Events

Renewal of the MoU between DLAM and IRD

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, […]

Inauguration of the SMART station in Ban Laksip

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

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 […]

Inpeng Saveng presented her PhD work at IRD LMI Days 2024

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 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.