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 […]
Inpeng SAVENG is a former student of the National University of Laos (Bachelor of Environmental Sciences), and of the Kyushu University in Japan (Master of Science). She just started her PhD at GET (funded by IRD-ARTS and Campus France-French Embassy in Lao PDR), within the M-TROPICS critical zone observatory and the ANR DinBuam project, with […]
The new water quality laboratory of M-TROPICS has been set up at DALaM in Vientiane. DALaM contributed with the premises and oven. Christelle LAGANE (IRD GET) installed both Milli-Q water supplier and ionic chromatography, and trained Khampaseuth XAYYATHIP (IRD DALaM) and Inpeng SAVENG (DALaM), who will be starting her PhD at GET on November 2023 […]
Emma Rochelle-Newall (iEES Paris-IRD) gave a talk as ‘Grand Témoin’ at the OZCAR annual meeting in Vogüé, Ardèche (March 7-10). She explained how sediment and their interactions with pollutants influence ecosystem and human health, and she took examples from the many studies carried out by M-TROPICS in Lao PDR and Vietnam.
As part of the long-term collaboration between IRD (UMRs iEES-Paris and GET) and its Lao partners, which has resulted into the implementation of several partnership instruments such as the JEAI-EcoRubber, the LMI LUSES, and more recently the PSF-Sud AgreesLao, GDRI CompacSol, as well as the CZO M-TROPICS and the SEALNET network, in January 2022 research/production […]
Paty Nakhle, PhD student within M-TROPICS CZO, defended her PhD thesis today at GET. Fecal contamination of surface water remains a major threat to public health especially in the rural areas of developing countries. Over 70 million people depend on unimproved water resources in the lower Mekong basin. Diarrheal diseases are a leading cause of […]