OZCAR (Critical Zone Observatories: Research and Application) is a national distributed research infrastructure associating most of the French observation sites dedicated to the observation and monitoring of the Critical Zone, CZ, the thin outer venner of Earth’s continents extending from the top of the vegetation canopy down to groundwater.
This morning saw the start of the first hydrometry training course organized by the OZCAR research infrastructure in Lyon. The event brought together 18 participants – trainers, engineers and technicians from 9 OZCAR RI observatories – around the expertise of RiverLy‘s River Hydraulics team (INRAE, Lyon Villeurbanne). Over two days, participants will alternate between : […]
OZCAR-CRITECH meetings kick off! From today, the technical community of observatories will be getting together for the OZCAR-CRITECH meetings, the first event of its kind for OZCAR. Running until Wednesday 20 November in Écully, near Lyon, these days will feature oral and poster presentations, sensor and instrument demonstrations, and fruitful exchanges between participants. A key […]
3rd OZCAR TERENO Conference 2025
In October 2021, we organized the first conference jointly organised by French network OZCAR, the French research infrastructure on “Observatoires de la Zone Critique” and German network TERENO, “ Terrestrial Environmental Observatories ” in Strasbourg, France. It was the first meeting of this kind in Europe aiming at bringing together scientists active in terrestrial system’s research. This […]
A week of multidisciplinary experimentation on the Frasne peat bog (Tourbières Observatory/OZCAR RI) 26 – 30 JUNE 2023 A multidisciplinary field campaign was organised on the Frasne site belonging to the Tourbières Observatory from 26th to 30th of June 2023, at the initiative of members of the OZCAR research infrastructure and the EQUIPEX + “Terra […]
Dear colleagues, Abstract submission for the second international TERENO OZCAR conference to be held in Bonn, Germany, 25-28 September 2023 is open since 1 March 2023. We would like to remind you that the closing date is 1 June 2023. Information on session topics can be found on the conference website : https://www.tereno-conference2023.de/en We hope to […]
This morning saw the start of the first hydrometry training course organized by the OZCAR research infrastructure in Lyon. The event brought together 18 participants – trainers, engineers and technicians from 9 OZCAR RI observatories – around the expertise of RiverLy‘s River Hydraulics team (INRAE, Lyon Villeurbanne). Over two days, participants will alternate between : […]
OZCAR-CRITECH meetings kick off! From today, the technical community of observatories will be getting together for the OZCAR-CRITECH meetings, the first event of its kind for OZCAR. Running until Wednesday 20 November in Écully, near Lyon, these days will feature oral and poster presentations, sensor and instrument demonstrations, and fruitful exchanges between participants. A key […]
3rd OZCAR TERENO Conference 2025
In October 2021, we organized the first conference jointly organised by French network OZCAR, the French research infrastructure on “Observatoires de la Zone Critique” and German network TERENO, “ Terrestrial Environmental Observatories ” in Strasbourg, France. It was the first meeting of this kind in Europe aiming at bringing together scientists active in terrestrial system’s research. This […]
A week of multidisciplinary experimentation on the Frasne peat bog (Tourbières Observatory/OZCAR RI) 26 – 30 JUNE 2023 A multidisciplinary field campaign was organised on the Frasne site belonging to the Tourbières Observatory from 26th to 30th of June 2023, at the initiative of members of the OZCAR research infrastructure and the EQUIPEX + “Terra […]
Dear colleagues, Abstract submission for the second international TERENO OZCAR conference to be held in Bonn, Germany, 25-28 September 2023 is open since 1 March 2023. We would like to remind you that the closing date is 1 June 2023. Information on session topics can be found on the conference website : https://www.tereno-conference2023.de/en We hope to […]