ISTerre (Insitut des Sciences de la Terre/Institute of Earth Sciences) is a joint research unit comprised of 300 people. It o ... perates under the supervision of the CNRS, (University Grenoble Alps, University Savoie Mont Blanc, French National Research Institute for Development / French institute of science and technology for transport, development and networks), and is subsidiary of Observatory of Earth Sciences and Astronomy of Grenoble and of PAGE, a research center of Grenoble-Alpes University. Organized in 10 research teams, the primary goal of our research unit is the physical and chemical study of the planet Earth through a combiniation of observations of natural objects, experimentation, and the modeling of complex processes. ISTerre also supports observatory missions of solid Earth, is home to a centralized database, and maintains multiple national catalogues of geophysical instrumentation. read more