Geosciences Environment Toulouse (GET) is a multidisciplinary research laboratory in Earth and Environmental Sciences attached to the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OSU OMP).
Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET)
Mixed Research Unit
UMR 5563 CNRS / UR 234 IRD / UM 97 UPS / CNES
Our unit
The creation of the unit on 01/01/2011, resulted from an evolution of the Laboratory of Transfer Mechanisms in Geology (LMTG – UMR 5563), created in 2004 under the supervision of the CNRS, IRD, and University Toulouse 3. It was complemented by several teams from other units of the Toulouse site: the Terrestrial and Planetary Dynamics laboratory (DTP – UMR 5562), whose mandate ended in December 2010, and the Center for Space Studies of the Biosphere (CESBIO). On the same date, the GET also became a CNES space laboratory by integrating the CNES Space Geodesy team, previously attached to UMR 5562 (DTP laboratory) and dependent on the Toulouse Space Center. Historically, the LMTG, founding laboratory of the GET, came from a geology laboratory of the CNRS and Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3), located on the university site of the 36 Ponts in the center of Toulouse, today occupied by the University of Toulouse and the International City of Toulouse. Its installation on the site of the Midi-Pyrénées Observatory took place in 2004, with the creation of UMR5563 / LMTG.
The lab currently brings together around 156 tenured researchers, professors and assistant professors, engineers, technicians, and administrative staff (52 CNRS, 55 UT3/CNAP, 38 IRD, and 11 CNES), and more than 70 Ph.D. students and researchers on fixed-term contracts.
Through its activities, the GET is affiliated with the “Earth & Universe” (INSU) and “Ecology and Environment” (INEE) domains and institutes of the CNRS, the “Internal and Surface Dynamics of Continents” (DISCO) department of the IRD and the “Earth – Oceans – Continental Surfaces – Atmosphere” (TOSCA) domain of the CNES. Since 2011, the GET has also been an affiliated unit and component of the Carnot ISIFoR Institute (Sustainable Georesource Engineering).
An amazing research environment
GET is a member of the Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers (OSU) “Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées” (OMP) federative structure under the supervision of CNRS, CNES, IRD, Météo-France and Université Toulouse 3.
OMP currently brings together 9 Mixed Research Units (UMRs IRAP, GET, LEGOS, CESBIO, LAERO, CRBE, CNRM, CERFACS, CEFREM), spread over the sites of Toulouse, Lannemezan, Pic du Midi, Perpignan and covers vast fields of research including Astronomy and Planetology, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, ecology and environmental sciences. OMP is also the “Universe, Planet, Space, Environment” (UPEE) Pole & Internal School of Université Toulouse III.
GET is located on the Toulouse Rangueil Scientific Complex, integrating Université de Toulouse 3, the Midi-Pyrénées Observatory, National Research Organizations (including CNES, ONERA, etc.) and national higher education schools (including SUPAREO, ENAC, etc.), the CNRS Regional Delegation and many Mixed Research Units.
Finally, this environment offers all the units on the site a favorable context for collaborations and interactions for the study of the Earth system as a whole, which benefits GET in developing its research, training and valorization missions.