Estimating pesticide losses to surface water and groundwater across large areas

• Post-doc researcher; Biogeophysics and water quality group, Department of Soil and Environment, SLU.
  
• PhD in soil science (AgroParisTech, 2007)
• MSc in Soil Science (INPL-AgroParisTech, 2004)
• Agriculture Engineer (ISA Lille, 2003)

Work at SLU

• Since 2009: Postdoc: CKB / FoMa: (follow-up of the FOOTPRINT project at SLU). Tools for large scale modeling of pesticide fate in soils and evaluation of pesticide transfer risks at the regional scale. Batch parameterisation, modeling & postprocessing of the MACRO model in Sweden.
• 2008: Postdoc: FOOTPRINT EU FP6 project. Validation of FOOTPRINT sets of pedotransfer functions for water and solute transport in soils.

Area of expertise

• Pesticide fate in soils:

• Field and laboratory measurements of soil and pesticide properties;
• Modelling (MACRO);
• Preferential flow in soils;
• Good understanding of the tight relationship between soil variation and pesticide fate at the landscape-scale.
  

• Pedometrics applied to water flow and solute transport in soils

• Pedotransfer functions for the parameterisation of pesticide fate models from easily available soil data;

• Computing. Data management and processing:

• R language for Statistical Computing (including Sweave, writing R packages, Fortran subroutines, etc.);
• Databases: MS Access, SQLite & SQL;
• User of: ArcGIS, Subversion, Trac, MySQL, LaTeX (intermediate level)
  

Teaching experience at SLU (occasional)

• R beginner course for SLU Centre for Chemical Pesticides (CKB) (3 days, 2009).
• MS Access and R beginner course for SLU Focus on Soil and Water Graduate School (4 days, 2010).

Miscelaneous

• Creator & maintainer of a geographical directory of soil science research groups around the world. Geo-reference more than 350 groups in 67 countries. CC-By-SA 3.0.
  
• Creator & maintainer of the R package 'soiltexture' ("The Soil Texture Wizard"), a package for plotting soil texture triangle & classifying soil texture data, with 11 pre-defined texture classification systems. GNU-GPL 3.
• Creator & maintainer of the packages soilwaterfun and soilwaterptf implementing commonly used functions for soil water retention, soil hydraulic conductivity and some pedotransfer functions for parameterising them from easily avialable soil properties.

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