About us

The Ocean Physics and Satellite oceanography lab (LOPS) was born in January 2016 from the merger of LPO (http://wwz.ifremer.fr/lpo) LOS (http://wwz.ifremer.fr/los) and part of DYNECO (http://wwz.ifremer.fr/dyneco). LOPS is a joint research unit affiliated to 4 French research and higher education institutions, CNRS (www.cnrs.fr), Ifremer ( www.ifremer.fr), IRD (www.ird.fr) and the University of Brest (UBO, www.univ-brest.fr).

The LOPS is also part of the European University Institute of the Sea ( IUEM )since 2006.