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SML Masters Course (Sciences of the Sea and Shore), UBO-IUEM, Brest
The SML Masters course is the only one in France whose name indicates its specific
marine focus and offers various specialisations covering a wide spectrum of marine
sciences, from physics to law and economics. The marine geoscience specialisation
offers three options covering aspects of geodynamics, geophysics and plate tectonics, sedimentology and petrology/geochemistry. This course enables students to
specialise in data acquisition methods and techniques at sea through field missions
on board vessels, and to learn about different geodynamic features, from ridges to
margins, as well as the shore. The “physics and mechanics of continuous environments” specialisation offers students with a physics degree or engineering school
qualification, as part of the marine geophysics option, a course in Earth sciences
geared towards geophysics. The core module on challenges and issues enables students taking the different options to come together for a multidisciplinary module.
GéoAzur, Villefranche-sur-Mer
This marine geoscience research laboratory contributes to training through three
teaching modules, one at Master 1 level and two at Master 2 level. They cover marine seismic activity and the comparative study of marine and terrestrial features, in
collaboration with the Masters courses at the universities of Paris VI and Nice. The
expedition on board the oceanographic vessel Téthys, dedicated to marine seismic
activity and core sampling, is an asset in the training offered by this laboratory.
IPG Paris
As part of the Masters course in geosciences offered by IPGP (Institute of Earth
Physics of Paris), several options address marine geosciences.
Engineering Schools
One Higher National School of Geology (ENSG-INPL, engineering school associated with the Ecoles des mines group), several higher engineering schools from the
Écoles des mines group, the School and Observatory of Earth Sciences (EOST in
Strasbourg) and LaSalle-Beauvais Polytechnic Institute complete the Masters level
training offer.
ENSG Nancy The Higher National School of Geology in Nancy is the only French
“grandeécole” in its field, i.e. that of geosciences, in particular in the fields of application of interaction between human activities and the geosphere. ENSG is today
developing in four priority areas both in terms of teaching and research: mineral and
energy raw materials; water; geotechnics, civil engineering, use of land and subsoil;
and finally, the environment and safety, quantitative geology.
A. Cheilletz and M. Maia
SML Masters Course (Sciences of the Sea and Shore), UBO-IUEM, Brest
The SML Masters course is the only one in France whose name indicates its specific
marine focus and offers various specialisations covering a wide spectrum of marine
sciences, from physics to law and economics. The marine geoscience specialisation
offers three options covering aspects of geodynamics, geophysics and plate tectonics, sedimentology and petrology/geochemistry. This course enables students to
specialise in data acquisition methods and techniques at sea through field missions
on board vessels, and to learn about different geodynamic features, from ridges to
margins, as well as the shore. The “physics and mechanics of continuous environments” specialisation offers students with a physics degree or engineering school
qualification, as part of the marine geophysics option, a course in Earth sciences
geared towards geophysics. The core module on challenges and issues enables students taking the different options to come together for a multidisciplinary module.
GéoAzur, Villefranche-sur-Mer
This marine geoscience research laboratory contributes to training through three
teaching modules, one at Master 1 level and two at Master 2 level. They cover marine seismic activity and the comparative study of marine and terrestrial features, in
collaboration with the Masters courses at the universities of Paris VI and Nice. The
expedition on board the oceanographic vessel Téthys, dedicated to marine seismic
activity and core sampling, is an asset in the training offered by this laboratory.
IPG Paris
As part of the Masters course in geosciences offered by IPGP (Institute of Earth
Physics of Paris), several options address marine geosciences.
Engineering Schools
One Higher National School of Geology (ENSG-INPL, engineering school associated with the Ecoles des mines group), several higher engineering schools from the
Écoles des mines group, the School and Observatory of Earth Sciences (EOST in
Strasbourg) and LaSalle-Beauvais Polytechnic Institute complete the Masters level
training offer.
ENSG Nancy The Higher National School of Geology in Nancy is the only French
“grandeécole” in its field, i.e. that of geosciences, in particular in the fields of application of interaction between human activities and the geosphere. ENSG is today
developing in four priority areas both in terms of teaching and research: mineral and
energy raw materials; water; geotechnics, civil engineering, use of land and subsoil;
and finally, the environment and safety, quantitative geology.
A. Cheilletz and M. Maia