures (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures,…) Observatories Oceanographic fleet Satellites ….
09/02/2012
European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory
http://www.emso-eu.org/
EMSO, a Research Infrastructure of the ESFRI Roadmap, is the European network of fixed seafloor and water column observatories constituting a distributed infrastructure for long-term monitoring of environmental processes
17 european countries + CANADA
New member :
- Israel (Oct. 2013)
Contacts :
- Russia
- Luxembourg
- Turkey
- Estonia
- Lithuania
ECORD in the New IODP– ECORD Membership
CNRS/INSU is incharge of the Ecord Managing Agency
Access to some very large instruments as : Synchrotron for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Synchrotron = large facility = an extremely powerful source of light from X-rays to Infra-Red. Beamlines: X-ray absorption & emission spectroscopies, diffraction, imaging, tomography, …
http://www.esrf.eu/about/synchrotron-science/synchrotron
Give access to molecular scale
Examples: fluid inclusions
Arsenic Speciation in Fluid Inclusions from Gold Deposits
As(OH)3 complex is more stable than predicted
James-Smith et al 2010.
Research also demands innovative sensors for new discoveries, as for instance what is currently under
development in France: • Cold atom interferometry based gravimeter
• Muons telescopes for « muongraphy »
• Drifting hydrophones complementary to fixed sea-bottom observatories.
• ….