Research teams involved with IM2E

Team: Mining pollution, environment & health

Led by: C. Casiot, CNRS corinne.casiot-marouani@umontpellier.fr

Team: Emerging contaminants

Led by: E. Gomez, UM maria-elena.gomez-hernandez@umontpellier.fr

Team: Water-borne pathogens, health & environment

Led by: E. Bilak, UM estelle.bilak@umontpellier.fr

Team: Urban pollution and hydrology

Led by: M.G. Tournoud, UM marie-george.tournoud@umontpellier.fr

Team: Water, climate change and societal demand

Led by: Valérie Borrell, UM valerie.borrell@umontpellier.fr

Team: Transfers in eco-hydrosystems

Led by: Bernard Cappelaere, IRD bernard.cappelaere@umontpellier.fr

Team: Karst and heterogeneous aquifers

Led by: C. Batiot, UM christelle.guilhe-batiot@umontpellier.fr

Team: Multi-scale study of transfers in heterogeneous environments

Led by: V. Guinot, UM vincent.guinot@umontpellier.fr

Team: Extreme events

Led by: L. Neppel, UM luc.neppel@umontpellier.fr

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I M 2 E R e s e a r c h f i e l d s Hydrosystems: water pathways and resources

Dynamics of contaminants and responses by aquatic systems

Metrology and innovative treatment processes

Hydro-climatic risks

I M 2 E E M E R G I N G I S S U E S Viabi-lity and interactions in hydrological regions. Water resources and prospective scenarios.Water preservation, savings and reuse through technological innovation. Risks, contaminants and health.

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I. Determining how the chemical transformations of contaminants, the adaptation and emergence of pathogens, their tranfert impact the environmental resources and further human health.

II. Deciphering how climate change impacts the regional water balance between natural resources and economic demand using integrated modeling methods.

III. Understanding hydrological processes and interactions between land, vegetation and atmosphere in semi-arid ecosystems (West African and Mediterranean countries).

IV. Understanding and modelling heterogeneous aquifers (karst, fractured media...)

Mainland France

New CaledoniaCaribbean

BoliviaChile

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Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia

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Geochemistry: Water Chemistry Laboratory and “Analysis of Trace Elements in the Environment” (AETE-ISO) facility, managed by OSU OREME.

Emerging contaminants: Analysis of organic micro-pollutants in water, sediments and organisms.

Microbiology laboratory: Analysis of interactions between micro-organisms and metalloids in contaminated environments, and analysis of microbial populations in aquatic ecosystems.

Academic and industrial partners

Examples of partnership projects

ANR partnership:FLOODSCALE project

Understanding and simulating flash floods using multi-scale hydro-meteorological observation and modelling

TOTAL partnership:“Anisotropy: Scale transfer of permeability properties in anisotropic sedimentary environments”

Permeability field of reservoirs ; water resource management; hydrocarbon production ; circulation models ; runoff distribution.

ANSES partnership“Feasibility of using metabolomics to demonstrate emerging conta-minant exposure markers”

Using markers as a new way to monitor environment quality.

Platforms and Equipments

Permanent water observatories in Mediterranean and tropical regions:AMMA-CATCH, GLACIOCLIM, SNO KARST, OHMCV, OMERE, OHM Littoral Méditerranéen, mine observatories in France (Carnoulès) and New Caledonia, OSU OREME

International Joint Research LaboratoryTREMA IRD International Joint Laboratory (Morocco)NAILA IRD International Joint Laboratory (Tunisia)

Current PhD projects:

Using metabolomics to characterise aquatic organism exposure to drug residues and to study the associated

metabolic disorders.Bénilde BONNEFILLE

Using remote sensing to study and model the water cycle in the Sahel.

Aubin ALLIES

How climate change affects rainfall, water flow and extreme flooding in meso-scale catchments in the Mediterranean

region of France.Antoine COLMET DAAGE

Identifying allochthonous and autochthonous contributions to heterogeneous aquifer recharge in arid environments.

Benoît VIGUIER

Diversity of antibiotic-resistant opportunistic pathogenic bacteria in peri-hospital environment.

Ayad Qasim Mahdi ALMAKKI

highlights: Scientific and/or technical

Laboratoire HydroSciences Montpellier, UMR UM CNRS N°5569, IRD 050Dir: Patrick SEYLER IRD | patrick.seyler@ird.fr | Tél. : 04 67 14 90 82Dep. Dir: Hélène FENET UM | helene.fenet@umontpell ier.frMSE • Place Eugène Bataillon CC057 • 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 | www.hydrosciences.org

France • Météo-France• Schapi• EMA• PIA• Région• IAMM• BRGMSCHAPIInternational • WMO• UNESCO

Industrial • VEOLIA• CEREG Ingéniérie• EGIS• TOTAL• GOODYEAR• BRLingénièrie• Berger-Levrault• EMCC_groupe Vinci• Hazel-Bec• Sols Méditerranée• Pole Eau• Swelia

Direction

Mediterranean

Impact

AnthropogenicModelling

Eco-hydrosystems

ClimateTropical

Mines

TransfersContaminantsPathogens

ScenarioWater

Keywords: Hydrogeology

Hydrology