Earth System Science Theme Projects

Coordinators : Marc Benedetti, Jean-Philippe Croué

January 2024 - December 2027

National partnership

Post-FIRE pollutants mobilisation into surface water resources

This multi-faceted approach aims to fully understand the environmental consequences of wildfires and their impact on the contamination of water resour...

Coordinators : Julien Bouchez

September 2023

Campaign and mission, European partnership

PALAVAS: Present and pAst weathering fLuxes from tropicAl Volcanic islAndS

On the geologic time scale, chemical weathering of silicate rocks is the largest sink for atmospheric CO2. It has been suggested that the weathering o...

Coordinators : Julien Bouchez, Marc Benedetti

October 2022

International partnership outside Europe

TOF-COL

The formation of nano-sized (between 1 nm and 1 µm) particles is one of the most under-constrained processes of soil formation, while their export by ...

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez, Conor A. Nixon

July 2022 - December 2023

International partnership outside Europe

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Guaranteed Time Observer cycle 1: Titan Climate, Composition and Clouds

We focus on the extremely broad capability of the combined JWST instrument suite to advance our understanding of Titan’s gases, hazes, condensates (cl...

Coordinators : Frederic Moynier

January 2022

National partnership

MAMI - Medical Applications of Stable Isotopes

Elements such as Cu and Zn play critical roles in normative brain function, and thus their dysregulation is intrinsically linked to neurodegenerative ...

Coordinators : Antoine Lucas

January 2022

SIERRA - remote-SensIng modEling from aRchived glacieR imAges

This a technical project which aims at developing new algorithms in order to model sensor from archived images acquired during the 20's century. We wi...

Coordinators : Philippe Lognonné, Pierre Simoneau

June 2021 - August 2025

Venus-Earth Atmospheric Monitoring for Seismicity (VeAMOS)

At the beginning of the 21th century, the Earth ocean remains a territory where the deployment of dense seismic network is extremely challenging, due ...

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier

January 2021 - December 2025

National partnership

ANR project : 3D radiative transfer in cloudy planetary atmospheres: applications to Titan, Venus and Mars

The main objective of this project is to develop a full 3D radiative transfer (RT) model in spherical geometry for the study of horizontally heterogen...

Coordinators : Marc Benedetti

September 2020 - August 2023

Fe-Mn oxides and trace element dynamics in Chinese red soils

This project seeks to identify the source and speciation of toxic metals (Cr and Cd) associated with iron oxides in soils from southern China

Coordinators : Marc Benedetti

September 2020 - August 2023

National partnership

Uranium speciation and competition between organic matter, calcium and carbonates

The project will quantify the evolution of the proportion of U(VI) associated with MON as a function of MON types, total U concentration and selected ...

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez

January 2020

National partnership

APR CNES: Development of super-resolution mapping methods for Icy moons: Applications to Titan and future observations of Ganymede and Callisto by ESA's JUICE mission

Preparing the forthcoming JUICE mission by benefiting from super-resolution mapping methods developed for Cassini/Huygens data. JUICE mission aims ...

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez

January 2020

National partnership

CNES Research project: Dragonfly landing site characterization on Titan: geological and climatic history on the region of the Selk crater

Our project aims at implementing an original methodology coupling information extraction on the nature of Titan's surface (analysis of Cassini-Huygens...