Past internship topics
The topics below have been proposed to CEREGE in previous years. They are kept here for archiving purposes and are not open to applications for the current year.
Internship topics (2024-2025)
Earth and Planets
- Deciphering the extraterrestrial material flux on Earth
- Properties of ejected material following an asteroid impact
- Unravelling the lifetime of post-impact hydrothermalism using modelling approaches
- Petrogeochemical study of wrought tektites from South-East Asia (provided)
- Characterisation of palaeoenvironmental and palaeohydrological variability in the Haut Argens (St Maximin and Seillons plains, Var, Mediterranean France) in the recent Quaternary based on coring in a lacustrine environment (provided)
- The influence of permafrost on evaporation and runoff in high-altitude catchments
- Characterisation and comparison of sedimentary deposits in two Rhone valley palaeomembranes active during different climatic periods: an integrated approach based on geomatics, sedimentology and morphometry.
Climate
- Dissolution of calcareous shells and skeletons in an acidifying marine tropical environment
- Culturing foraminifera: from laboratory, to field, to sediment
- Reconstruction of erosive activity in relation to vegetation dynamics in the Southern Alps over the last millennium
- Fine fraction geochemistry to reconstruct productivity changes in the Mediterranean Sea during sapropel formation
- Evolution of glaciers in Ecuador over the last 3,000 years: role of climatic and non-climatic drivers
- Development of a protocol for extracting and measuring 26Al from glacial archives and its application to the reconstruction of atmospheric production over the Holocene
- Study of rapid climate variability in the tropical Indian Ocean: coupled data/models approach
- Calcareous nannofossil production, size, and calcification during the Miocene Climatic Optimum in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean
- Palaeoceanography of the tropical pelagic Indian Ocean: integrated stratigraphic and organic geochemical approaches
Resources, Reservoirs and Hydrosystems
- Revision of the chronostratigraphic framework of the Arc basin by U-Pb magnetostratigraphy-geochronology coupling: implications for the identification of global palaeoclimatic events in the Palaeocene-Eocene
- Recording of the palaeoclimatic transition from the Kimmeridgian to the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) in the neritic carbonates of Provence: sedimentological, diagenetic and geochemical approaches
- Calibration of «hydraulic types» by measuring the physical properties of rocks at different scales (samples - outcrops): implications for the infiltration capacity and desilting of the Aix Marseille Provence Metropolis.
- Interpretation of facies using neural networks from images and photogrammetric data: the case study of Salta (Argentina)
- Prediction of fault dilation from stress parameters
Internship topics (2023-2024)
Earth and Planets
Climate
Sustainable Environment
Resources, Reservoirs and Hydrosystems
Internship subjects 2022-2023
Earth and Planet
Modelling the evolution of an earth impact crater: erosion and geophysical signal
Reconstructing the history of the solar nebula's magnetic field using meteorites
Meteorite flux to Earth since 2 Ma
Geoarcheology of the ancient site of Beaucaire (Sud-Canal 3) and its paleoenvironmental context in the alluvial plain of the Rhône between Beaucaire and Fourques
Natural glasses from Pica, Atacama desert (Chile): impact or not impact?