The "Coastal and Continental Morphodynamics" laboratory (M2C) is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 6143) created in 1996, under the supervision of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the university of Caen Normandie (UNICAEN) and the university of Rouen Normandy (URN). The staff of the laboratory includes 86 persons: 37 researchers, 21 engineers and technicians, 28 PhD students. The research of the M2C laboratory focuses on the characterization and modeling of natural processes dynamics in different compartments along the LAND-SEA continuum, at different scales of time and space. The research is organized into 5 themes::
- Water and sediment cycles in watersheds;
- Macrotidal estuarine environment: hydrodynamics interactions, sedimentology, biochemistry;
- Dynamics of the coastline and of the internal platform;
- Morphological evolution of coastal watersheds in response to climatic and tectonic forcing since the late Cenozoic;
- Hydrodynamics, sediments and structures: Processes and interactions.
This research is carried out with an interdisciplinary approach integrating researchers specialized in mechanics, geosciences, oceanography, hydrology, microbiology and ecology of organisms. Our research combines in-situ measurements with numerous dedicated equipment, experimental approaches and numerical moodeling.
