LéXPLORE platform: call for EPFL projects
© Natacha Pasche, LéXPLORE platform 2019, EPFL
The Limnology Center offers opportunities for seed funding (< 45’000 CHF) for EPFL projects on the experimental platform LéXPLORE, anchored on Lake Leman for 8 years.
The goal of LéXPLORE platform is to acquire simultaneously physical, geochemical and biological measurements at high temporal and vertical resolutions, days and nights in any weather conditions. This will allow investigating key processes in stratified aquatic systems in unprecedented detail and resolution. To bring many disciplines together, LéXPLORE is a partnership between EPFL, Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, and Eawag (and Thonon-Les-Bain in admission phase). In addition, LéXPLORE is open to any international researcher that would like to collaborate and benefit from the infrastructure / data.
With this Call for EPFL Projects, we encourage EPFL research groups to apply for seed money in the range of 20 to 45 kCHF on research questions related to the LéXPLORE Platform. To be eligible, the principal investigator has to be based at EPFL. Even if LéXPLORE is strongly adapted for aquatic sciences, we would like to see diversification to studying the lake-water interface, atmospheric and climatic sciences, sensors development and big environmental data, and others…
You can apply by 31th May 2019 using this Application Form with the Call description.