Scientific offering

  • - Characterization of physical properties of marine sediments:
  • - Coastal engineering and hydrodynamics:
  • - Environmental impact reports:
  • - Geochemical characterization of marine sediments:
  • - Mapping:
  • - Petrology:
  • - Sediment and archeological objects dating:
  • - Sedimentology:
  • - Seismic characterization of the seabed:
  • Assessments of environmental risks.
  • Bathymetry.
  • Beach equilibrium and sediment balance modelling.
  • Cs.
  • Currents and waves measurements.
  • Dredge: shipeck, van veen, box corer.
  • Elemental analysis of marine samples
  • Environmental quality assessment of sedimentary environment.
  • Environmental susceptibility mapping.
  • Evaluation, effects and incidences.
  • Gamma density
  • Grain size analysis (sieving, nephelometry and laser)
  • Heavy metal assessment
  • Interpretation and calibration of radiocarbon data.
  • Magnetic properties: susceptibility (at different frequencies and temperatures) and remanence (j, arm, irm, af)
  • Measurement of beach profile and planform
  • Micropaleontology.
  • Mineral characterization by x-ray diffraction
  • Mineralogy diagnosis by x ray difraction.
  • Modelling of present-day sedimentary environments.
  • Multibeam echosounder.
  • Palaeomagnetic, archaeomagnetic and magnetostratigraphic dating and thermal demagnetization alternating fields
  • Pb.
  • Piston and gravity corers.
  • Remediation measurements.
  • Resistivity
  • Sem/bs determination of general texture, sphericity, roundness and quartz surficial texture colour (spectrophotometry)
  • Side scan sonar.
  • Sub-bottom profiler.
  • Thematic mapping gis/xis.
  • Thin section characterization of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks by optical and electron microscopy (sem).
  • Total inorganic carbon
  • Total organic carbon (toc, om)
  • Vp
  • Wave modeling.