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Space-based Observations of the ice Sheets: Ice mass changes evaluated from 2013 to present. – SOSIce
Sea level rise has become a challenge facing society due particularly to the ice sheets. The mass loss of the ice sheets is due to increased surface melt runoff and outflow of ice associated with current climate warming. Here, we propose to improve our understanding of the dynamic component. Indeed, the ice discharge modulated by changes in ice velocity and thickness changes remains the largest uncertainty in the current and future contribution of the ice sheets to sea level rise.
Ruling on Nature. Animals and the Environment before the Court – RULNAT
ANGLAIS<br />The project focuses on how nature-related issues are brought before law courts; how the environment and animal protection are handled at judicial level by lawyers, activists and the state; how nature is ‘judicialised’ and ‘governed’ through the judiciary in different countries, and how the global debate on acknowledging some kind of rights to nature and animals is implemented in actual litigations.
Confined Lewis Acid/Base – Co-LAB
Use of endohedral functionalized molecular cavity to create frustrated Lewis pairs
Strong and Tunable Zinc(II) Cationic Lewis acids: synthesis and use in selective Catalysis – Tu-Zin-Cat
The present project aims at: 1) the development of a broad family of Zn(II)-based (organo-)cations with tunable and controllable Lewis acidity, primarily through the coordination (or absence of coordination) of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand(s) ; 2) the study of such panel of Zn(II) cations for tailored, sustainable and selective catalytic transformations using Zn(II) cations with finely tuned Lewis acidity as catalysts.
Plankton: biological pump of contaminants in marine ecosystems (CONTAMPUMP)? – CONTAMPUMP
Study of the mechanisms of accumulation of contaminants in marine organisms from the plankton at the base of their food webs.
Stabilization process in marine surface robotics inspired by swimming snakes – SSSNAEQ
A new generation of robots inspired by the swimming of aquatic snakes has recently emerged in academic contexts. Thanks to their exceptional manoeuvrability, they could intervene urgently in complex situations. However, despite this potential, their surface stability is too precarious. The SSSNAEQ project aims to remove the scientific barriers to surface instability by taking inspiration from snakes,
Phase-space GRANULation in fusion plasmas – GRANUL
The efficiency of future fusion reactors, such as tokamaks, depends on our understanding of turbulent processes, in order to control them. In the core of the 150 million degrees plasma, we expect a new kind of turbulence, characterized by the presence of many sub-structures, which trap charged particules.
Dilute quantum droplets of potassium – Droplets
Our project deals with the creation and the study of a new type of quantum liquid droplets in yet dilute ultracold atomic samples of Potassium 39. Their existence emerges because of quantum fluctuations in a mixture of two Bose-Einstein condensates for which the overall mean-field energy cancels because of attractive interspecies interaction. The system offers a unique opportunity to quantitatively study beyond-mean field effects dominating the dynamics of the system.
Enhanced Neutrino Tagging and Energy Reconstruction – ENTER
The project aims at developing a new technique to study neutrino oscillation. So far the properties of the neutrino are measured relying uniquely on the interaction process. We propose to complement these measurements by using the production processes. This extra information would allow to reach unprecedented neutrino energy resolutions. In addition it allows to follow each neutrino from creation to detection and thus removes beam composition uncertainties.
S5: Synchronous Slow Slip & Seismic Swarm – S_5
Catching, modelling and understanding Slow Slip and Seismic Swarms along the Andean subduction in Ecuador, Peru and Chile
