Events

Ratboren Chan started his PhD within M-TROPICS on the effect of geomorphological features and land use change on stream flow and water quality in Lao PDR

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 […]

IRD ECOBIO Department visited M-TROPICS study sites in Lao PDR

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 started her PhD within M-TROPICS on the role of headwater wetlands in driving the transfer of fecal bacteria in tropical mountain streams in Laos

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 […]

M-TROPICS in Laos has set up its new water quality laboratory within DALaM partnership

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 […]

M-TROPICS was in the spotlight at the OZCAR annual meeting 2022

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.

Handing over of equipment to DALaM and MouNoy Dev

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 […]

Dissemination of pathogenic bacteria in tropical hydrosystems: transport and fate of Escherichia coli in the Mekong watershed in Lao PDR

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 […]

Land use, surface runoff, soil erosion: multi-scale impact assessment of teak tree plantation management in a tropical humid mountainous agro-ecosystem

Layheang Song, PhD student within M-TROPICS CZO, defended his thesis today at GET. His thesis work was under the international double degree program between the University Paul Sabatier and the Institute of Technology of Cambodia. Soil erosion is one of the most concerning environmental problems on the global scale. Soil erosion is increasingly driven by […]

Renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding with DALaM in Lao PDR

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 […]