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Oceanographic equipment is available to laboratories for their ocean research (on coastal or offshore vessels). We manage loans of equipment at sea, purchase, maintain, develop and upgrade equipment, maintain and follow up calibration, design and prepare moorings, train users, and implement oceangoing campaigns. We have a collection of ?basic' oceanographic equipment: hydrological and current measurements, particle collection, mooring equipment, core sampling, etc.
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Management of the National Coastal and Offshore Oceanographic Park consisting of sensors and sampling systems for the French scientific community. Instrumental development. Expertise in instrumented buoys, ocean coring, tide gauge networks, satellite altimetry calibration