OceanExpert ID : 20192
Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers (OASU)
OASU
(Aquitaine Observatory of the Sciences of the Universe)
Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Bât. B18N
33600 Pessac
France
Type
Research
Telephone
+33 540008350
EDMO code
Activities
The OASU is one of the 28 "Universe Sciences Observatories" that pave the French observation lanscape in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Oceanography, Atmospheric, Earth and Environmental Sciences, with methodologies linked to physics, chemistry, biology, and humanities & social sciences. The OASU is a partnernship between the University of Bordeaux, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and IRSTEA, La Rochelle University and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
The OASU federates independent
laboratories that carry out their own research activities and that participate
to the missions of the OASU, i.e. the long-term environmental observation
(universe, earth, ocean, atmosphere, littoral, coastal ecosystems) and the
development of associated methodologies (instrumentation, data collection,
definition of good practices, data analysis, modelling, data diffusion), higher
education linked to those fields, and finally a force in initiating innovative
interdisciplinary projects. Related to long-term observation, the
OASU coordinates or participates to the so-called "National Observational
Services"
that are labelled by the CNRS (SOMLIT, ALMA, GAIA, JUICE, International VLBI
Service, DynaLIT). The research topics within the OASU range from the structure
of galaxies and planets, the biogeochemical processes in rivers, lagoons,
oceans and water-sediment interface, through coastal hydrodynamics, air and
water pollution, land surfaces, remote sensing, genesis of oceanic sedimentary
bodies and high frequency variability of past climates and prehistory.
