Floriann Langlet, a master student from the Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, just finished his internship at GET laboratory. He analyzed the occurrence of bacterial pathogens along the Mekong river basin (M-TROPICS/MSEC) and found that soil type, discharge, and turbidity were among the key variables associated to E. coli concentration in the rivers.
A book authored by Yves AUDA has been published, handling the analysis of the critical zone with open-source softwares GRASS and QGIS: field sampling, hydrological models, landscape analysis, remote sensing mapping, digital elevation models, etc. Theory and exercises are based on data from the M-TROPICS/MSEC CZO in Northern Laos, gathered within the TecItEasy ANR project. […]
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