Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET) is a public research laboratory in the fields of Earth and Environmental Sciences, member of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP). The UMR is the result of the merger in 2011 of the Laboratoire des Mécanismes de Transferts en Géologie (LMTG), part of the Dynamique Terrestre et Planétaire (DTP) laboratory, and a team from the Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO).
The research themes of our laboratory in the field of STM are: the oceanic lithosphere-hydrosphere interface approached from different perspectives: Ophiolite versus oceanic lithosphere, segmentation of oceanic ridges, mantle and magma chamber dynamics, heat and matter transfer in the ridge flanks, marine hydrothermalism, ... ;
The land-sea continuum approached according to basin analysis (erosion versus sedimentation), the water-sediment interface, the continentalization of the Messinian crisis, coastal erosion, the dispersion of terrestrial contaminants towards the ocean, numerical modelling "Source to Sink" and the biological fossil archive (oyster, mussel, fish tooth, foraminifera, , ...).
The two previous axes have highlighted important limitations of our instrumentation that restrict us in the accomplishment of our research. Thus, we have carried out an instrumental development approach: 1. automatic camera for monitoring coastal erosion, 2. a pre-concentrator of metals in the marine coastal area and 3. a pre-concentrator of metals in the marine coastal area. An autonomous and sequenced multi-sampler for high temperature hydrothermal fluids in extreme marine environments. These instrumental developments have led to technology maturation funding, patent applications and technology transfers to industry.
