Thanks to a strong research effort, Ifremer has developed solid references in the various marine sciences et techniques over more than 30 years.
The Ifremer-EDROME Carnot institute perimeter is focused on the field of mineral and energy resources specific skills.
Know-how and technology have been developed for partnership research with industrial partners.
Ifremer-EDROME scientific and technical teams belong to 5 departments and include more than 190 staff members, who develop a strong expertise, propose innovations, offer an excellent capacity to handle multidisciplinary research projects, promoted by complementary skills available on a same campus.
A strong partnership has been established, at different levels, with:
• university teams, French and foreign research institutes;
• industrial companies: oil operators, engineering companies, equipment providers,
service companies and certification authorities.
This is being further strengthened through participation in regional (French "pôles de compétitivité" clusters "Mer" Bretagne and PACA…), national (ANR, GDR, Clarom…), european (networks…) and international (USA, Canada, Japan, China, …) groups.
Research programme
Ifremer-EDROME main topics and concerns deals with mineral and energy resources, natural risks and understanding of climatic changes, which all fit with an important demand from society .
Research work related to the «mineral and energy resources: sedimentary process and impact on ecosystems» programme are performed by 5 departments (Studies of Deep Ecosystems, Testing and Technology Research, Marine Geosciences, Ships and On-board Equipment, Instrumentation Technology) who have specialised laboratories and large testing facilities (test basins, hyperbaric tanks) and have access to sea facilities (ships,
submarines…). The performed researches cover the knowledge of phenomena, their modelling and technological developments.
Main facilities
- Oceanographic fleet equipment
- Oceanographic campaign results
- Data collections
- Sea bottom seismometers (OBS), micrOBS, penetrometer, pressiometer…
- Seismics and very high resolution cartography, flexible penetrometer, carrots and sedimentary analyses (multi-parameter bench and geotechnics, scanner)
- Deep wave basin in Brest
- Free surface flume tank in Boulogne-sur-Mer
- In-situ marine testing site
- Acoustic pool
- Hyperbaric Caissons
- Mechanical and climatic test facilities
- Metrology Laboratory
- Optics Laboratory
- Physico-chemical analyses Laboratory
- Prototype hall
Skills and know-how
- Geophysics and geodynamics : geological reconstructions, process, multi-scale approach
- Stratigraphy, sedimentary, paleoclimatic, hydrodynamic process and instabilities
- Data treatment (bathymetry, imaging, reflection seismics), SIG
- Submarine acoustics, closetobottom seismics
- On-board architecture and electronics
- Benthic ecology
- Hydrodynamics and meteocean : Modelling, statistics, test basin
- Behaviour and protection of materials and structures in marine environment
- Design of mechanical marine systems
- Submarine optics
- Physico-chemistry, molecular biology
- In-situ chemical analyses
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