Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

This year represents an important landmark in the life of the team, who witnessed the first PhD defense since it has been formed.

The thesis of Jean-Yves Courtonne beared on ecological accounting, with the inception and implementation of a new downscaling method allowing us to track material flow through supply chains at various nested geographical scales; the method also provides an assessment of the associated environmental pressures and an analysis of the errors of the process. This thesis has been recognized by the two referees as a major step forward in France in this field. Four articles have come out of this work; they are published or considered for publication in the leading journals in the field.

A second PhD defense took place this year, by Laurent Gilquin who did most of his PhD studies in STEEP before he followed his supervisor (E. Arnaud) to the AIRSEA project-team.