Optional courses S3

This course is based on numerous concrete examples presented by specialists and environmental experts working in engineering offices and companies, EPIC, or research institutes in the water and environment sector. The courses include a field day dedicated to the characterization of the physical properties of rivers and aquifers, as well as to various hydrometric measurement techniques. Specific sessions giving the necessary basis for the exploitation of hydrological and hydrogeological data acquired in situ will also be offered.

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The content of the module is organized into six sequences:

1) EU Introduction: scientific and operational issues of biogeochemical and water quality issues in agricultural watersheds;

2) Physicochemical and hydrological processes determining the availability and mobility of plant protection products in a watershed;

3) TD: modelling tutorials on the transfer of phytosanitary products;

4) Biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus in agro-systems ;

5) Nitrogen cycling and balance in agricultural watersheds;

6) TD : Evaluation of the nitrogen balance in a catchment area, diagnosis of the contamination of surface water

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