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Speaker: Michel Meybeck
meybeck<at>ccr.jussieu.fr
SISYPHE, Laboratoire de Geologie Appliquée, Université de Paris 6, Case 123, Tour 26, 5e Etage, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France,
Title of the talk:
Vulnerability of water quality exemplified on the River Seine (pdf: 9MB)
Biosketch
Prof. Dr. Michel Meybeck is research director at the French national center for scientific research (CNRS). He has worked mainly
on surface water geochemistry (estuaries, lakes). His global scale river basin comparisons have benefited from 25 years of
collaboration and exchange with scientists in this field from Europe, Russia, North America and French overseas specialists
(ORSTOM now IRD), and from his position as the scientific advisor (1978-1998) of the GEMS-Water programme of UNEP / WHO / UNESCO / WMO,
which collects and compares water quality data at the global scale. He has been the lead editor of the first global synthesis on water
quality issues and a co-editor of the first assessment of water quality issues in the Former Soviet Union. He is also the co-editor of
the recent French limnology treaty.
He is author (single author or second author) of many seed papers in the field of global river inputs (major ions, silica, suspended
solids, organic carbon, nutrients) to the oceans and he is working now on geochemical control of surface waters and estuaries. Since
1989 he has focused his work on the general alteration of continental aquatic systems by activities of humans at the global scale and
at the local scale using the Seine River as a key example while still continuing to work on global riverine inputs to oceans
particularly for carbon. He is now the PI of the EUROCAT European programme for the work package on comparative study of river
catchments.
He was a member of the BAHC (Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle) Scientific Steering Committee and was nominated in
1997 by ICSU on the IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme) Scientific Committee. Over this period he has established
a close relationship with the Water System Analysis Group of the University of New Hampshire and together they are developing
global-scale hydrological typologies and data bases on world basins. Parallel Michel Meybeck is developing a unique set of data
bases on present-day river chemistry (GLORI) and on pristine rivers (PRISRI in progress).
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