Centre d’Economie et d’Ethique pour l’Environnement et le Développement Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

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GOUVERNe Project Partner No 6

BRGM, which acts as the French Geological Survey, incorporates a Geological and Mining Division, a Public Service Division and a Research Division. It is also the parent company of the BRGM Group - a diversified group of companies involved in the Earth Sciences. The Group embraces several activities in the field of Earth Sciences, such as geology, hydrology and hydrogeology, geochemistry, and geophysics, applied to the environment, natural hazards, mining activities, civil engineering, etc.
The Research Division (200 researchers within a permanent BRGM staff of 900) is devoted to applied research in various domains of the Earth Sciences ranging from the environment and water resources to metallogeny and geochemical mineral exploration. BRGM has acquired a long experience of hydrogeological data acquisition, multi-disciplanary database management, groundwater and surface water geochemistry, isotopes and pesticides analysis, soil and aquifer remediation, numerical modelling in porous and fractured media including such aspects as point-source and diffuse contamination, fluid temperature and density effect, freshwater-saltwater interface.
The Laboratory of Geochemistry and Hydrogeology, involved in the GOUVERNe project, includes 24 researchers who are located both in Orléans, at the main research centre of BRGM, near Paris, and also in Montpellier, which contains the hydrogeological part of the Laboratory. This part of the section located close to the Mediterranean coast is particularly involved in hydrosystem studies, hydrogeology, hydrology, geochemistry, hydrosphere pollution, hydrodynamic and pollutant transfer modelling from  the scale of field site to the catchment and regional aquifer scale.