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4th Cargèse Summer School : June 25th – July 7th 2018, Flow and Transport in Porous and Fractured Media

The 4th edition of the summer school on “Flow and Transport in Porous and Fractured media: Development, Protection, Management and Sequestration of Subsurface Fluids” will take place at the CNRS center in Cargèse (www.iesc.univ-corse.fr) from June 25th 2018 to July 7th 2018. The school is funded by CNRS (www.cnrs.fr), the University of Rennes 1 (www.univ-rennes1.fr), the European Geosciences Union (www.egu.eu) […]

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The XXII edition of Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2018) was held on June 3-7, 2018 in Saint Malo, FRANCE

Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR) is a series of conference dating back to 1976 organized every two years alternatively in America and in Europe. It has continuously promoted interdisciplinary approaches relying on excellence in hydrological sciences, mathematical and computational sciences.     Conference website

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OZCAR RI second meeting!

This meeting took place from April 3rd to 5th, 2018 at Villa Clythia, Fréjus. It had three aims: get to know each other better organize cross-disciplinary projects develop an internal governance that promotes synergies within OZCAR Detailled program attached below.   Programme_Oqg037amx_56_Frejus_Avril2018 Prog_Detail_Oqg037amx_56_Frejus_3-5Avril

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Seismic profile along the Strengbach !

Under the leadership of Marie-Claire Pierret, the OZCAR post-doc Sylvain Pasquet brought the CRITEX seismic equipment to the Strengbach CZO. Three 286-m long  seismic profiles were acquired during the three days of this campaign. They will help characterizing the regolith thickness on the North and South facing slopes and in the bottom of the valley, […]

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Building OZCAR’s community!

OZCAR is a scientific community designed around an instrumental park and long-term observation sites to explore the Critical Zone.

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Call for abstracts 3rd OZCAR TERENO Conference open until May 5th 2025

The 3rd OZCAR TERENO conference ‘Advancing Critical Zone science’ will take place from 29 September to 2 October 2025 at the FIAP in Paris, France. The conference will take place over 3 days, with a visit to the Orgeval catchment area of the ORACLE/IR OZCAR observatory on 29 September. The conference will combine keynotes in […]

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A look back at the annual OZCAR 2025 ‘Critical Zone and Health’ days!

The 9th Annual Meeting of the IR OZCAR took place from 10 to 13 March 2025 in Levier (Doubs). Seventy-five participants were present on site and around fifteen were able to contribute remotely. We would like to thank all the participants for the rich exchanges and lively discussions that took place throughout the day.Despite the […]

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Launch of the 1st hydrometry training course by OZCAR RI

This morning saw the start of the first hydrometry training course organized by the OZCAR research infrastructure in Lyon. The event brought together 18 participants – trainers, engineers and technicians from 9 OZCAR RI observatories – around the expertise of RiverLy‘s River Hydraulics team (INRAE, Lyon Villeurbanne). Over two days, participants will alternate between : […]

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OZCAR-CRITECH 2024 meetings

OZCAR-CRITECH meetings kick off! From today, the technical community of observatories will be getting together for the OZCAR-CRITECH meetings, the first event of its kind for OZCAR. Running until Wednesday 20 November in Écully, near Lyon, these days will feature oral and poster presentations, sensor and instrument demonstrations, and fruitful exchanges between participants. A key […]

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3rd OZCAR TERENO Conference 2025

3rd OZCAR TERENO Conference 2025

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2nd International Conference TERENO OZCAR – Bonn

In October 2021, we organized the first conference jointly organised by French network OZCAR, the French research infrastructure on “Observatoires de la Zone Critique” and German network TERENO, “ Terrestrial Environmental Observatories ” in Strasbourg, France. It was the first meeting of this kind in Europe aiming at bringing together scientists active in terrestrial system’s research. This […]

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FIELD EXPERIMENT AT FRASNE SITE/TOURBIERES OBSERVATORY

A week of multidisciplinary experimentation on the Frasne peat bog (Tourbières Observatory/OZCAR RI) 26 – 30 JUNE 2023 A multidisciplinary field campaign was organised on the Frasne site belonging to the Tourbières Observatory from 26th to 30th of June 2023, at the initiative of members of the OZCAR research infrastructure and the EQUIPEX + “Terra […]

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2nd TERENO OZCAR International Conference 2023

Dear colleagues, Abstract submission for the second international TERENO OZCAR conference to be held in Bonn, Germany, 25-28 September 2023 is open since 1 March 2023. We would like to remind you that the closing date is 1 June 2023. Information on session topics can be found on the conference website : https://www.tereno-conference2023.de/en We hope to […]

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3rd OZCAR Summer School 2023

The 3rd OZCAR Summer School takes place from Monday, 3rd July 2023 to Friday, 7th July 2023 at the PEP La Renardière, located in Aubure. All information are available in the OZCAR summer school website : https://ecolozcar.sciencesconf.org/ You can also discover the synthesis of the 2 last OZCAR summer schools in 2021 and 2022 in the OZCAR RI […]

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Visit of OTHU site of Yzeron watershed

From February 7 to 9, 2023, the INRAE center of Lyon Villeurbanne welcomed about thirty European researchers (twenty participants and ten trainers and organizers) for a workshop proposed by the European IR eLTER entitled “eLTER Software workshop – Introducing new tools”. This workshop allowed the participants to discover and learn about several tools for data […]