Ratboren Chan, PhD student at GET cosupervised by Laurie Boithias and Olivier Ribolzi at GET and by Layheang Song and Pinnara Ket at ITC, defended his thesis on November 3. His thesis is entitled “Effect of hillslope geomorphology and riparian wetland on hydro-sediment dynamics in a mountainous agro-ecosystem ofthe humid tropics” and was performed within […]
Inpeng Saveng, PhD student at GET cosupervised by Olivier Ribolzi and Laurie Boithias with the participation of Phouthasone Sibounnavong at NUoL, defended her thesis on October 23. Her thesis is entitled “Headwater wetlands: a key environment for the fate and transfer of faecal indicator bacteria in tropical mountain streams of the Mekong basin” and was […]
PHAM DINH Rinh has passed away on September 24, 2026. Rinh was a researcher in soil science and hydrology, Deputy Head of the Department of Soil and fertilizer analysis center, Soils and Fertilizers Research Institute (SFRI), Vietnam. He was a loyal partner in the MSEC program, which later became M-TROPICS. For this long-term research program, […]
On 19th June 2026, Mr Virana SONNASINH, Director General of the Department of Land Administration and Management (DLAM) and Dr Sabrina Locatelli representative of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) in Lao PDR, in the presence of the Deputy Head of the Ministry’s Office, Deputy Heads of Departments, representatives of relevant departments, […]
The Sustainable Mountain Agroecosystems Research and Training (SMART) station was inaugurated on Tuesday November 19, in the presence of the Vice-Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Dr. Chanthakhone BOUALAPHANE, Her Excellency the Ambassador of France in Lao PDR Ms. Siv-Leng CHHUOR, and the Vice-Governor of the Luang Prabang Province Ms. Siliphone SOUPHUNTHONG. The SMART station is […]
Do Anh Huy defended his Master’s thesis on September 18, dealing with the “Application of remote sensing for land use and wetlands mapping in Laos”, performed within the DinBuam ANR project and supervised by Alexandre Bouvet (CESBIO), Olivier Ribolzi (GET) and Pham Duc Binh (USTH), hosted at CESBIO and funded by the AST Zone Critique […]
On June 25 and 26, the IRD 2024 LMI Days were held in Marseille, focusing on South and Southeast Asia on the topic “Water as a common good: towards an integrated vision and sustainable solutions”. Inpeng Saveng (left in photo), PhD student at GET/UT3, presented her thesis work entitled “Headwater wetlands as a determinant of […]
Ratboren CHAN is a former student of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (Engineer’s degree), and of the Kasetsart University in Thailand (Master of Engineering). He just started his PhD at GET (funded by Campus France-French Embassy in Cambodia and ITC), within the M-TROPICS critical zone observatory and the ANR DinBuam project, with the aim […]
On November 22-23, Emma Rochelle-Newall and Jean-Christophe Avarre, head and deputy-head of the ECOBIO scientific department at IRD, respectively, along with Sabrina Locatelli, IRD Representative in Lao PDR, visited the various sampling and measuring sites of the M-TROPICS critical zone observatory, currently augmented by the different setups deployed by the ANR DinBuam research project. It […]