Agenda

• Quarterly activity report
• Commitments wrt the SIC (Surfaces & Interfaces continentales) board
• Data workgroup: checkpoint
• Scientific animation

On 17 March, a short meeting will be held at the European Institute for Membranes (EIM). The Urban Observatory will be presented and collaboration paths will be explored.

On 2 February 2021, France 3 Languedoc-Roussillon broadcasted a report about “Montpellier, captital city of water” . Part of it focused on our observation tasks over the Verdanson-Lez catchment.

The shooting took place on 1 February 2021. The sequence features the main two observation tasks at present: high-density rainfall measurement and flow monitoring.

This 30 second sequence can be viewed from 12’19” onward as online streaming in the 2 February 2021 news.

On 18 January 2021, the “Water and the City” meeting gathered 15 participants. The agenda focused mainly on a debate over the developments in 2021.

Marlène Rio’s PhD defence was held on 17 December 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Title of the Thesis (in French) :

Flux de contaminants dans un bassin versant côtier méditerranéen lors d’évènements pluvieux : quels bénéfices de la désimperméabilisation des espaces urbanisés ? – Etude à différentes échelles sur la zone de Montpellier

Panel composition :

• Sylvie BARRAUD, Prof. l’INSA de Lyon, UMR DEEP
• Ghassan CHEBBO, Research Director Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, Prof Lebanon University
• Laure MATON, Public Policy & head of Strategy at Direction de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
• Vincent GUINOT, Prof. Université de Montpellier, UMR HSM
• Christian SALLES, Assoc. Prof., UMR HSM (co-supervisor)

Invited personalities :

• Christelle GRAMAGLIA, Researcher, UMR GEAU, (co-supervisor)
• Samuel ROBERT, Reserach Director CNRS, UMR ESPACE (head of OHM Littoral Méditerraneen)

The meeting will be held on 01/18/2021, 09:45 – 11:15. Agenda to be announced.

J. Carreau, V. Guinot. A PCA spatial pattern based artificial neural network downscaling model for urban flood hazard assessment. Advances in Water Resources, 2021, 147, 103821. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103821), (hal-02903282v2).