(JA) ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

• radionuclides determination (Po, Pb, Gd, Ra, Cs, U, Th, Pu, Am) in food and diet supplements as well as in environmental samples;
• speciation, distribution and accumulation of radioisotopes in living organisms and their radiological effects;
• food as radioactive elements source;
• Chernobyl accident and other radiation events impact on the radioactive contamination

Within these group, contribution of under-researched sub-hourly sea level oscillations to the extreme sea levels along the European coasts is studied.

The research focuses on observations, analyses and modeling of atmospheric and oceanic processes at different time and climatic scales using high-resolution numerical models. Studies also include coastal water pollution using ground-based meteorological measurements, remote sensing, and unmanned aerial vehicles. 

The Microbial Ecology and Biodiversity Laboratory (LUBEM, UR n ° 3882) is a research laboratory at the University of Western Brittany specializing in the study of biodiversity and the ecology of microorganisms, mainly in agriculture, food industry and environment.

The LUBEM laboratory has 2 applicative axes:

• Ecosystems with fungal components (molds and yeasts).

• Risks associated with spore forming bacteria.

LEMAR is a strongly interdisciplinary laboratory that brings together ecologists, biologists, biogeochemists, chemists, physicists and marine environment lawyers. Its objectives are (1) to conduct research on topics of fundamental research or societal importance; (2) to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development objectives in both North and South countries; (3) to bring innovations in relation to the economic world and results that support public policies; (4) to engage in interdisciplinary training in the field of marine and coastal science.

(i) analysis and environmental fate of residues of pharmaceuticals used in human and veterinary medicine entering the environment, (ii) development of novel analytical solutions for environmental and biomedical research, (iii) profiling of cuticular insect lipids as potential biofungicides, (iv) chemotaxonomic classification of plants based on the profile of secondary metabolites and (v) study of chemical composition disorders of biologically active compounds in patients with metabolic diseases