The PLASMA project aims to establish a detailed map of PM pollution in the Bay of Marseille and to understand its spatio-temporal dynamics. The project focuses on 2 areas: 

Aquatic mesocosms laboratory On this platform, physico-chemists, micro-biologists and ecologists assess the environmental risk of (nano)materials by accessing mechanistic data on several spatial and temporal scales. The

We use our equipment to process soil samples, but also organic and inorganic matrices used in agriculture such as fertilisers or pesticides (organic wastes, fungicides, etc.)

Tools Applications Contacts Scientific leaders:Edouard Bard and Mélanie Baroni Core drilling in the polar ice caps provides environmental information at high temporal resolution for periods

Radiocarbon calibration and the global carbon cycle In its original form, radiocarbon dating is not accurate because the atmospheric 14C content does not remain constant over time.

AixMICADAS Gas source AGE3 Cryogenic line EC-OC Cryo line Micromill Lab Pretreatment Spectrometer AixMICADAS The MICADAS (Mini Carbon Dating System) spectrometer is an innovation in the field of spectroscopy