Draft:HydroSciences Montpellier (HSM)

HydroSciences Montpellier
HydroSciences Montpellier (HSM) is a Research Unit (UMR) of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (ESR), under the supervision of the University of Montpellier, the CNRS, the IRD and a hosting agreement with IMT Mines Alès. HSM is located on the HYDROPOLIS site and in a building belonging to the Faculty of Pharmacy on the University of Montpellier campus. The Unit shares one of the buildings with the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers (OSU) OREME and the ICIREWARD UNESCO Centre.

Research area
HSM's main objectives are to study and predict the impacts of climate and human activities on the water cycle and their feedback on humans and ecosystems. HSM is a multidisciplinary joint research unit in the field of interactions between water, environment and health, covering a broad spectrum of topics in quantitative hydrology, water biogeochemistry and biological and medical sciences.

Organisation of the lab
Research is organised around three themes:


 * Eco-hydrology of the critical zone
 * Water in the city
 * Environmental and health challenges

The laboratory is organized into six teams:


 * Hydrology, eco-hydrology, climate (HEC)
 * Hydrogeology and transfers in karstic and heterogeneous aquifers (HYTAKE)
 * Hydrology and Urban Hydraulics (H2U)
 * Pollution, Environment, Health and Territories (PENSTER)
 * Emerging contaminants (CONTEM)
 * Waterborne Pathogens, Health and the Environment (PHYSE)

HSM has around 180 employees, including 120 permanent staff (researchers, teacher-researchers, engineers and technicians) and 60 non-permanent staff (doctoral and post-doctoral students).

International partnership
HSM is involved in research in France, the French overseas departments and territories (DROM-COM) and internationally, particularly in the Maghreb, West Africa and the Andes. Several of its IRD researchers are based on the university partners in the South, including the Université Nangui Abrogoua in Côte d'Ivoire, the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in Bolivia and FLACSO in Ecuador.

Observatories and contributions
HSM is involved in numerous observation programs in France (OREME, Observil, Ozcar, SNO Karst, OHM-LM, OPALE) and abroad (AMMA CATCH). HSM actively participates in the management of the MINERWA, REZOC and ALTIPLANO international joint laboratories.

Analytics platforms
HSM benefits from expert analytical platforms for the analysis of inorganic elements (ABIHS), organic compounds (PONTEM) and microbiological agents (Mi2H).


 * ABIHS is expert for analysing inorganic elements, including unconventional isotopes and stable isotopes of the water molecule.
 * PONTEM has the analytical tools required for metabolomics approaches (LC-HR-MS).
 * Mi2H is a microbiological analysis platform, including microbial culture, genetic and genomic techniques for studying bacteria of human or environmental origin and antibiotic resistance transferts.

History
HSM was founded in 2000. The unit was successively headed by Eric Servat (2000-2014), Patrick Seyler (2015-2020), Patrick Lachassagne (2020- )

Scientific production
https://hal.science/HSM