Launch of the French-Vietnamese oceanographic campaign PLUME
The French-Vietnamese oceanographic campaign PLUME (Particle transport along river pLUmes and their iMpact on coastal ecosystems off ViEtnam), will be held in Vietnam from May 28 to July 11, 2024. The PLUME cruise is taking place in an extremely solid French-Vietnamese partnership and programmatic context. Managed by the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), the campaign is conducted aboard the research vessel Antea of the French Oceanographic Fleet (FOF), operated by IFREMER with the support of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
PLUME aims to better understand and quantify the transport of water, particles, natural and anthropogenic materials, their mixing, evolution, distribution and fate along the river-estuary-ocean continuum, as well as their impact on the coastal area, mainly around Vietnam's three largest river systems, namely the Red River, the Mekong River, and the Saigon-Dong Nai river system, during the wet (rainy) season. This oceanographic campaign represents the highlight of the celebrations in Vietnam of the 80th anniversary of the IRD.
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