Missions
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 […]
Events
Today October 17, 2018, Huong Thi LE successfully defended her thesis on the impacts of landuse change on stream microbial communities in rural, tropical catchments. Huong’s field work was performed within two M-TROPICS catchments: Houay Pano in Laos and Dong Cao in Vietnam. Her research was supervised by Thomas POMMIER (Ecologie Microbienne Lyon) and Emma […]
Events
Paty Nakhle is a former student from both the Lebanese University and the Agronomy Engineering School of Toulouse (ENSAT), with a specialization in environmental science. She also hold a joint ENSAT/Paul Sabatier University master degree Ecosystèmes et Anthropisation and performed her 6-month internship at GET laboratory, where she experimentally modelled the degradation of peat and […]
Conferences
An oral presentation was given at the annual SWAT International Conference in Brussels by Minjeong Kim, from UNIST, South Korea, about the modelling of E. coli: a research work using data of the Houay Pano catchment in Laos (M-TROPICS/MSEC), already published in the Journal of Environmental Quality (here).
Articles
Groundwater contribution to streamflow sustains biodiversity and enhances ecosystem services, especially under monsoon-driven climate where stream baseflow is often the only available water resource during the dry season. This study assessed how land use change influences streamflow and its groundwater contribution in the small headwater catchment of Houay Pano (M-TROPICS/MSEC) in the lower Mekong basin, […]
Articles
Land use change from annual crops to commercial tree plantations can modify flow and transport processes at the watershed scale, including the fate and transport of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), such as Escherichia coli. The objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive assessment of the impact of land use change on microbial transfer […]
Articles
High rainfall intensities on slopes produce runoff and erosion, but seeds are also carried down slope into streams by surface wash, causing weed infestation in lower parts of a river system. This interdisciplinary study was performed in the Houay Pano catchment (M-TROPICS/MSEC in Laos), farmed by smallholders and equipped with eight gauging stations. Main findings […]
Movies
A documentary film (Dong Cao, des racines & des Hommes, 9’04) featuring Jean-Luc MAEGHT (IRD) and PHAM Dinh Rinh (SFRI) has been shot within the Dong Cao catchment in Vietnam (M-TROPICS/MSEC) to highlight the long term monitoring of the CZO (climate, land use, hydrology, and soil erosion, root density, macrofauna, carbon), the benefits of erosion […]
Workshop
As a transverse action within the OZCAR research infrastructure, IGE organized a workshop on particulate fluxes measurement and monitoring within the critical zone. The long term monitoring of soil erosion, suspended sediments and bedload performed by M-TROPICS was presented, together with related research on land use change impact, river water color, sediment sources characterization, bacteria […]