The sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher of science Bruno Latour was at the EOST Hydro-Geochemical Observatory of the Environment on March 20th and 21st as part of his work on the “critical zone”, this thin veneer at the surface of our planet where rocks meet life. More
05.07.2018
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) […]
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
09.06.2018
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
01.06.2018
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, […]
24.05.2018
Sylvain Pasquet has been hired by OZCAR last February for a post-doc that should facilitate collaborations between the numerous OZCAR observatories and the equipment facility CRITEX. Sylvain comes back from a 2-year post-doc in the US where he worked, within the CZO program and in Yellowstone, on characterizing the architecture of the critical zone and […]
24.04.2018
CZ-TOP project seeks two postdoctoral and one Ph.D. candidate for positions at IPGP in France. Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), a new CZ research project, “CZ-TOP”, seeks to integrate stable isotope tracers with reactive transport and non-steady state hydrologic modeling to gain an improved understanding of […]
OZCAR research infrastructure will be attending the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, in Vienna (Austria) from April 9 to 13. Session : SSS3.5/GM3.10/HS11.51 Assessing the Critical Zone functioning and reconstructing its evolution, based on soils and sediments, interpreting the geochemical composition of soils and sediments with respect to provenance, palaeoenvironments and pollution (co-organized) https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/27066 Chemical […]
16.04.2018
This announcement is an open solicitation for applications by graduate students or postgraduates at US universities to receive funds for international travel to French Critical Zone Observatories during 2018. A similar program of research-related travel awards is being offered by France to support travel by their students to U.S. CZOs. A major goal of the […]
01.02.2018