Laboratory of the Sciences for the Climate and the Environment (LSCE) - UMR 8212 (CNRS/CEA/UVSQ)

Address: LSCE, Orme des merisiers Bâtiment 701 - point courrier 129 Centre de Saclay
91190 GIF SUR YVETTE CEDEX
Tel: +33 (1) 69 08 77 11

Additional Contact Details Administrative Manager:
Maud Grenet
Tel: +33 (0) 1 69 08 96 95
excelso.da-silva@lsce.ipsl.fr

Connections: Observatory of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (OVSQ)
External Ties: Physics, atmospheric chemistry - Climatology, paleoclimatology - Physics, ocean chemistry - paleo-oceanography - glaciology - continental biosphere - hydrogeology - geochemistry - remote sensing.
Governing Bodies: CNRS - CEA - DSM
Reference: UMR 8212
Department: Earth and universe sciences, Space

Structure of the management team
Director:
Philippe Bousquet
philippe.bousquet@lsce.ipsl.fr
Deputy Director:
François-Marie Bréon
francois-marie.breon@lsce.ipsl.fr

Staff:
Researchers: 81
Lecturer-researchers: 9
ITA/IATOS: 71
HDR: 48
Doctoral students: 66

Research Topics

• Reconstruction of past climates (archives: ice, marine environments, continental environments) Climate modelling (natural climate changes during the Quaternary and pre-Quaternaries, climate changes induced by man)
• Biogeochemical cycles (chemistry and pollution, carbon cycle, aerosols)
• Geochronology (continental and marine chronologies, archaeology)
• Environmental sciences (hydrology, continent-ocean interface, geochemical and geophysical tracers)

Field of Application
UVSQ / CNRS / CEA

Approximately 165 publications each year. Find them at: hal.uvsq.fr/LSCE/

• Mass spectrometers
• Alpha and gamma spectrometry
• ICPMS and ICPAES
• SEM / X microanalysis / X micro fluorescence
• Magnetometers
• Chromatographs
• Lasers

International Collaborations
Horizon 2020

LCSE is attached to the Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL).
Affiliate doctoral schools: ED SMEMaG Mechanical and energy sciences, materials and geosciences; ED Environmental Sciences of Ile-de-France