Destination Europe Geophysics Marine Science · 3 international labs (Argentina, Canada, Chili) Présentation Générale de l’INSU OSU : Observatoire des sciences de l’Univers,

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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

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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.

• ….