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Samuel Fournet
Phd student Geoecology
Msc. –Eng. Hydroinformatics
and Water management
Bsc. Territorial planning and
Researcher environment, geography
Ba. History
Contact Project Involvement Research interest Education Professional experience
Link to free available datasets and web ressources for hydrologists: here
Contact
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PIK
Research Domain II, Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities
Pappelallee 20, Room 412
14469 Potsdam GERMANY
P.O. Box: 60 12 03
E-mail: fournet@pik-potsdam.de
Phone: 0(049) 331 288 20761
Project involvement
DEWFORA Fp7 cooperation project Link to website Dewfora
Improved Drought Early Warning and FORecasting to preparedness and adaptation to droughts in Africa
• Case study leadership: Niger river
• WP 3.2 “Impacts of CC on drought vulnerability and risk”
• WP 4.3 “Agricultural drought forecast at local scale”.
AFROMAISON Fp7 cooperation project Link to website Afromaison
Africa at meso-scale: Adaptive and integrated tools and strategies on natural resources management
• WP6 leadership: Global change, vulnerability and scenario design
• Contribute to WP 3 “Tools for restoration and adaptation”, WP 4 “Payment for ecosystem services”, WP 5 “Tools for resource use planning”, WP 7 ”Toolbox or INRM”.
WETWIN Fp7 cooperation project Link to website Wetwin
Enhancing the role of wetlands in integrated water resources management for twinned river basins in EU, Africa and South America in support of EU Water Initiatives
• Focus on Nabajjuzi (Masaka) and Namatala (Mbale) wetland case studies, Uganda
• WP5 leadership: Vulnerability assessment and scenario design
Research Interest
Eco-hydrology
• Transferability of SWIM to equatorial and tropical climatic regime
• Adjustment of crop-plant-soil interface for African case studies
• Adaptation of SWIM to represent the flow regime of floating wetland catchment
Water resources management and planning
• Develop water allocution module in SWIM to represent irrigation systems
• Conception of multi-criteria decision planning tools for wetland ecosystem management
Hydro climatic extremes
• Climate vulnerability assessment
• Focus on water scarcity and drought hazard
Education
2008-2010 Master of Science
Euroaquae
Hydroinformatics and Water Management
E-Mundus joint Engineering degree
BTU Cottbus, Germany Semester ¾
Newcastle University, England Semester 2
Polytech’ Sophia, France Semester 1
2007-2008 Master 1 Pro Hydroprotech
Hydro-technological and environmental project management
Master 1 Pro Gath
Management and planning of tourist and hotel facilities
Double Speciality
University of Nice, geography studies, France
2002-2007 Professional Bachelor Territorial Planning – Environment
Bachelor of arts and human sciences in History
Double Degree
University classic, Lisbon, Portugal Year3
University Paris XII, France Year2
University Clermont-Ferrand II, France Year1
Lecture and workshop contribution, Conference attendance
SWIM Workshop 2010, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Speaker:”SWIM modeling inception: inputs and outputs structuring requisites”, 09/11/2010
Intensive Course: Information Handling in Hydro-Engineering, BTU Cottbus (with IAHR-EGW, TTPWasser, TU Berlin)
Guest Lecturer: “Application of eco-hydrological model SWIM in tropical wetland catchment”, 29/09/2010
1st World Water City Forum, Sth Korea, 2009
6th Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore,2009
International competition of web collaborative engineering
2010 HYDROEUROPE in France [best team award]
Catchment/flood modeling, Var river with ISIS/MIKE SHE
2009 HYDROASIA in Sth Korea
Urban stormwater modeling, Incheon with SWMM/MIKE11
Scholarship award
2009-10 Polytech´11 OFAJ practical internship OFAJ/EurocentresBerlin
2008-09 Horizon 06 E- Mundus Action 3 E-Mundus Mobility (for Europeans)
2006-07 EILC/University of Minho Erasmus Mobility
Professional experience
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Research Engineer Phd and Assistance Since Mar.10
• Involved in fp7 projects Wetwin, Dewfora, Afromaison
• Eco-hydrological model expertise (SWIM): Wetland and Irrigation systems
• Climate vulnerability assessment
• Conception of multi-criteria decision planning tools
• Hydro climatic extremes: drought and flood hazard
Tropical Marine Science Institute, Singapore
Research Associate Jun.09 to Aug.09
• Support in downscaling of climate change model (GCM, Matlab)
• Data collection and monitoring for coastal engineering
• Early warning flood system (SOBEK): training in fluvial sensitivity
Egis Eau, France (Montpellier)/Algeria (Batna)
Junior Engineer placement Jun.08 to Aug.08
• Pumping and treatment stations design, project director assistance for execution plan approval
• Water supply pipeline transfer, chief engineer assistance for consultancy in the building sites
BCEOM, France (Montpellier)/Rwanda (Kigali)
Project manager deputy placement Jan.08 to May08
• Involved in Paigelac project: Integrated planning and management of the 17 interior lakes, Rwanda
• Sedimentation analyses, Erosion mitigation
• Limnology, Bathymetry
• GIS coordinator, Data Base monitoring, Logistician
