Links

Observations

Critical Zone

Structuration of the recent CZ community:

 

e-LTER: Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem & Socio-Ecological Research Infrastructure

 

OZCAR: CZ research infrastructure (in construction): the French mirror of the e-LTER research infrastructure

 

RBV: Réseau des Bassin versants: A french critical zone network: a SOERE (Systèmes d’observation et d’expérimentation au long terme pour la recherche en environnement). Also metadata portal. Part of OZCAR.

 

AMMA-CATCH: Part of RBV: a french observation service (SNO), dedicated on the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis - Coupling the Tropical Atmosphere and the Hydrological Cycle.


THEIAa thematic pole for the continental surface

 

Critex: a network around innovative equipment for the critical zone in France

Gravity/geophysics

Superconducting (SG) gravimeters data of Strasbourg (J9) and Djougou (Benin):

http://cdg.u-strasbg.fr/PortailEOST/Gravi/v1/

 

Earthquake travel time calculation. Useful to check possible cause for disturbance of gravity data:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

 

Strasbourg Observatory:

https://eost.unistra.fr/observatoires/geodesie-et-gravimetrie/

 

GRACE data:

http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/

http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/


Partners

Niger:

Ministère de l'hydraulique au Niger

Abdou Moumouni University (Niamey)

Dan Dicko Dankoulodo University (Maradi)

SFR Racines-Sahel (Niamey)

 

Bénin:

Direction générale de l'eau au Bénin (DGEau)

Abomey-Calavi University

Porto-Novo University

 

Regional centers:

agrhymet (CILSS): Comité permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel

ABN: Autorité du Bassin du Niger

Others

IGRAC: International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (UNESCO )

Sustainable development goals

 

Institutions:

IRD

CNES

 

Projects:

GRIBA: Groundwater Ressources in Basement Rocks of Africa

GROFUTURES: Groundwater Future in Sub-Saharan Africa

LMI PICASS-EAU: Laboratoire Mixte International: Prédire l'Impact du Climat et des usAges sur les reSSources en Eau en Afrique sUbsaharienne

 

NGOs:

Les Jardins de l'espoir: Sustainable development of Agro-Ecology in Benin

Tero Loko: Welcome refugees: Housing & Jobs in rural areas around Grenoble

 

MOOCs:

Des rivières et des Hommes

L'eau et les Sols