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Conferences

• 2025

  30 JUN 04 JUL
  I.S. Rivers 2025

  The I.S.Rivers international conference focuses on research and actions in the service of rivers and large rivers, whether natural or highly anthropized. It aims to promote a cross-fertilization of approaches and a dialogue between all stakeholders.

• 2024

  21 OCT 25 OCT
  International Congress in Ecology & Evolution

  The biennial meeting of the French Society of Ecology and Evolution, co-funded by H2O'Lyon, is a key event for the national and international scientific communities working in these fields.

• 2024

  22 MAY 24 MAY
  52ème Congrès du Groupe Français de Recherche sur les Pesticides

  Le congrès annuel du Groupe Français de recherches sur les Pesticides est un congrès francophone qui réunit la communauté scientifique impliquée dans des thématiques de recherches sur les pesticides et notamment ceux utilisés pour la protection des cultures.
  Cette 52ème édition est soutenue par l'EUR H2O'Lyon.

• 2023

  03 JUL 07 JUL
  NOVATECH 2023

  Novatech is an international conference organised in Lyon every three years on strategies and solutions for sustainable urban water management, with a focus on urban stormwater.

• 2023

  05 JUN 19 JUN
  I.S. RIVERS 2023

  In order to keep in touch between two conferences, the Graie and ZABR are offering a series of I.S. Rivers webinars in June 2023. They will lead to the next I.S. Rivers conferences in 2025. These webinars are organized in partnership with H2O'Lyon and Réseaux Rivières TV.
  
  Researchers, managers, technicians and decision-makers with an interest in rivers, these webinars are made for you!

• 2022

  06 NOV 10 NOV
  ICWS 2022

  Several topics will be addressed: wetland restoration, water pollution control, water reuse and resource recovery...

• 2022

  04 JUL 08 JUL
  I.S. RIVERS 2022

  The I.S.Rivers international conference focuses on research and actions in the service of rivers, whether natural or heavily anthropised. It aims to encourage a crossing of approaches and a dialogue between all stakeholders.

• 2021

  07 JUN 28 JUN
  I.S. RIVERS 2021
• 2020

  23 NOV 24 NOV
  13th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics

  The symposium is jointly convened by the International Association for Hydro-Environment engineering and Research (IAHR).
  
  A major objective of ISE 2020 is to combine outstanding science and management of aquatic ecosystems.
  Note that for ISE 2020 three special sessions will be designed to become special issues of the recently launched "Journal of Ecohydraulics".
  
  

• 2020

  03 NOV
  Conférence Ville perméable

  Les conférences Ville perméable ont pour thème la gestion intégrée de l’eau dans la ville, et particulièrement les solutions alternatives de gestion des eaux pluviales, les solutions fondées sur la nature et la mobilisation des acteurs pour un changement de paradigme.

• 2020

  25 JUN 26 JUN
  Effluents non domestiques

  Cette 11e édition mettra en lumière les actualités et retours d’expérience sur :
  
  - Les substances dangereuses dans les STEU du bassin Rhône-Méditerranée-Corse et le développement des approches sectorielles pour un meilleur suivi des effluents non domestiques.
  
  - Les activités industrielles et les rejets dans le réseau d’eaux pluviales.
  
  Collectivités et industriels s’associeront pour présenter leurs retour d’expérience sur le déversement au réseau pluvial.

• 2019

  07 NOV 08 NOV
  7th Water and Health Conference

  This 7th Water & Health Conference focuses on drugs and detergents-biocides in water.The 2-day conference brings together scientists and experts in the field, water managers and their partners, but also health professionals.This will be an opportunity to :- restore the knowledge acquired since 2010 in SIPIBEL and other research,- to share feedback about experience,- and to discuss research prospects and future action.

• 2019

  01 JUL 05 JUL
  NOVATECH 2019

  NOVATECH is a meeting organized every 3 years in Lyon on strategies and solutions for sustainable water management in the city, with a focus on urban stormwater. This 10th edition of the conference, co-organized by Graie, INSA Lyon and Métropole de Lyon, will be held at INSA, on EcoCampus LyonTech la Doua, from July 1st to 5th, 2019.

Summer School

• 2025

  06 OCT 10 OCT
  EcotoxicoMic Research School 2025

  Functional Experimental Approaches in Microbial Ecotoxicology

• 2024

  25 JUN 28 JUN
  H2O'Lyon Eco-Campus Summer School on Infiltration Processes

  After the success of the first edition in 2022, the new edition of the Eco campus summer school on Infiltration will be held from June 25 to 28 in Lyon!

• 2023

  30 JAN 03 FEB
  Preditox 2023

  This summer school aims to help ecotoxicologists, regulators, managers, NGOs and other stakeholders to improve their skills in modelling and statistical inference, especially for better analysis of their experimental bioassay data.

• 2022

  04 JUL 06 JUL
  Eco-Campus Summer School on Infiltration Processes

  You are a master or PhD student in the field of stormwater management, urban hydrology or ecological engineering? You are interested in how infiltration processes can be transferred into modelling? You want to exchange with students from different countries in your field and get in touch with internationally recognised researchers in the field? Then sign up for the Eco-campus summer school on infiltration processes from July 4th to 6th, 2022 in Lyon, France

• 2021

  05 JUL 09 JUL
  PREDITOX SCHOOL 2021

  In anticipation of what could happen with the sanitary context, as well as to allow international scientists to follow the summer school, we have planned an exclusively virtual session in combination with participants on site. Please note, however, that this virtual attendance will not allow for participation in the 'expertise' slots at the end of each day; these are only for those who will be in person on site.

• 2020

  06 JAN 10 JAN
  PREDITOX 2020

  The winter school aims to help ecotoxicologists, regulators, managers, NGOs and other stakeholders to improve their skills on modeling and on statistical inference, especially for a better analysis of experimental data from their biological tests.
  
  This winter school is supported by H₂O'Lyon.

• 2019

  05 SEP 06 SEP
  Doctoriales Sciences Sociales de l'Eau

  For their fourth edition, the Doctoriales en Sciences Sociales de l’Eau will be held at ENS Lyon. This international event will bring together doctoral students regardless of their year of enrollment and young researchers who have recently defended a thesis in social or human sciences.

Master Fellowship

• Sewers and wastewater: rethinking the negative commons with sewage workers

• Hydrography and hydro-agricultural techniques of the multi-millennial sites in the Bat/Al-Arid region (Sultanate of Oman)

2024

• How to compute the mixing of a pollution during an urban flood with a 2D code?
  

• Hydro-sedimentary distributed modeling of a peri-urban catchment.
  

• Multi-approach study of the relict population of white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) in the Razes stream in the context of habitat restoration and hydraulic works.
  

• Tufa expansion in the Cuisance catchment (Jura): an interdisciplinary study.
  

• Bioinformatic strategies for analyzing environmental metatranscriptomics datasets to monitor hydrosystem functioning.
  

2023

• Microbiological and physicochemical monitoring of Devesset lake (Ardèche) subject to summer proliferations of cyanobacteria.
  

• Characterizing micro-plastic particles in sewers and production of representative model particles.
  

• Integration of the water cycle in urban development projects at different scales.
  

• Impact of agricultural practices and land use on the spread of antibiotic resistance in surface water and soil in a rural watershed.
  

2022

• Detection of gully erosion patterns in tropical watersheds through remote sensing and machine learning.
  

2021

• Hydrography and hydro-agricultural techniques of the multi-millennial sites in the Bat/Al-Arid region (Sultanate of Oman).
  

• Balkan rivers landscapes, a geohistorical approach (Republic of North Macedonia, Greece, Albania).
  

• Sedimentary source detection and mapping by using multi-source data: contribution of satellite imagery for source inventory in anthropized mountainous area
  

• Mondragon-Les Ribaudes (Tricastin floodplain) : analysis of an hydraulic network and of the gaulish impact on the floodplains within the framework of the Paleo-anthropocene

• Pollution of the Rhone since 1970
  

2020

• Particules, Pesticides and Landscape (PULSE)
  

• Supporting the search for victims in rivers
  

• Chemical characterization of driftwood to determine its geographical origin for optimal valorization
  

2019

• Development of a protocol to characterize the topography of alluvial margins by LiDAR drone
  

Theses

• The CERISES project : Observation, Evolution, Regulation, Indicators, Society, Environment, Sciences

• Improving the characterisation of microplastics and plastic additives in the environment
  

• Braided rivers under global sediment mining pressure: an assessment of spatiotemporal patterns and environmental impacts
  

• Importance of plant-fungi interactions in vertical-flow Nature-based Solutions for stormwater treatment.
  

• ALLAGUI project: Changing practices in the design of urban stormwater solutions.
  

• Towards distributed river monitoring: the contribution of the environmental Internet of Things (eIoT) for soil erosion and suspended sediment studies in urban rivers

• PROOF-N : Development of an energy-efficient wastewater nitrogen recovery process under real conditions.
  

• Study of the transport of model microparticles in experimental set-ups representative of urban hydrosystems.
  

• Help Haïti Promote Infiltration (HHPI)

• Monitoring and modeling of nature-based solutions (stormwater trees) to estimate their long-term  hydrologic performance.
  

• Study of the behavior of model plastic micro-particles and trapping conditions in storm overflows structure in urban areas.
  

• The fate, transport and ecological consequences of the presence of microplastics in intermittent rivers.
  

• Assessment of the cyanobacteria risk, considering the invasive bryozoan Pectinatella magnifica.
  

• Post-Miocene geomorphological evolution of the western Alpine foreland basin (Rhône and Isère watersheds)
  

• Hedges influence on recharge processes and water transit times: geophysical time lapse and hydro-geophysic modeling

• Effects of urbanisation on floodplain ecosystems and biodiversity
  (the project is part of ANR GloUrb programme (2023-2026))

• Multi-scalar and continuous description, segmentation and classification of river reaches within hydrographic networks
  

• Socio-environmental issues in urbanizing floodplains
  (The project is part of ANR GloUrb programme (2023-2026))
  

• Large river ecosystem integrity: from the ecological study of ecosystem processes to the analysis of their integration by managers under the constraint of climate change
  

• Elaboration of a multicriteria decision system to assess the impact of management strategies regarding nature-based stormwater control solutions
  

• New concept of hydrological models for the water infiltration representation in nature-based solutions
  

• Effects of floating solar panels on the ecosystem functioning of small artificial waterbodies (SOLEFA)
  

• Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions in the Étangs de la Dombes region through development of best-management practices
  

• Spatio-temporal dynamics of the aquatic vegetation: Effects of hydrodynamic and hydrological conditions.
  

• Imprint of ultramafic catchments and effects of mining activities on interstitial biodiversity of New Caledonia Rivers.
  

• Characterization of tropical streams using benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Hotte Biosphere Reserve: a biogeographic and functional approach.
  

• Impact of exogenous sources of bacterial taxa and chemical pollutants on river biofilm community coalescence dynamics and their virulence gene loads.
  

• Development of bio-indicators for groundwater quality in karstic ecosystems.
  

• Looking at early stages of aquatic organisms to improve our understanding of ecological effects of hydropeaking.
  

• Pollutions caused by urban floods: characterizing past events and experimental & numerical modeling of overflows from sewer systems and accidental pollutions.

• Urban River Drownings: assisted rescue for victims in the Rhône and Saône rivers in Lyon.

• BEESINT - Achieving Good Ecological Status of INTermittent Socio-ecosystems: a challenge at the crossroads of social, scientific and managers perceptions.

• Impacts of dynamic, climate-driven water availability on tree water use and stress

• Comparative geoarchaeological study of the management of socio-environmental crises in arid/subarid tropical areas (Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, 30-36° and 15-16° N) by historical hydraulic societies.

• Biogeochemical approach for the evaluation and improvement of a distributed hydrological model in periurban areas

• For resilient cities : development of operational tools for decentralized management of urban waters
  

• Transfers and processes related to human and veterinary pharmaceutical residues and biocides from urban sludge and manure used as fertilizers
  

• Advancing environmental flow science for intermittent river management
  

• Coupling LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery for characterising fluvial corridors

• Historical reanalysis of Rhone flows at Beaucaire : extreme floods and climatic variability of flows

• Determinism of the development and toxicity of cyanobacterial biofilms in streams
  

Extension of Post-doctoral Fellowship

• Urban planning strategies for managing sewer system failures in Lyon: Modelling scenarios for implementing nature-based solutions under the “Lyon, Permeable City” framework.

2025

• Projections of hydrology and contaminant source contributions under changing climate and land use in a peri-urban catchment
  

• COSAR - Context-dependence of the societal and ecological outcomes from river ecosystem restoration
  

2024

• Transformations in territorial public action on water in the face of climate change in the Mediterranean mid-mountain region.
  

• Large wood dynamics in rivers
  

2023

• New indicators to monitor combined sewer overflow discharges and assess the ecological and sanitary outcomes on the receiving watercourses
  

• Restau’débat : Tools and methods for facilitating debates about river restoration
  

• Study of the mechanisms and performances of infiltration surfaces for treated wastewater effluents using woodchip-soil bioreactors
  

2022

• Wastewater treatment plant of the future: Capture and recovery of carbon from wastewater by high load biological process and chemically enhanced primary decantation - CAPTURE

• Airborne thermal infrared imaging, a knowledge tool for rivers in a context of global changes
  

• Using an isotopic approach to estimate dispersal distances of aquatic insects

2021

• River characterisation at global scale

• Toxicokinetic modelling for bioaccumulation of active substances within living organisms
  

2020

• Stream Metabolism
  

• Ecological Sensitivity Distribution (ESD): integrating molecular-based structural and functional microbial community responses in a new tool for environmental risk assessment of chemicals
  

Student International Mobility

• In situ analysis of clogging in water treatment membranes using confocal microscopy

2024

• Effect of coastal restoration on climate regulation services and associated microbial actors

2023

• Study of the role of extracellular polymeric substances in the capture of organic matter in high-load, full-scale and pilot activated sludge processes
  

• Development of a reprotoxicity biotest in the American amphipod Hyalella azteca
  

• Infiltration and nanotracer monitoring experiments on an Australian infiltration basin
  

2022

• Model hybridization for reliable decision support
  

• Anticipating and managing pollution caused by flooding in Quebec
  

• Summer school // Landscapes of the Rhône Valley: From Archaen to the Anthropocene
  

• Intensive Course in Soil Micromorphology

• Analysis of observations and numerical hydraulic modelling on the Spöl river (Switzerland)

2021

• Treatment and/or recovery of secondary flows at wastewater treatment plants: from measurement to modelling
  

Resident Researchers

• 
  MAXIME BOIVIN

  Geography, Canada

• 
  STEVE DUGDALE

  Geography, United Kingdom
• 
  GEORGE CONSTANTINESCU

  Civil & Environmental Engineering, United States
• 
  JOSEPH WHEATON

  Geomorphology, United States

• 
  PENG GAO

  Geography, United States
• 
  JAY P. ZARNETSKE

  Ecohydrology, United States

• 
  EDITH KAUFFER

  Political Science, Mexico
• 
  DAVID JOHN MILAN

  Geography, United Kingdom

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