Organisation of workshops:
- « Colloque Giard 2008: Observation des ecosystèmes marins et terrestres de la Côte d’Opale » ; symposium organized for the centenary of the disparition of Alfred Giard, founder of the zoological station/marine laboratory of Wimereux, in 1874. The symposium was organized in Wimereux, France, July 2008.
- « Atelier du RNSM sur les mesures à haute fréquence dans l’environnement marin côtier » ; symposium organized in the framework of the national network of marine stations and laboratories (RNSM) of INSU/CNRS, Wimereux, France, 22-23 October 2009.
- « 26e Forum des Jeunes Océanographes de l’UOF» ; symposium organized together with the Union des Océanographes de France (UOF), Wimereux, France, 30 September-1st October 2010.
- « International Symposium on phytoplankton blooms in temperate coastal ecosystems »; Wimereux, France, 19-21 September 2011.
- «Instrumentation haute fréquence pour l’observation et la surveillance de l’environnement marin», Boulogne-sur-mer, France, 12-13 June 2014. Co-organisé avec Alain Lefebvre (Ifremer).
- « Colloque Annuel 2016 RESOMAR« , Boulogne-sur-mer and Wimereux, 21-23 November 2016. Co-organisé par François G Schmitt et Alain Lefebvre.
- « International Coastal Buoy Network workshop: from the buoy to the data« , online workshop, 23-24 November 2020. Co-organized by Diana Ruiz-Pino, Alban Lazar, Guillaume Charria and François G Schmitt.
- « MARCO 2021 »: colloque final du CPER MARCO, 13-15 Octobre 2021. Co-organisé avec Anne Brisabois (Ansès).
- « Ghymanche ; Géosciences et Hydrodynamique sur la façade Manche-Mer du Nord ; approche interdisciplinaire terre-mer » : colloque financé par l’Infrastructure de Recherche ILICO, 11-13 Octobre 2021, Wimereux. Organisé par Virginie Gaullier, Muriel Laurencin et François Schmitt.
- « Eghymanche ; Ecologie marine, Géosciences et Hydrodynamique sur la façade Manche – Mer du Nord« , Wimereux 5-7 juillet 2023. Organisé par François Schmitt, Virginie Gaullier et Sébastien Monchy.
- « 150 ans de recherches marines et littorales, en Manche et ailleurs« , Wimereux 3-5 juillet 2024.
- « Long term coastal in situ observation from automated platforms of small temporal and spatial scales« , Boulogne-sur-mer, 29-31 October 2025.
Organisation of summer schools:
- « International summer school on turbulence, plankton, and marine snow » (co-organizer); ERCOFTAC summer school, Barcelona, September 2008.
- « Active transport in the ocean : turbulence, chemistry and biology » (organisateur, avec E. Calzavarini et S. Berti); école d’été internationale du CNRS, 2-6 juillet 2018, à Wimereux.
Organisation of sessions in large conferences:
- EGS general assembly: Session « Scaling, Multifractals and Nonlinearity in Oceans and Atmosphere », at the General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) from 1995 to 2000.
- AOGS general assembly: Session IWG 08, Interdisciplinary Working Groups «Scaling and stochastic processes, nonlinear variability in the ocean and atmosphere», Asia Oceania Geosciences Society AOGS 9th annual meeting, Singapore, 13-17 August 2012.
- ECSA conference: Special session 12 « Long-term monitoring to record change in coastal and transitional waters : what to learn from existing monitoring and data analysis » , ECSA 55 Unbounded boundaries and shifting baselines, estuaries and coastal seas in a rapidly changing world, London, UK, 6-9 September 2015.
- AGU general assembly: sessions in the NG (nonlinear geophysics) division from 2011 to 2015.
- EGU general assembly: sessions in NP (nonlinear geosciences) division since 2007:
- EGU 2007: NP3.01 Scale, scaling and nonlinear variability in aquatic biogeosystems
- EGU 2008: NP3.01 Scale, scaling and nonlinear variability in aquatics sciences
- EGU 2009: NP3.1 Scale, scaling and nonlinear variability in aquatic sciences
- EGU 2010: NP3.3 Scaling and downscaling in aquatic systems, sub grid models and parameterizations
- EGU2011: NP3.1 Nonlinearity, scaling and complexity in the atmosphere, ocean and the climate system
- EGU2012: NP3.1 Nonlinear, scaling and complex physical and biogeophysical processes in the atmosphere and ocean
- EGU 2013: NP3.1 Scaling in atmospheric, terrestrial, oceanic and biogeophysical processes
- EGU 2014: NP3.1 Scales, scaling and extremes in the geosciences
- EGU 2015: NP 1.5 Geocomplexities and scales
- EGU 2016: NP3.3 Scale and scaling in the climate and in aquatic biogeochemical systems
- EGU 2017: NP6.2 Recent developments in geophysical fluid dynamics: waves, turbulence, transport and intermittency
- EGU 2018: NP3.1 Scaling, multi fractals and nonlinear dynamics in the atmosphere, ocean and environment
- EGU 2019: NP3.2 Scaling and nonlinear dynamics in the atmosphere, ocean and geosciences
- vEGU 2020: NP2.1 Nonlinear, Multiscale and Stochastic Dynamics of the Earth system
- vEGu 2021: NP3.1 Scaling, multi fractals and nonlinear dynamics in the atmosphere, ocean, hydrosphere and solid earth
- EGU 2022: NP0.1 Turbulence cascades in geosciences 100 years after Richardson 1922
- NP6.2 Turbulence and plankton
- EGU 2023: NP6.1 Turbulence, wave-currents interactions and other nonlinear physical processes in lakes and oceans
- EGU 2024: NP6.3 Lagrangian transport and turbulence in the atmosphere and ocean
- EGU 2025: NP6.1 Characterizing complex systems using Lagrangian and time series perspectives