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

WWW-YES-2009-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)