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Mexico City (MC) is the home of 21.2M people, 19% of the country's population. The MC urban area has intense emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, which accumulate in the overlying air-shed due to the location of the city in a high-altitude basin surrounded by mountains. Local and national a

The conservation of biodiversity and its link with agriculture currently represents a major challenge. Observation data may be needed at large spatial or temporal scales to encompass a wide range of situations in order to achieve meaningful results. This implies that thousands of observers need to

Metallurgical slags are major by-products generated by the steel and iron industry. Although they represent potentially important economic resources, as they still often contain significant amounts of "Strategic Metals" (SMs), slags are also considered as industrial waste that may pose public health

INFILTRON Project aims at developing an experimental and modeling tool for the simultaneous characterization of the infiltration and filtering capabilities of urban soils. These two properties are crucial regarding the need for making cities more permeable while limiting the downwards transfer of po

Human settlements, industrial activities and agricultural runoffs continuously contaminate water resources with heavy metals, synthetic organic compounds and pathogenic organisms. In emerging countries, 80% of sewage water is directly discharged into water bodies and every year, an estimated 300-400

The SPIT-FIRE consortium has the objective to develop, build and characterise an Acousto-Optical Tuneable Filter (AOTF) system for optimised environmental markers identification, such as water sediment loads analysis or invasive species cartography. This system presents simultaneously two technical

Membrane processes have known a significant growth in wastewater treatment for several years as they are able to deal with water qualities and flow fluctuations that conventional processes cannot handle. Their development is nevertheless hampered by the problems of membrane fouling inherent in any m

The water crisis is the #1 global risk based on impact to society as announced by the World Economic Forum in January 2015 [1]. Indeed, groundwater is a scarce resource as it only account for 0.3% of the Earth's total freshwater reserves. And already, 663 million people - 1 in 10 - lack access to sa

Hydrogen is presented as the sustainable energy carrier of the future, as the cycle of hydrogen is one of the most ecologic among energy solutions. Hydrogen may be used to produce, store and transport energy and its possible applications are wide ranging. This proposal is devoted to the research on

The project BIOCOM aims to elaborate new anti-biofouling membranes by incorporating a natural bioactive molecule, vanillin as a model QS inhibitor, and characterize their properties and performances in the frame of water treatment. For this purpose, we identify three interconnected steps: i) Ela

The Arctic Ocean is the most vulnerable region with the strongest pH decrease compared to other regions of the ocean. However, there are very few direct pH measurements due to the lack of a system for continuous measurements although efforts are being made to develop such a system. As a consequence,

In order to address the critical lack of data on the dynamic and physical evolution of the seafloor (coastal erosion, tectonic or volcanic motions, gravitational instabilities, etc.), we propose to test a novel instrumental multi-physics setup based on Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing (DFOS). Through

The goal of LowNitrate is to design a passive microbial electrochemical technology applicable in artificial wetlands or other similar ecosystems for nitrogen (NO3-) removal. The system is based on the harvesting of diffuse energy from sediment to induce a low-cost and efficient denitrification. A ke