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In recent decades, the seas and oceans have been subject to special monitoring taking into account the socio-economic and ecological interests at stake. The detection and measurement of trace of chemical pollutants (such as hydrocarbons or pesticides) is the cornerstone of many oceanographic issues

Pollutions involving petroleum hydrocarbons are the most usual. Despite in situ treatments are encouraged by authorities on the basis of sustainability, they are limited by the difficulty to warrant a good contact between amendments and pollutants. Those limitations originate from preferential flows

Mercury (Hg) is considered as a major issue for the environment and human health because of its widespread occurrence in air, soils and waters. Even very low concentrations of Hg are dangerous, so that both the World Health Organization and the European Union have delivered guideline values. Hg tra

The possibility of building wireless measurement systems has opened a very intense activity in the field of environmental control and risks. Our daily environment consists of many toxic components, including carbon monoxide (CO), which can be the cause of fatal poisoning. A real need exists to devel

The contamination of the environment by pharmaceutical micropollutants is a wellestablished fact nowadays. These micropollutants contaminate surface water, soils, sediments and groundwater at concentrations ranging from ng.L-1 to µg.L-1 or even several hundred µg.L-1 in the most exposed areas. Regar

The objective of the FIRST project was to develop a prototype for the automatic analysis and processing of carbonate microfossils. These microfossils and in particular foraminifera have made it possible to discover the extent of climate change in the 20th century. These organisms, which range in siz

Based on an ambitious approach combining observations and modeling capable of linking local and global scales, the PolEASIA project aims to better quantify the distribution of pollutants (ozone and aerosols), their sources, their variability and their recent and future evolution. A particular attent

We propose to develop a pilot prototype of earthquake forecast model in Ecuador and northern Peru where major earthquakes are likely to occur in future. The novelty of the model is that it will integrate all existing and forthcoming knowledge on faults, including their seismic potential quantitative

Nitrogen protoxide (N2O) is a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), with an impact 300 times higher than carbon dioxide, contributing significantly to global warming. Microbial processes (nitrification or denitrification) in soils or water contribute significantly to the production of N2O. To date, the con

The need of water quality monitoring, in different environmental and health context submitted to european and national regulations, is still increasing. It gives rise to large sampling campaigns with spot sampling, handling, preservation, shipping, storing of samples and then time consuming laborato

This project aims to develop molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs), i.e. selective extraction adsorbents inducing a retention mechanism based on the molecular recognition of target compounds, to include them as a central element of an innovative and integrated strategy (analytical and bioanalytical ap

Monitoring the quality of ocean water is a major challenge with various social, economic and ecological implications. Traditional monitoring systems of water quality in the aquatic environments are rather expensive and based on an intensive exploitation of human resources (for sampling collection or

As a consequence of change in hydrological cycles and the increase of exposed goods, the risk of landslides is globally growing all over the world. As a consequence, short-time landslide prediction is a fundamental tool for risk mitigation. To this aim, real-time monitoring and interpretation method

Depending on the magnitude of their eruptions, volcanoes impact the atmosphere at various temporal and spatial scales. However, the volcanic source remains the major unknown to rigorously assess these impacts. This project, at the interface between volcanology and atmospheric sciences, aims at bette