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Tropical montane areas of Southeast Asia are exposed to high-intensity rainfall during the monsoon period. This is particularly problematic in areas where soils on steep slopes are cultivated as it can lead to heavy runoff, high soil erosion, and water pollution. The objective of this study, performed in the Houay Pano catchment (M-TROPICS/MSEC in Laos), […]
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Tripti MUGULI (DST-INSPIRE Faculty at National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India) is visiting the laboratory Géosciences Environnement Toulouse since October 4th until December 21st, 2018, within the ANR-ATCHA project. She previously worked as a SERB-DST National PDF (2017-2018) on the research project ‘Carbon and nitrogen gaseous emissions from irrigated agriculture: Kabini Critical Zone […]
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M-TROPICS is one of the 21 CZOs part of OZCAR, the French network of environmental observatories aiming at monitoring the various compartments of the critical zone over the long term. The position paper of OZCAR has been published in Vadose Zone Journal and is available here (open access).
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Three researchers involved in M-TROPICS CZO went to South Korea from November 26 to December 6 within the French-Korean Campus France-funded project “Investigating fate and transport of microbial pathogens in freshwater-environment”. Emma Rochelle-Newall (IRD – iEES Paris), Olivier Ribolzi (IRD – GET), and Laurie Boithias (CNAP – GET) met Prof. Yongeun PARK at Konkuk University in […]
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Guillaume MASSELIS is a former student of the ENSEGID, with a specialization in environmental sciences and environment management. During his 6-month internship at BRGM he worked on soil erosion and landslide issues. Now he just started his VI at iEES Paris, within the M-TROPICS critical zone observatory, and was posted at SFRI in Hanoi with […]
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Layheang Song is a former student from both the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (Diploma of Engineering in water resources and rural infrastructure) and the University of Montpellier 2 (Master degree in Hydrology Risks and Environment). He did his master’s internship at the HSM laboratory on the hydrological modelling of small glaciated basins in the […]
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Headwaters are hotspots of carbon dioxide (CO2) evasion from rivers. While emerging evidence suggests that groundwater contributes disproportionately to CO2 in headwater streams, the processes of CO2 delivery to streams and subsequent evasion to the atmosphere remain largely unknown. This study, partly based on CO2 measurements along the Houay Pano stream in Northern Laos (M-TROPICS/MSEC), […]
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Norbert Silvera (IRD-iEES Paris) and Laurie Boithias (CNAP-GET) visited the 3 catchments in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam to meet local colleagues and students, and to collect monitoring data and samples. In Houay Pano (Laos) together with Olivier Ribolzi (IRD-GET), Anne Pando (IRD-iEES Paris) and Bounsamai Soulileuth (IRD-iEES Paris) they evaluated the extent of the landslides […]
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From 26 October to 2 November 2018, in situ measurements of dissolved methane concentrations were carried out in the water column of the Maethang irrigation reservoir by three scientists from the iEES Paris joint research unit (Sylvain Huon, Véronique Vaury, and Jean-Louis Janeau). Water and gas samples were also collected to perform stable carbon isotope […]