WWW-YES-2009-France
8th edition of the World Wide Workshop for Young Environmental Scientists (WWW-YES-2009-France)
2 - 5 June 2009 at Arcueil, France
General programme
The WWW-YES-France-2009 workshop has taken place from Tuesday 2nd June 2009 to Friday 5 June 2009 from 8:30 to 18:00 at Communaute d’Agglomeration du Val de Bievre, 7-9 avenue François Vincent Raspail, 94 114 Arcueil (South of Paris).
1/ Oral research presentations (2 to 4 June 2009)
Each participant has prepared a 10 min scientific presentation, in English, on his / her research project and was ready for 30 min detailed scientific discussion during the workshop, also exclusively in English, chaired by the workshop participant in charge of reviewing his/her manuscript.
The oral presentation (ca. 10 slides) especially focused on:
- The scientific context of the research subject,
- The research questions that are expected to be answered during the PhD preparation, together with their environmental justification,
The field and/or lab and/or model methodologies that are currently or will be used, together with their justification for addressing the questions presented before, - One or two major results obtained so far,
- The planned research activity till the end of the PhD (or after its termination, in the case of a PhD which is already finished).
Workshop participants were reminded of the large diversity of background knowledge within their colleagues, i.e. from natural to human sciences: thus these oral presentations were extremely clear and well illustrated, allowing non-specialists of the research field to understand the raised environmental questions and the applied methods.
Each participant received on 27 April 2009 a manuscript to review, using a referee report form: this review was expected to be filled and sent back prior to 18 May 2009 to Daniel Thevenot, who then sent these reports to the author of the refereed manuscript. Thus WWW-YES-2009-France participants were ready, after their oral presentation, to answer to comments and questions raised by his/her referee.
A printed version of the proceedings draft version was given to each participant upon arrival.
2/ Field visit (3 June 2009)
A half-day technical visit is organised on 2 sites of the Bievre river which upstream reach is natural (open air) whereas its lower part is underground (urban run-off sewer). One of the environmental goals of the Communaute d’Agglomeration du Val de Bievre (CAVB), hosting the WWW-YES-2009-France workshop, is to progressively "re-open" the Bievre River in its lower part. Two significant Bievre river/sewer equipments have been visited: Parc des Pres (Fresnes) where the river has partially returned to its original open-air course and avenue Floquet retention system (L’Hay-les-Roses) where underground and surface retention tanks prevent flooding during storm events. This visit was accompanied by a senior scientist to ensure the transfer of knowledge.
Detailed workshop programme including the presentation and the manuscript files when available (13 papers published within the 16 presented)
Tuesday 2 June
Conf. nbConf. timeFAMILY NAME First Name UniversityTitle of presentation
8:30 | THEVENOT | Daniel | Universite Paris-Est | WWW-YES-2009 participants welcome | ||
9:15 | MEIER | Olivier | Val-de-Marne county | Official opening of the 8th WWW-YES workshop | ||
9:30 | METAIRIE | Christian | Val-de-Bievre municipalities cluster | Official opening of the 8th WWW-YES workshop | ||
9:45 | Presentation of each WWW-YES-2009 participant | |||||
10:30 | Break |
Session 1. Integrated water management (flood vulnerability)
Conf. nbConf. timeFAMILY NAME First Name Nationality UniversityTitle of presentation and paper Paper chairperson and reviewer
1 | 11:00 | ELEUTERIO | Julian | Brazilian | Ecole Nationale du Genie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement de Strasbourg | Uncertainty on flood damage assessment: the challenges of assessing and combining hydraulic and vulnerability data | RIOUST Emilie |
2 | 11:40 | RIOUST | Emilie | French | Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Resilience of sewage service to climate uncertainty. Analysis of the management of sewer overflows in Parisian subrubs | ELEUTERIO Julian |
Session 2. Integrated water resource management
Conf. nbConf. timeFAMILY NAME First Name Nationality UniversityTitle of presentation and paper Paper chairperson and reviewer
4 | 12:20 | EWEMOJE | Temitayo | Nigerian | University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria | Potentials and projections of freshwater resources in Sub-Saharan Africa; focus on Nigeria (paper) | OUTTARA Koffi Nouho |
13:00 | Lunch | ||||||
14:15 | Group set-up | ||||||
7 | 14:45 | MEDINA | Marcos Walter | Argentina | Universidad de Deusto | The cooperativism and the management of the water in average cities in Argentina. The sample of de City of Obera (paper) | OMRANI Nizar |
8 | 15:25 | OMRANI | Nizar | Tunisian | University of Karlsruhe | Dilemma of fossil water management within Southern Tunisia oases: vulnerability to salt under intensive use context (paper) | MEDINA Marcos Walter |
9 | 16:05 | RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ | Juan Pablo | Colombian | Imperial College London | Integrated management and modelling in urban drainage systems: the potentialities in a developing megacity (paper) | Van ROOIJEN Daniel |
16:45 | Presentation of project topics | ||||||
17:300 | End of session | ||||||
19:00 | Mardis de l’Eau: 2 documentary films on water in Niger and Mali (Espace Jean-Vilar, Arcueil) | ||||||
21:00 |
Wednesday 3 June
Conf. nbConf. timeFAMILY NAME First Name Nationality UniversityTitle of presentation and paper Paper chairperson and reviewer
10 | 8:30 | Van ROOIJEN | Daniel | Dutch | Loughborough University | Urbanization, water demand and sanitation in large cities of the developing world: an introduction to studies carried out in Accra, Addis Ababa and Hyderabad (paper) | RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ Juan Pablo |
11 | 9:10 | EL MUFLEH | Amelene | French | Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées | Characterisation and modelling of the interactions between pollutants and solid matrix in mixed contaminated urban soils (paper) | CARSTEA Elfrida |
12 | 9:50 | CARSTEA | Elfrida | Romanian | National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics | Evaluation of the anthropogenic impact on surface water systems: case of Lower Arges Basin, Romania (paper) | EL MUFLEH Amelene |
10:30 | Break |
Session 3. Water resource (hydrology)
Conf. nbConf. timeFAMILY NAME First Name Nationality UniversityTitle of presentation and paper Paper chairperson and reviewer
13 | 11:10 | METT | Michael | German | University of Innsbruck | Optical satellite pictures - The up to date source for discharge determination in arid countries (paper) | OUESLATI Ons |
14 | 11:50 | OUESLATI | Ons | Tunisian | Basilicata university- Potenza | Trend detection in river runoff across Mediterranean river basins: evaluation of results from Moroccan case study (paper) | METT Michael |
12:30 | Lunch | ||||||
14:00 | Technical visit of the Bievre river/sewer equipments: Parc des Pres (Fresnes) and avenue Floquet retention system (L’Hay-les-Roses) | ||||||
17:30 | Break and conference room set-up | ||||||
19:00 | Buffet diner | ||||||
19:30 | OLIVA | Jean Claude | French | Discussion moderator | Drinking water management: an international survey (presentation and discussion with Val de Bievre elected representatives and citizens): translation to/from English available | ||
21:00 | End of public conference |
Thursday 4 June
Session 4. Water resource (quality)
Conf. nbConf. timeFAMILY NAME First Name Nationality UniversityTitle of presentation and paper Paper chairperson and reviewer
16 | 8:30 | OUATTARA | Koffi Nouho | Ivorian | Universite Libre de Bruxelles | Microbiological water quality in rivers of the Scheldt drainage network (Belgium): impact of urban wastewater release (paper) | EWEMOJE Temitayo |
17 | 9:10 | POLARD | Audrey | Belgian | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Pollution control cost valuation for Scheldt watershed contamination | SINGH Vijaya |
18 | 9:50 | SINGH | Vijaya | Indian | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, INDIA | Toxicity analysis and public health aspects of municipal landfill leachate: a case study of Okhla landfill, Delhi (paper) | POLARD Audrey |
10:30 | Break |
Session 5. Water treatment
Conf. nbConf. timeFAMILY NAME First Name Nationality UniversityTitle of presentation and paper Paper chairperson and reviewer
19 | 11:00 | ZENG | Na | Chinese | University of Glasgow | Prospective application of microbial fuel cell technology in developing countries - taking China as an example (paper) | LIADY Mouhamadou Nourou Dine |
20 | 11:40 | LIADY | Mouhamadou Nourou Dine | Beninese | University of Liege (Belgium) & University of Abomey-calavi (Benin) | Contribution to the modeling of shellfish zooplankton production in wastewater stabilization ponds (WSP) (paper) | ZENG Na |
12:20 | Lunch | ||||||
13:35 | Thevenot | Daniel | Research cooperation project: introduction | ||||
13:50 | Research cooperation project: preparation | ||||||
19:00 | End of session |
Friday 5 June
Conf. nbConf. timeTitle of activity
8:30 | Research cooperation project: summary preparation | |
10:00 | Break | |
10:30 | Research cooperation project: presentation preparation | |
12:30 | Lunch | |
13:45 | Research cooperation project: presentation & discussion | |
16:15 | Research cooperation project: classification (ballot) | |
16:35 | Farewell drink | |
18:00 | End of workshop |