Beneficiary of ANR funding

Ifremer will contribute with 710 p-m (including 272 p-m for deep-sea environmental studies) during the 8 years of duration of the project and provide

technological and engineering expertise for seafloor instrumentation;
scientific expertise in marine geoscience and deep-sea environment;
in-house testing facilities (high pressure vessels; instrumented water tanks; etc.
naval facilities (vessels and submersibles);
highly trained and experienced personnel for conducting the marine operations and interfacing with marine telephone cable operators;
funds the part of the program on deep-sea eco-systems research.

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CNRS will contribute with 738 p-m by allocating personnel for research and engineering from:

the different research laboratories in solid earth, ocean and environmental sciences, involved in the project. These labs will act as « Mixed Research Units » (UMR in French, for « Unité Mixte de Recherche) established in partnership with other partner institutions. The UMRs are namely divided in two categories:
- those that will manage the equipment GeoAzur (Nice), Domaines Océaniques (Brest), LIENSs (La Rochelle), ISTERRE (Grenoble)
- and those that support the project with less that 10% of a researcher, GET Toulouse, Labo de Géologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Institut terre et Environnement de Strasbourg;
its technical division (DT-INSU);
the different Observatories (OSU - Observatoires des Sciences de l’Univers) involved in the project and presently operating in: Nice (OCA) ; Brest (IUEM) ; La Rochelle/Bordeaux (OASU) ; La Réunion (OVPF); Les Antilles (OVSM, OVSG); Strasbourg (EOST); Nantes (OSUNA); Toulouse (OMP); Montpellier (OREME); Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC) ; Grenoble (OSUG); Lyon (OSUL).

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IPGP will contribute with 554 p-m and will:

open 6 new, permanent positions (3 engineers including an Information Systems engineer, 1 technician, and 2 researchers), specifically allocated to REVOSIMA (recruitment in progress and MESRI annual concours);
host, operate and maintain part of the equipment acquired by the project within Elements 2, 3 & 5;
conduct advanced R&D for innovative instrumentation (optical seismometers) within Element 4;
provide expertise in long-term monitoring, based on the experience from the three French active volcanoes onshore (La Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique);
act as coordinator of REVOSIMA.

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IRD will contribute with 36 p-m

by allocating personnel from different mixed Research Units (UMRs), namely:
- GeoAzur (Nice),
- Domaines Océaniques (Brest),
- ISTERRE (Grenoble),
- GET Toulouse,
- LMV (Clermont-Ferrand),
- Géosciences Montpellier
by opening a full-time position for a research engineer in charge of maintaining and operating part the OBS pool that is hosted at GeoAzur

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BRGM will contribute with 35 p-m and will:

prepare the implementation of the cabled observatory by making links with end users, civil protection and local authorities through its regional direction based at Mayotte
manage the Magneto-Telluric (MT) component of the program in partnership with UMR Geosciences Ocean and subcontractors. Will operate on its own the land reference MT stations.

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ESEO will contribute with 16 p-m and provide the project with