WWW-YES-2013

13th edition of the World Wide Workshop for Young Environmental Scientists (WWW-YES-2013)

3 - 7 June 2013 at Arcueil, France

Introduction

The WWW-YES-2013 workshop will take place from Monday 3 to Friday 7 June, from 8:30 to 18:00, at Communauté d’Aglomération du Val de Bièvre CAVB (see venue). Except for Monday 3 June, all scientific sessions and lunches took place, in an informal way, within the meeting hall ’Salle du Conseil) of this local institution. On Monday 3 June, all activities will be held at Arcueil city hall (Hotel de Ville d’Arcueil) within the main meeting hall (Salle du Conseil). See detailed map and location addresses on the venue article).

WWW-YES workshop proceedings (draft PDF version): cover & text (6.2 Mb); a printed version will be distributed to all participants at workshop opening.

All authorised papers shall be published with the Open Source WWW-YES-2013 proceedings specific collection on HAL, together with their presentation file (when authorised by authors). Furthermore links towards these papers and presentation files will be included in the programme below.

Official opening of the workshop (Monday 3 June at Arcueil city hall)

Within a short morning session opened to hosting institutions at Arcueil city hall, the CAVB, the Arcueil municipality and the Conseil General du Val de Marne (CG94), the 13th edition of the WWW-YES workshop will be officially opened and participants will briefly introduce themselves, their academic institution and their ongoing research activity.

Oral presentations (3 - 6 June)

Each participant has prepared and uploaded prior to 4 April a 6-10 page manuscript following the suggested format.

Each participant will prepare a 10 min scientific presentation, in English, on his / her research project and be ready for 30 min detailed scientific discussion during the workshop, also exclusively in English, chaired by the workshop participant in charge of reviewing his / her manuscript.

The oral presentation (ca. 10 slides) and the extended following discussion will especially focus on:

• The scientific context of the research subject, 
• The research questions that are expected to be answered during the PhD preparation, together with their environmental justification, 
• The field and/or lab and/or model methodologies that are currently or will be used, together with their justification for addressing the questions presented before, 
• One or two major results obtained so far, 
• The planned research activity till the end of the PhD (or after its termination, in the case of a PhD which is already finished), 
• The significance and limitations of these methodologies for developing countries.

Workshop participants have been reminded of the large diversity of background knowledge within their colleagues, i.e. from natural to human sciences: thus these oral presentations are expected to be extremely clear and well illustrated, allowing non-specialists of the research field to understand the raised environmental questions and the applied methods.

Each participant has received a manuscript to review, using a referee report form issued from International Water Association (IWA): this review was expected to be filled and sent back prior to 5 May to Daniel Thevenot, who then sent these reports to the author of the manuscript. Thus WWW-YES participants are ready, after their oral presentation, to answer to comments and questions raised by his/her referee.

As for previous editions since 2006, all participants were offered to publish their paper in an Open Source specific WWW-YES-2013 collection on HAL.

A printed version of the proceedings draft version will be given to each participant upon arrival.

Field visit (Tuesday 4 June afternoon)

A half-day technical visit on urban water issues will be organised at several sites of Bièvre valley, upstream to Arcueil. Hervé Cardinal at the SIAVB (Verrieres-le-Buisson) will explain the river management upstream the highly urbanised part of the river where it becomes a domestic underground sewer. A visit of one of the hydraulic regulation lakes (Damoiseaux basin) will be conducted by Hervé Cardinal.

Then, participants will discover parts of the Bièvre River where it has been re-opened (in the middle of a newly designed park Parc des Pres) or will be re-opened (Cachan). Christian Metaire, vice-president of CAVB, will present and discuss this project with workshop participants.

This field visit will be accompanied by Daniel Thevenot to ensure the transfer of knowledge and the discussion with the representatives of the local water authority.

Scientific programme (3 - 7 June)

Monday 3 June at Arcueil city hall

Official opening of the workshop

Session 1. Water management

Collaborative research project

Tuesday 4 June at CAVB

Session 2. Water resource

Field visit and public meeting

Wednesday 5 June at CAVB

Session 3. Water quality

Session 4. Waste water treatment)

Collaborative research project

Thursday 6 June at CAVB

Session 5. Waste water management

Collaborative research project

Friday 7 June at CAVB

Collaborative research project