Asakura Field work with French and Tokyo U. Researchers

In the aftermath of the 2017 Asakura heavy-rain disaster, we started research in collaboration with Japanese teams, long-time colleagues from France and a team of Master students and PhDs.

SABO is the science, engineering and art of sediment disaster risk reduction. It has no real equivalent in the Western part of the world, nor outside Asia. Although its detractor are often criticizing its impact on landscapes and ecological continuity, new solutions are today being developed, and one has to remember that it is a necessary response for island countries that sit on earthquake, heavy rainfalls, typhoons and heavy snowfall regions, even more so because short river system drain steep drainage basins.

Charlene Simataa (on a co-tutelle PhD with us) published her research in the Q1 paper Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. Congratulation

Sho Sawada’s first international paper on pumices buoyancy is out in Forum Geografi (indexed in Scopus)

New paper on Gully erosion in Iran has just been published in Ecological Engineering (IF 4.29)

New tsunami collaborative paper accepted in Sustainability (Q1 IF3.89)

Huazhu Zheng joins us for a year to continue his work on multiple use of water resources.

Caihong Li join the Lab for 1 year