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Nowadays, water scarcity is a big challenge facing humanity in many places around the world. To solve this problem, municipal wastewater (WW) is thus considered to be an alternative water source for various applications after proper treatment. Nonetheless, urban WWs are increasingly contaminated wit

Effective sanitation of wastewater is a milestone in the development of mankind. As residents of the Western world, centralized wastewater treatment is taken for granted and dissociated from its high economic, energetic and environmental costs. Today, the primary objective of wastewater treatment is

A satellite communication system for climate monitoring and disaster prevention is proposed. The communication system is based on a reconfigurable RF transceiver capable of establishing inter-satellite communication as well as communication between the nano-satellite and terrestrial stations. The sy

The objective of this project is to produce a laser sensor dedicated to the analysis of ambient air. The technology used is quartz resonant spectroscopy (QEPAS). It employs a very inexpensive component, the quartz tuning fork (QTF) coupled to one or more infrared laser sources which address defined

Most of the existing forecast and early warning systems rely on the prediction of hydrodynamic conditions at the coast, or exceptionally on flood computations inland, but under deep simplifications. Recent scientific progresses now allow properly modeling coastal flooding events. Such models are nev

Despite all efforts made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global warming is on its process and is already leading to a lot of deep changes. Changes in temperature and precipitation, sea level elevation and increasing frequency of extreme weather events will considerably reduce global food product

This all integrated compact photonic albedometer consists of two main devices : (1) an innovative broadband optical cavity coupled to a high-sensitivity CCD spectrometer to form a BroadBand Cavity enhanced Extinctiometer (BBCE) for wavelength-resolved extinction measurements; (2) a multi-microphone

We propose the development and demonstration of an innovative, high resolution, low-cost optical (laser) seismometer aimed at improving the real-time monitoring for regions with high telluric hazard (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunmais...), as well as for areas of industrial undergro

The development of operational services dedicated to mitigate natural and anthropogenic risks is one of the objectives of this ANR call. In the frame of a previous project already led by SPE lab, IDEA (2010-2013 Forest-Fires, from combustion Emissions to Atmospheric transport), considered as a highl

Several studies indicate that the electrical activity should increase in warmer climate scenario with less numerous but more severe thunderstorms. The expected increase of dangerous electrical atmospheric phenomenon then requires defining at present the adaptation measures and strategies to anticipa

Large-scale deformation and flank instabilities of volcanoes represent a significant hazard because they can lead to major edifice destabilizations and large landslides. In an island environment, flank collapse can also trigger tsunami with catastrophic impacts on the coastline. Basaltic volcanoes a

We therefore propose to combine skills in general and microbial ecology, statistical physics, applied mathematics and environmental engineering to (i) solidify the theoretical ground of thermodynamic growth models (WP1), (ii) to mathematically explore their characteristic features compared to curren

Fecal pollution of drinking water, water used in food production or recreational water (lakes, swimming pools, rivers, etc.) can have significant health and economic impacts. Escherichia coli bacteria are considered to be one of the best indicators of microbiological water quality, and are used in f

Maize farming requires high amounts of N fertilizer, with adverse environmental effects and insufficient agronomic sustainability. Certain maize genotypes can be colonized endophytically by atmospheric nitrogen (N2)-fixing bacteria, but the agronomic potential of endophytic N2-fixation is not fully