ISTerre (Grenoble) is a renowned Earth Sciences laboratory that provides important research infrastructure both at the national and international levels. ISTerre has an important role in the management the French pool of mobile seismic instruments (including passive sensors and active sources), which provides us with the expertise and infrastructure necessary to carry out seismic field experiments, especially for La Réunion Island, where we have developed volcano-monitoring methods. The (...)

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Institut Langevin (Paris) is a multi-disciplinary research institute that was created by Mathias Fink in 2009, at ESPCI ParisTech. It was founded on the skills of the Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique and the Laboratoire d’Optique Physique of the school, to develop the study of waves to a world level, for new applications and new methods of imaging. The research conducted within this CNRS unit (UMR) goes from basic and theoretical physics, to the most elaborate of applications, from (...)

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Institut Fresnel (Marseille) is a research laboratory founded in 2000 by Claude Amra, Daniel Maystre and Philippe Réfrégier, that is based in Marseille and has 80 permanent staff working in 13 teams, with research interests ranging from computational electromagnetics, theory of signal processing, and inverse problems, to experiments in biophotonics, rough surfaces and microwaves. The institute also has 10 administrative staff and 70 PhDs and Postdocs. It has three affiliations being (...)

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Imperial College London is a public university specialized in science, engineering, medicine and business. Its research activities are internationally renowned and it is ranked among the world’s top universities. The departments of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering (where this project will be hosted) offer the following specific facilities useful for the project : Computing center with qualified helpdesk available for users (WP3). Access to commercial finite element software for (...)

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Menard (Rueil-Malmaison) is a fully integrated geotechnical contractor offering worldwide expertise in ground improvement. Since the end of 1999, Menard is a subsidiary of the Vinci Group, one of the world’s leading Concession and Construction Group. Combining creative design and innovative techniques, and using a wide array of soil improvement techniques adapted to different soil conditions and structures to support, Menard delivers practical, sustainable alternatives to deep foundations. (...)

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GFZ was founded in 1992 as the national research institution for geosciences in Germany. GFZ combines all solid earth science fields including geodesy, geology, geophysics, mineralogy, paleontology and geochemistry, in a multidisciplinary scientific and technical environment. The research departments are accompanied, among others, by Technology Transfer Centers, Scientific Infrastructures and Platforms for geological storage, for geothermal energy research, and scientific drilling.
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Nearly one million hectares of maritime pines make up the largest cultivated forest in Europe straddles the departments of Landes, Gironde, Lot and Garonne but also Charentes and Dordogne.
This species has conquered the vast uncultivated territories for the production of resin and coastal protection, and now becomes an essence sought by the paper industry, wood construction and today also green chemistry. On poor soils and in front of natural risks (storms, fires, health attacks), he (...)

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