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Ifremer
Ifremer is the public French Institute for Marine Research. Its staff including 1705 managers, researchers, engineers, sailors, technicians and administrative contributes, through basic and applied researches, expertises and technological developments to further the knowledge of oceanic systems and associated resources, to monitoring oceanic and coastal zones and to encourage the sustainable development of maritime activities in a broad range of marine environments. Ifremer also manages and operates the French oceanographic research fleet: 7 vessels (4 of them for deep-sea operation), 1 manned submersible, 1 remotely-operated vehicle for deep sea explorations, a full set of test facilities and instrumentation. Its budget is about 160 MEuro. One of the six main fields of activity of the Institute concerns ocean floor exploration and the understanding of the drivers of geophysical, geochemical and biological processes and their interactions in deep-sea ecosystems. Through this objective, its activity is to contribute to the preservation of the unique biodiversity and ecosystems in the deep-sea and to better control of exploitation of living, mineral and energy resources.
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Dr Nadine Le Bris has been involved for the last 14 years in research activities and technological developments dedicated to the study of deep-sea environments at Ifremer. She has been mostly concerned with the development of innovative chemical sensing tools and interdisciplinary studies in deep-sea hydrothermal vents environments. She has participated in 9 submersible cruises (led by US, German and French groups, one of them as chief scientist) dedicated to ecological and biological studies on ocean ridges and continental margins. She is a referee for international journals such as Deep-Sea Research, Geochimica and Cosmochimica Acta, Analytica and Chimica Acta and has reviewed NSF projects related to different disciplinary aspects of ridge research. As senior scientist at the Deep-Sea Ecosystems Studies Department of Ifremer, she is now in charge of the financial and administrative coordination of the project ‘Fluids, Hydrates and Biogeochemical Interactions’. She has collaborated in a number of EC Framework Programme projects dealing with deep-sea ecosystems (CAPELLI/MAST2, ALIPOR/MAST3I, AMORES/MAST3, VENTOX/FP5 as WP leader, MOMARNET/FP6 as node coordinator, HERMES/FP6) and is involved in the new ESF EUROCORES project EURODEEP. She was part of the core that initiated a working group on ‘Biogeochemical Interactions at Deep-Sea Vents’ within InterRidge (SCOR-affiliated organisation dealing with all aspects of ridges and deep-sea hydrothermalism). As chair of this working group since its creation in 2004, she participated in the organising committee of the MOMAR (Monitoring the mid-Atlantic Ridge) international workshop and is currently involved in the organisation of an international InterRidge workshop planned to occur in September 2007 (WHOI, US).