Igor DA SILVA ROCHA PAZ will present his PhD thesis on Quantification of precipitation heterogeneity and x-band radar measurements to improve flood forecasts to obtain the title of Doctor in “Environmental Sciences and techniques”. The thesis defence committee includes Daniel SCHERTZER as thesis supervisor, Cedo MAKSIMOVIC and Remko UIJLENHOET as reviewers, Bruno TISSERAND, Diana MANGALAGIU, Ioulia TCHIGUIRINSKAIA,...
Geophysics and Urban Resilience was a hot topic at the American Geoscience Union Fall Meeting 2017. “Understanding Complexity in Urban Resilience” was broadcasted by AGU TV from the 11 to the 15 December 2017. The video presents the activities of the HM&Co team and its efforts to develop new methods and tools that can help cities...
Yangzi Qiu, Tim Möller, Lucas Charbonnier and Julien Cravero joined the HM&Co team few weeks ago. With different backgrounds – environmental engineering, architecture, mathematics and physics – each one of them will bring with their research work new insights on how to improve storm water management in the city. Yangzi studies low impact development and...
A video illustrating HM&Co activities will be presented from the 6 to the 10 November 2017 at the 23rd Conference of the Parties in Bönn. HM&Co was invited to contribute to this event by the French Water Partnership (PFE), the French Public-Private Platform for discussion and reflexion on water management. HM&Co promo video from HM&Co lab...
Cedo Maksimovic, professor at Imperial College of London and a world expert in the field of urban hydrology, was awarded today Doctor Honoris Causa of École des Ponts ParisTech. The ceremony was opened by Sophie Mougard, Director of École des Ponts, and chaired by Françoise Preteux, Director of the Research at École des Ponts. A lecture...
The beginning of the project ANR EVNATURB was inaugurated today at L’École des Ponts ParisTech. Coordinated by Pierre-Antoine Versini (HM&Co) and with four years of planned research activities, the project aims to develop methods and tools to assess eco-systemic performances of urban areas revegetation. A systemic, multi-services, multi-scale approach will be undertaken so that rainfall...
Next Tuesday at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (nearby Amphitheatre Cauchy) you will have the chance to make a virtual visit of our X-band weather radar and win virtual reality glasses. Other serious games on hydrological modelling and rainfall observation will be led by Abdellah Ichiba and Auguste Gires (HM&Co). These entertaining and educational activities...
On 18 October 2017 (9h-18h) a meeting will be held at École des Ponts ParisTech (Navier Amphitheater) to refine the structure and the partnership of the project AGORA XXI in response to the I-SITE FUTURE call for projects. Linking the initiatives 100 Resilient Cities Paris and I-Site Future, AGORA XXI will scientifically back Paris in...
The benefits of vegetated roofs is a debated issue that requires further research on their performance. Green infrastructures, such as the Blue Green Wave at École des Ponts ParisTech, can be used to better manage storm water as it was discussed by Pierre-Antoine Versini (HM&Co) at the ACODAL (Colombian Professional Association of Environmental Engineering) congress...
Our laboratory was involved in the fund raising campaign of Fondation des Ponts. In a video aimed to encourage donators to support research, Igor Paz and Rosa Vicari (HM&Co) presented their work on weather observations and forecasts through X-band radar and media mapping and big data analysis during flood events. Both research projects are supported...