Drawing on a dense and varied network of scientific partners, IRD works in a spirit of regional cooperation. The Institute benefits from long-standing presence, recognised by the national funding agencies. IRD research encompasses global changes, the sustainable management of resources and territories, mobilities and urban dynamics.
With glaciers, which contain part of the climate and environmental history of the planet, melting due to climate change, from May to June 2017, the team of the international ICE MEMORY programme extracted ice cores from the Illimani glacier in Bolivia, at an altitude of almost 6300 m.
From 9 April to 8 May 2017, a group of Franco-Brazilian researchers conducted the second ABRAÇOS campaign (Acoustics along the Brazilian COaSt) aboard the IRD oceanographic ship Antea, off the coasts of the Northeast region of Brazil. The contributions of this campaign range from discovering new species to improving understanding of connectivity between oceanic islands and the continental margin.
2017 marked 50 years of IRD presence in Peru. From August to December, two exhibitions and twelve conferences on IRD’s specific research themes in Peru (biology, geosciences, oceanography, health, SHS).