As a marine geophysicist and seismologist, after an initial career in the French overseas territories (New Caledonia, Reunion and the West Indies), I have been involved in cooperative research for almost twenty years, mainly in the Mediterranean basin and Latin America.
The scientific programs we conducted in Ecuador were co-constructed with the Institute of Geophysics of the National Polytechnic School (IG-EPN) and the Oceanographic Institute of the Ecuadorian Navy (INOCAR), both institutes being in charge of seismic, volcanic and tsunami risks. These programs were the framework for 6 campaigns at sea from French or European vessels, but above all for a large number of interventions from Ecuadorian and Colombian vessels, either in support of European vessels, or for autonomous operations that I personally coordinated. It's because these programs are effectively co-constructed and co-conducted with our partners that they have made considerable resources available to us for all these operations (resources at sea such as the B/I Orion, personnel, premises, databases, etc.).
You will find the main results of this work in my publications
