PROTINUS : PROviding new insighT into INteractions between soil fUnctions and Structure

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The aim of PROTINUS is to combine advanced, applied and theoretical research to create a new standard in imaging, analysing, modelling and predicting the interactions between soil structure and soil functions. Soil structure impacts a whole range of services soil renders to ecosystems, including ...

WP1 : Coordination, management and dissemination - (leader : IRD)The project coordinator IRD-LTHE is responsible for this work package. Its aim is to foster communication and information about project activities to the overall stakeholder communities and institutions. The work package will ...

FAO communication toolkit for International Year of Soils 2015  http://www.fao.org/soils-2015/communications-toolkit/en/  The Symphony of the soil (2012) https://vimeo.com/124586525 International Union of Soil Sciences ...

Prado B., Gastelum Strozzi A., Huerta E., Duwig C., Zamora O., Delmas P., Casasola D., Márquez J., 2016. 2,4-D mobility in two clay soils: impact of macrofauna abundance and soil functional groups. Geoderma, 279, 87–96.Peng Z., Duwig C., Delmas P., Gaudet J.P., Gastelum Strozzi A., ...

     The soils and the PROTINUS project were part of the Science’s days at the French Bolivian College in la Paz Bolivia. Soils and their functions were explained to students from 4 to 14 years old, with a poster, and infiltration experiments.  ...

Secondments within our project are starting!! Find here where everybody is travelling: Laurent Oxarango (LTHE, Grenoble-France) : to  Kumamoto University in Japan from 15/05 to 15/06/2015 Per Moldrup (Aalborg University, Aalborg – Denmark) : To  Saitama from Mid Abril to Mid May ...

Anne Julie Tinet (Univ. Lorraine, France) will participate to the Coordinators' Day organised by Horizon 2020 – RISE the 30 April 2015 in Bruxels. The objective of this meeting is to discuss the requirements of the MSC RISE Grant Agreements as well as the best practice for successful project ...

The kick-off meeting of the PROTINUS project was hold in Grenoble, at LTHE. The meeting was opened by Sandrine Anquetin, Vice director of LTHE, and by Celine Duwig, project coordinator. During the first morning, the project objectives were recalled and each project partner prepared a few slides to ...

Protinus organises a workshop at University of Auckland, New Zealand, 18-20 January 2016 on:"Image analysis for soil structure characterisation”Please find the programme herePlease find the workshop proceedings here...

Céline Duwig and Laurent Oxarango (IRD) and Anne-Julie Tinet (Univ. Lorraine) are spending one month in New Zealand working with Plant and Food Research Insitute and University of Auckland. Celine Duwig (PROTINUS coordinator) had a meeting on the 12/01/2016 in Auckland to organise the contribution ...

PROTINUS Lecture series 26-28 January 2016, AucklandTuesday 26/01/2016 2-4pm (Location: 303-561, CompSci department, level 5, room 561)  Celine Duwig (LTHE Grenoble, France and UMSA La Paz, Bolivia): “Soil physics and transport processes"Abstract: Soil physics aims at understanding ...

After the Kumamoto earthquake in April 2016 that damaged part of Kumamoto University and Toshifumi Mukunoki X-Earth Center, Anne-Julie Tinet (UoL, Lorraine, France) could do 1 month secondment where she gave a lecture on Latice Boltzmann modelling for transfert in porous media. Please find some ...

During his secondment in Grenoble in January 2017, Alfonso Gastelum Strozzi will give a 6 hours lecture (23, 24 and 25 of January 2017) on Image analysis techniques. The lecture will develop the following points:1.  Introduction to image analysis of X-ray tomography ...