Monitoring environnemental, Santé, Société et Pétrole en Equateur

GET

GET Laboratory is the research coordinator of MONOIL project.

The GET laboratory - Geosciences Environment Toulouse(GET, partner 1) is hosted at the Midi-Pyrenees Observatory and is supported by three institutions: Paul Sabatier University (UPS), CNRS and IRD. It recently formed an agreement with CNES. It is a large laboratory (UMR 5563, A+) that comprises more than 200 people. Members of GET have published over five hundred papers in top international journals over the past ten years, and GET is viewed as one of the leading international facilities in the determination of fundamental processes occurring at mineral surfaces, and trace elements migration and speciation in aquatic systems.

The major theme “Metallic contaminations-ecosystems interactions: interfaces with health and society (ICMESS)” is managed by Sylvia Becerra and Laurence Maurice. The theme focuses on the dynamics of metallic contaminants, their social and sanitary impacts and aims to bring social answers to major contamination problematic. A large group of scientists are actively involved in the multidisciplinary topic entitled “Environment-Health-Society” supported by the Midi-Pyrenees Observatory. The research team is largely involved and/or coordinates various national (ANR, EC2CO, INSU, etc.) and international (ERC, CAPES-Cofecub, etc.) research projects, as well as supervising numerous students (PhD, Masters, engineers, trainees) studying general or specific topics such as the environment, risk assessment, political sciences or sociology.

For more information, please see  : http://www.get.obs-mip.fr/recherche/thematiques/et6

OMP- transversal action "Environment Health and society"

Living in an increasingly polluted world (Torny, 2013) and preventing related risks are today strong challenges for public authorities everywhere. One major reason is that environment health risks are highly uncertain and occur in the future, while the costs of averting them are often immediate: collective action is thus not obvious (Langston, 2013). To take up the scientific challenges in the understanding of the link between health and environment, an interdisciplinary approach is necessary. As several authors say, environmental health doesn’t belong to a specific discipline but offer a common platform to capitalize the existing scientist knowledge in various fields (Dab, 2012).

EPOC

The laboratory of Oceanic and Continental Environment and Paleo-environment, (EPOC, partner 5), UMR 5805 (CNRS-University of Bordeaux 1) , has a long experience in the study of sources, fluxes and fate of organic pollutants and trace metals in aquatic environments. The team ofPhysico- and Toxico-Chemistry of the Environment(LPTC) is interested in the fate and the impact of organic pollutants. The researches of the LPTC focus particularly on the development of new methodologies for sampling, on the analysis of organic pollutants in biotic and abiotic compartments and on the study of processes that govern the presence and bioavailability of pollutants in the environment. The team has a wide range of advanced analytical instruments dedicated to the extraction and analysis of organic contaminants in various matrices and to the analysis of organic matter. The LPTC has developed a well-known expertise in the study of oils, hydrocarbons and their impact on the environment.  They have worked, in particular, on the Erika and Prestige oil spills and studied Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons both in aquatic and atmospheric environments (in terms of presence, source, fate and impact). For the past ten years , the team has been involved in many research projects on a regional, national or international scale and among them,  ten European projects (eg, BEEP, DIAC, SWIFT-WFD) and eleven ANR, three as coordinator (Popstar, EMESTOX, Reacting).

HSM

Hydrosciences Montpellier(HSM, partner 4), UMR 5569 (CNRS, IRD, UM1, UM2), is a multidisciplinary laboratory that addresses various topics related to water and the impact of environmental disturbance. Axe 1 entitled “Biogeochemistry, Contaminants and Health” deals specifically with the impact of contaminants on environment and human health. The team has a large experience in taking part and managing large project in partnership with developing countries, particularly in the field of analytical epidemiology and social epidemiology. The researchers involved in this project participated several times in multidisciplinary projects in the field of environmental sciences or social sciences. They coordinated the ToxBol program (ANR 2007-10) and participated to the SIRS cohort (Health Inequalities and Social Breakouts, INSERM 2005-2015)

GEODE

GEODE (partner 3) UMR 5602 (CNRS/Toulouse2 Le Mirail University) is a general purpose laboratory for Environmental Geography (biodiversity, water quality, natural reserves, environmental and landscape history), using methods and tools as diverse as remote sensing, geographic information systems, social investigations, archive research and paleo-environmental sciences. GEODE boasts long experience in risk analysis. The study of the social dimension of risk has increased over recent years, with GEODE contributing to work on natural hazard management in several European and developed countries, from which several collaborations have been assessed with GET and CERTOP labs (PRES/ Modelling spatial vulnerability to flooding (2008-2010); ANR "Improving flood warnings" (2010-2013) (on course); Project Pastek and MIASMES in Laos (2010-2012)).

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IMRCP

The IMRCP (Interactions moléculaires et réactivité chimique et photochimique) laboratory (Partner 6) UMR 5623 (CNRS, UT3) develops organised molecular systems and studies processes of therapeutic or environmental interest. The originality of the « Systèmes Moléculaires Organisés et Développement Durable » research group lies in its innovative synthetic engineering of Organised Molecular Systems (OMS) with the research of concepts for a new chemistry in service of sustainable development. Its key point is to design and to implement original OMS that will be developed for vectorisation, reactivity of confined zones and elaboration of green materials. The principal activity of the laboratory is in the continuum of fundamental research and innovation until launch onto market of the developed product. IMRCP boasts three collaborations: "Aerospace valley", "EMC2" in partnership with Airbus Industries, and "Cancer, Bio-Santé" with labeled contracts. A collaboration with Pierre Fabre society has enabled the implementation of three bioactive formulations (Oxane HD ©, TriXera + sélectiose ©, and Triacneal ©).

LEREPS

The Laboratory of Study and Research on Economy, Politics and Social systems (LEREPS, partner 2), EA 4212, UMR MA 119 (UT1-Capitole, IEP Toulouse, UT2 –Le Mirail, ENFA) is a multidisciplinary research centre (economics, management, sociology and regional and urban studies) organised around two main topics: Topic 1 being Space and Territories (Location of firms and Industrial Dynamics; Governance, Spatial Organisation and Coordination); Topic 2, Organisational Dynamics (Organisational Change, Knowledge Production and Diffusion;). Within the sub-topic "Governance, Spatial Organisation and Coordination", linked with MONOIL, the LEREPS focuses on the institutional factors that determine development dynamics and many key issues of local area governance (innovation in the agro-environmental field, water resources management, rural and agricultural development, etc.) in a number of developing countries.

EPN

The National Polytechnic School of Ecuador, EPN (partner 7)is involved in the sampling and analyses of heavy metals and aromatic components of environmental and biological elements (food, fish and fauna). Having previously worked on this topic in the surroundings of the Shushufindi petroleum refinery in the Ecuadorian Amazon, they will bring a great deal of expertise to the project, and will seek to strengthen the training of their students in environmental geochemistry.

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