IFREMER
Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer | |
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Agency overview | |
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Formed | 1984 |
Preceding agencies |
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Headquarters | Brest, France |
Employees | 1,593[1] |
Annual budget | 213 million euros[1] |
Agency executive |
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Website | www.ifremer.fr |
IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer; Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help)) is an oceanographic institution in Brest, France.
Scope of works
Ifremer focuses its research activities in the following areas:
- Monitoring, use and enhancement of coastal seas
- Monitoring and optimization of aquaculture production
- Fishery resources
- Exploration and exploitation of the oceans and their biodiversity
- Circulation and marine ecosystems, mechanisms, trends and forecasting
- Engineering of major facilities in the service of oceanography
- Knowledge transfer and innovation in its fields of its activities
In 1985, Ifremer partnered with Dr. Robert Ballard for an ultimately-successful expedition to locate the wreck of the RMS Titanic. In 1994 Ifremer assisted in the salvage of the cargo from the SS John Barry.
Ifremer operates a number of vessels, including the submarine Nautile.
In 2008, Ifremer partnered with Dr. Bruce Shillito for the testing and initial operations of the PERISCOP, a deep sea fish recovery device.[2]
Ifremer centres
Ifremer is located in 26 sites, including 5 main centres (Boulogne, Brest, Nantes, Toulon et Tahiti), a headquarters (Brest). About twenty research departments are associated to these centres :
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- Centre Manche - Mer du Nord, associated to Université Lille Nord de France[3]
- Centre in Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Station of Port-en-Bessin
- Centre in Brest
- Station of Saint-Malo
- Station of Argenton-en-Landunvez
- Station of Concarneau
- Station of Lorient
- Station of La Trinité-sur-Mer
- Centre in Nantes
- Station of Bouin
- Station of La Rochelle
- Station of La Tremblade
- Station of Arcachon
- Laboratory of Bidart
- Centre Méditerranée (Toulon)
- Station of Sète
- Station of Palavas-les-Flots
- Unit of Montpellier
- Station of San-Giuliano
- Centre in Tahiti
- Délégation de Nouvelle-Calédonie
- Délégation of Guyane
- Délégation of la Réunion
- Délégation of Antilles
See also
Media related to Ifremer at Wikimedia Commons
Notes and references
- ^ a b Ifremer: Presentation of the Institute
- ^ Lever, Anna-Marie (31 July 2008). "Live fish caught at record depth". BBC News. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- ^ French Décret n°2009-33 about Université Lille Nord de France
External links
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