The extension of the research program until year 2004 was again approved in 2000. Organisation of the Chair at UQ M At UQ M, the Chair relies directly to the 'vice-principal for research and planning' of the university. The actual research team of the Chair consists of 12 researchers and professors from UQ M and McGill universities. About ten post-doctoral fellows , as much research assistants plus about thirty graduate students complete the research team. The major theme concerns the dynamics of environmental systems, considering both their biotic and abiotic compartments.
Research projects bear on high and low latitude continental and marine environments.
Induced sismicity and green house gas fluxes in regions developed for hydro-electricity. Special collaborative project on the paleoceanography of the NW Atlantic ocean during the latest climatic cycle of the planet. Projects concerning water resources in south hemisphere countries. Collaborative studies in intertropical paleolimnology. Research on U and Th isotope fluxes and recycling in continental basins.