The Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM (Geodynamical, hydrological and biogeochemical control of erosion/alteration and material transport in the Amazon basin) operates since 2003, answering an invitation to bid from the French Ministry of Higher education and Research. The aim of the OREs is to provide the research community with the high quality scientific data needed to understand and model the systems behavior and their long-term dynamics.

 

Proposed by a research team of the LMTG (Laboratoire des Mécanismes de Transferts en Géologie-UMR 5563 CNRS-UPS-IRD) which is conducting research projects in hydro geodynamics in the Amazon basin since 1995. HYBAM ORE also collaborates with local institutions (national agencies and universities) to insure the sustainability of the observation data. Since 2011, the ORE-HYBAM is a component of the GET (Geosciences Environnement Toulouse) (UMR 5563 CNRS / IRD UR 234 / UPS / CNES), Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP).

 

These data are freely available at HYBAM ORE web site (Direct access to data or Data item in the horizontal menu).

News

Oral Presentations of the Fourth Scientific Meeting of the ORE HYBAM, occured in Lima (peru) in September 2011, available here.

You are on the new website of the ORE HYBAM, launched in December 2009. To access the old site: click here.

Wiley Interscience Content Alert: Hydrological Processes 23, 22 (30 October 2009). Special Issue: Flow and Sediment Dynamics of Large Rivers. Issue Edited by J. L. Guyot, D. E. Walling

Photos

Bateau utilisé lors des campagnes de terrain

Graph sample obtained using the Data item

River terrasse along the Beni river