Missions
On September 19-25, Jean Riotte, Christelle Lagane, and Jean-Jacques Braun from GET/IRD participated to a field campaign at the Nsimi experimental watershed, monitored within the M-TROPICS CZO. Recently, the land use in Nsimi watershed has been changed to agriculture mixed with residual forest and fallow. The objective of the mission was thus to start the […]
Conferences
Muddu Sekhar (IISc Bengalore, CEFIRSE) and Laurie Boithias (GET) presented the key questions and findings from the two experimental catchments Berambadi (India) and Houay Pano (Lao PDR) at the Cyberseminar Series of CUAHSI: “Introduction to critical zone observatories and watershed sites” on Sept. 7. The introduction of the Berambadi catchment was focused on the effect […]
Events
On 9th of August 2021, Dr Nivong Sipaseuth, Director General of the Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALaM) of the Laotian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Dr Eric Deharo, Representative of IRD in Laos signed the renewal of an agreement of scientific and technical cooperation between the two institutions. The signature of this agreement confirms […]
Articles
This new paper, at the interface between environment and health, shows that groundwater contaminated by agricultural inputs from the Indian site of Berambadi (M-TROPICS observatory), significantly impacts the brain development of mice when given to pregnant or lactating mice: fewer neurons, fewer astrocytes (white blood cells in the brain), and more dead cells in the […]
Articles
Fecal indicator bacteria like Escherichia coli (E. coli) are widely used to assess water contamination, but their behavior in tropical ecosystems is poorly documented. The main objectives of this study led by Paty Nakhle, PhD student at GET in collaboration with iEES Paris, were to: (i) evaluate decay rates (k) of the total, particle-attached and […]
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The CZO M-TROPICS (Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS) investigates the response of tropical catchments to global change based on long-term collection of meteorological, hydrological, sedimentary, geochemical, and land use data in partnership with academic and governmental institutions in various tropical countries. M-TROPICS includes in particular the experimental watersheds of Nyong in Cameroon (1994-), Houay Pano in Lao […]
Conferences
Jean Riotte (IRD) presented the key questions and findings from the three experimental catchments Nyong (Cameroon), Mule Hole (India), and Houay Pano (Laos), at the Cyberseminar Series of CUAHSI: “Research and Observatory Catchments: the Legacy and the Future” on March 10. This presentation is related to the submission of three data papers to the eponymous […]
Articles
In tropical montane South-East Asia, recent changes in land use have induced increased runoff, soil erosion and instream suspended sediment loads. Land use change is also contributing to increased microbial pathogen dissemination and contamination of stream waters. Escherichia coli (E. coli) is frequently used as an indicator of faecal contamination. Field rain simulations were conducted […]
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This Special Issue published in the Water journal and co-authored by Olivier Ribolzi (IRD-GET) shows the great interest of the scientific community in investigating how to characterize the environmental impact of anthropogenic and climatic changes on Tropical and Mediterranean hydrology, and also in determining which is the main source of changes depending on the regional […]