Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Ascione Kenov I, Campuzano F, Franz G, Fernandes R, Viegas C, Sobrinho J, de Pablo H, Amaral A, Pinto L, Mateus M, Neves R (2014). Advances in Modeling of Water Quality in Estuaries, in: Finkl, C.W., Makowski, C. (Eds.), Remote Sensing and Modeling. Springer International Publishing, pp. 237-276.

• Billen G, Lasseletta L, Garnier J (2014). A biogeochemical view of the global agro-food system: Nitrogen flows associated with protein production, consumption and trade. Global Food Security, 3: 209-219.

• Billen G, Lassaletta L, Garnier J (2015) A vast range of opportunities for feeding the world in 2050: trade-off between diet, N contamination and international trade. Envir. Res. Letters 10: 025001. Doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/025001.

• Billen G, Garnier J, Silvestre M (2015). A simplified algorithm for calculating benthic nutrient fluxes in river systems. International Journal of Limnology, 51: 37-47.

• Brito D., Campuzano F.J., Sobrinho J., Fernandes R., Neves R. (2015). Integrating operational watershed and coastal models for the Iberian Coast: Watershed model implementation – A first approach. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 167, Part A: 138-146.

• Campuzano FJ, Brito D, Juliano M, Fernandes R, de Pablo H, Neves R. (2016). Coupling watersheds, estuaries and regional ocean through numerical modelling for Western Iberia: a novel methodology. Ocean Dynamics 66(12): 1745-1756. Doi: 10.1007/s10236-016-1005-4.

• Campuzano Francisco J., Manuela Juliano, João Sobrinho, Hilda de Pablo, David Brito, Rodrigo Fernandes and Ramiro Neves (2018). Coupling Watersheds, Estuaries and Regional Oceanography through Numerical Modelling in the Western Iberia: Thermohaline Flux Variability at the Ocean-Estuary Interface, Estuary, Prof. William Froneman (Ed.), InTech, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.72162. Available from: https://www.intechopen.com/books/estuary/coupling-watersheds-estuaries-and-regional-oceanography-through-numerical-modelling-in-the-western-i

• Desmit X, Ruddick K, Lacroix G (2015). Salinity predicts the distribution of chlorophyll a spring peak in the southern North Sea continental waters. Journal of Sea Research 103: 59-74. Doi: 10.1016/j.seares.2015.02.007.

• Desmit X., Thieu V., Billen G., Campuzano F., Dulière V., Garnier J., Lassaletta L., Ménesguen A., Neves R., Pinto L., Silvestre M., Sobrinho J., Lacroix G. (2018). Reducing marine eutrophication may require a paradigmatic change. Science of the Total Environment 635:1444-1466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.181.

• Dulière V., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Luyten P., Lacroix G. Origin of nitrogen in the English Channel and Southern Bight of the North Sea ecosystems. Hydrobiologia (In press).

• Ghyoot, C., Gypens, N., Flynn, K.J., Lancelot, C. (2015). Modelling alkaline phosphatase activity in microalgae under orthophosphate limitation: the case of Phaeocystis globosa. Journal of Plankton Research. DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbv062

• Gypens N., A.V. Borges. (2014). Increase in dimethylsulfide (DMS) emissions due to eutrophication of coastal waters offsets their reduction due to ocean acidification, Frontiers in Marine Science – Marine Ecosystem Ecology. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2014.00004

• Lancelot C, Passy P, Gypens N (2014). Model assessment of present-day Phaeocystis colony blooms in the Southern Bight of the North Sea (SBNS) by comparison with a reconstructed pristine situation. Harmful Algae 37: 172-182 & corrigendum (Fig. 7).

• Lassaletta L, Billen G, Grizzetti B, Anglade J, Garnier J (2014). 50 year trends in nitrogen use efficiency of world cropping systems: the relationship between yield and nitrogen input to cropland. Environ. Res. Lett. 9, 105011 (9pp).

• Ménesguen A., Desmit X., Dulière V., Lacroix G., Thouvenin B., Thieu V., Dussauze M. (2018). How to avoid eutrophication in coastal seas? A new approach to derive river-specific combined nitrate and phosphate maximum concentrations. Science of the Total Environment 628-629: 400-414. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.025.

Conferences

1. Session chair

• "Coastal ecosystem under anthropogenic pressure: impact on ecosystem structure and services". European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2013, Vienna (Austria), 07-12 April 2013.
  Convener: N. Gypens, Co-Conveners: M. Grégoire, J. Bruggeman , S. Nelson.

• "Impacts of anthropogenic pressures on coastal ecosystem functioning and services". European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2014, Vienna (Austria), 27 April – 02 May 2014.
  Convener: N. Gypens, Co-Conveners: M. Grégoire, A. Newton, A. Borja, C. Solidoro.

• ”Biogeochemistry of coastal seas and continental shelves and impacts of anthropogenic pressures on coastal ecosystem functioning and services”. European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2015, Vienna (Austria), 12-17 April 2015.
  Convener: H. Thomas, Co-Conveners: A. V. Borges, N. Gypens, M. Grégoire.

2. Oral presentations

• Billen G, Garnier J, Silvestre M. A generic algorithm for modelling benthic nutrient fluxes in river systems. Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), Toulouse (France), 15-19 July 2013.

• Desmit X, Lacroix G. Rise and fall of classical ecological modelling. Innovative Approaches in Marine Environment Modelling (AIMEN), Brest (France), 19-23 August 2013.

• Ménesguen A. Noxious effects of the increasing eutrophication of coastal marine ecosystems: how far should we reduce the terrestrial nutrient loading? 7ème Symposium sur la Biodiversité marine. Fondation total, Porquerolles (France), October 2013.

• Ménesguen A. Influence en mer des apports nutritifs des fleuves : domaines d'influence et effets eutrophisants. 15 ans d’Ecoflux, Brest (France), 11 October 2013.

• Ménesguen A., Dussauze M., Dumas F., Lecornu F. Using ecological modelling to assess the role of each French watershed in some eutrophication and HAB occurrences (Pseudo-Nitzschia, Karenia, Phaeocystis) in the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science (ECSA 53), Shanghai (China), 13-17 October 2013.

• Dulière V, Gypens N, Lancelot C, Luyten P, Desmit X, Lacroix G. Linking human activities to eutrophication along the river ocean continuum with an ecological model. VLIZ Young Scientist’s Day, Brugge (Belgium), 07 March 2014. [2nd award]

• Lacroix G. Ecosystem Models as Support to Eutrophication Management in the North Atlantic Ocean (EMoSEM): first year report. SEAS-ERA Final Conference, Palma de Majorca (Spain), 8-9 April 2014.

• Campuzano F., Brito D., Juliano M., Fernandes R., Neves R. Effect of the river discharge implementation in an operational model for the West Iberia coastal area. European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2014, Vienna (Austria), 27 April – 02 May 2014.

• Dulière V, Gypens N, Lancelot C, Thieu V, Luyten V, Lacroix G. Tracing back nutrients from Southern North Sea eutrophicated areas up to the watersheds. European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2014, Vienna (Austria), 27 April – 02 May 2014.

• Dulière V, Gypens N, Desmit X, Lacroix G. Tracking nutrients in the Southern North Sea. Joint Numerical Sea Modelling Group Conference (JONSMOD 2014), Brussels (Belgium), 12-14 May 2014.

• Lancelot C. Cultural eutrophication in the Greater North Sea: cause, symptoms, mitigation. Eutrophication of coastal waters – ISECA final conference, Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), 30 June – 01 July 2014. [Invited presentation]

• Dulière V, Thieu V, Gypens N, Lancelot C, Luyten P, Desmit X, Lacroix G. Linking human activities to eutrophication in the Southern North Sea. Advances in Marine Ecosystem Research (AMEMR IV), Plymouth (UK), 30 June – 04 July 2014.

• Dulière V., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Thieu V., Luyten P.,Lacroix G., 2015. Tracing back nutrients from southern North Sea eutrophicated areas up to the watersheds. European Geophysical Union (EGU) (Vienna, Austria, 12-17/04/2015).

• Thieu V, Silvestre M, Billen G, Garnier J, Passy P, Lassaletta L. Nutrient transfer in aquatic continuum and delivery to coastal zone: rising up the challenge of a generic application of the Riverstrahler ecological model to the watershed domain of the European North Atlantic Ocean. I.S. Rivers International Conference, Lyon (France), 22-26 June 2015.

• Lacroix G, Dulière V, Desmit X, Gypens N, Lancelot C, Billen G, Garnier J, Thieu V, Silvestre M, Passy P, Lassaletta L, Ménesguen A, Thouvenin B, Dussauze M, Mateus M, Neves R, Sobrinho J, Ascione Kenov I, Campuzano F., Pinto L., Garcia C. Ecosystem Models as Support to Eutrophication Management in the North Atlantic Ocean (EMoSEM). World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling (RMA 2015), Bordeaux (France), 29 June – 01 July 2015.

• Campuzano FJ, Brito D, Juliano M, Sobrinho J, Pinto L, Fernandes R, Neves R. Coupling of watersheds, estuaries and regional seas through numerical modelling for Western Iberia Campuzano, Francisco (Maretec – Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) GODAE OceanView COSS-TT (COSS-ICW4) + Pilot ARCOM workshop, Lisbon (Portugal) 31 August – 04 September 2015.

• Campuzano F, Brito D, Juliano M, Sobrinho J, Fernandes R, Pinto L, Neves R. Integração espacial e temporal por métodos numéricos dos processos associados às bacias hidrográficas, estuários e oceano regional para a costa ocidental da Península Ibérica. VIII Congresso sobre Planeamento e Gestão das Zonas Costeiras dos Países de Expressão Portuguesa. 14-16 October 2015, Aveiro, Portugal. Artigo 114. (In Portuguese).

• Desmit X., Billen G., Thieu V., Garnier J., Dulière V., Ménesguen A., Pinto L., Gypens N., Campuzano, F., Ramiro N., Lancelot C. & Lacroix G. Reducing marine eutrophication needs a paradigmatic change. IMBER IMBIZO IV (Trieste, Italy, 26-30 October 2015).

• Campuzano FJ, Brito D, Juliano M, Sobrinho J, Pinto L, Fernandes R, Neves R. CMEMS and Nutrient Budgets assessment/ Primary Production in Coastal Zones. Copernicus Marine Service Regional User and Training Workshop dedicated to the IBI Area (Atlantic European South West Shelf Ocean) Lisbon (10-11 December 2015) IST Lisbon

• Desmit X., Thieu V., Dulière V., Campuzano F., Garnier J., Gypens N., Pinto L., Lancelot C., Ramiro N., Ménesguen A., Billen G. & Lacroix G. River-Ocean Models as Support to eutrophication management. EC Workshop on ReDEveloping Models of the European Marine Environment. (20-21 January 2016, Brussels, Belgium).

• Campuzano FJ, Brito D, Juliano M, Fernandes R, de Pablo H, Neves R. Coupling watersheds, estuaries and regional ocean through numerical modelling for Western Iberia. 7th European Coastal Lagoons Symposium, Murcia (Spain) 1-4 March 2016

• Dulière V., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Luyten P., Lacroix G. Tracing marine nitrogen back to its continental source. ECSA56, Coastal systems in transition. From a ‘natural’ to an ‘anthropogenically-modified’ state (Bremen, Germany, 4-7 September 2016).

• Desmit X., Thieu V., Dulière V., Campuzano F., Silvestre M., Garnier J., Sobrinho J., Pinto L., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Neves R., Ménesguen A., Thouvenin B., Dussauze M., Passy P., Lassaetta L., Billen G., Troost T., Van der Molen J., Los H., Lenhart H., Lacroix G. Modelling eutrophication along the land-ocean continuum. ECSA56, Coastal systems in transition. From a ‘natural’ to an ‘anthropogenically-modified’ state (Bremen, Germany, 4-7 September 2016).

• Campuzano FJ, Ascione Kenov I, Brito D, Juliano M, De Pablo H, Sobrinho J, Fernandes R, Neves R. Coupling of watersheds, estuaries and regional seas through numerical modelling for Western Iberia: estuarine fluxes influence in the near open ocean. ECSA 56 Conference, Bremen (Germany), 4-7 September 2016.

• Desmit X., Thieu V., Dulière V., Campuzano F., Silvestre M., Garnier J., Sobrinho J., Pinto L., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Neves R., Ménesguen A., Thouvenin B., Dussauze M., Passy P., Lassaetta L., Billen G., Troost T., Van der Molen J., Los H., Lenhart H., Lacroix G. Past, present and future eutrophication in the North East Atlantic coastal waters. Workshop on Scheldt Eutrophication at FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment (Brussels, Belgium, 20 October 2016).

• Desmit X., Thieu V., Dulière V., Campuzano F., Silvestre M., Garnier J., Sobrinho J., Pinto L., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Neves R., Ménesguen A., Billen G., Lacroix G. Past, present and future eutrophication levels in the North East Atlantic. North Sea Open Science Conference (NSOSC2016) (Ostend, 7-10 November 2016).

• Dulière V., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Luyten P., Lacroix G. What is the origin of nitrogen in the North Sea. North Sea Open Science Conference (NSOSC2016) (Ostend, 7-10 November 2016).

3. Posters

• Lacroix G, Billen G, Desmit X, Garnier J, Gypens N, Lancelot C, Lenhart H, Los H, Mateus M, Ménesguen A, Neves R, Troost T, Van der Molen J. Ecosystem Models as Support to Eutrophication Management in the North Atlantic Ocean (EMoSEM). European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2013, Vienna (Austria), 07-12 April 2013.

• Lacroix G, Billen G, Desmit X, Dulière V, Garnier J, Gypens N, Lancelot C, Lenhart H, Los H, Mateus M, Ménesguen A, Neves R, Troost T, Van der Molen J. Ecosystem Models as Support to Eutrophication Management in the North Atlantic Ocean (EMoSEM). Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science (ECSA 53), Shanghai (China), 13-17 October 2013.

• Lacroix G, Desmit X, Dulière V, Gypens N, Lancelot C, Billen G, Garnier J, Thieu V, Silvestre M, Passy P, Lassaletta L, Guittard G, Théry S, Ménesguen A, Thouvenin B, Dussauze M, Mateus M, Neves R, Sobrinho J, Ascione Kenov I, Garcia C, Lenhart H, Los H, Troost T, Van der Molen J. Ecosystem Models as Support to Eutrophication Management in the North Atlantic Ocean (EMoSEM). VLIZ Young Scientist’s Day, Brugge (Belgium), 07 March 2014.

• Lancelot C, Passy P, Gypens N. How significant are Phaeocystis colony blooms in the present-day Southern North Sea compared to a reconstructed pristine situation: a model study. European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2014, Vienna (Austria), 27 April – 02 May 2014.

• Gypens N, Passy P, Thieu V, Lancelot C. Present-day and projected magnitude of Phaeocystis colony blooms in Southern North Sea. Advances in Marine Ecosystem Research (AMEMR IV), Plymouth (UK), 30 June – 04 July 2014.

• Ménesguen A., Dussauze M. Designing optimal scenarios of nutrient loading reduction in a WFD/MSFD perspective by using passive and active tracers in a biogeochemical-3D model of the English Channel/Bay of Biscay area. Advances in Marine Ecosystem Research (AMEMR IV), Plymouth (UK), 30 June – 04 July 2014.

• Desmit X., Lacroix G., Dulière V., Thieu V., Silvestre M., Billen G., Garnier J., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Campuzano F., Sobrinho J., Ménesguen A., Thouvenin B., Dussauze M., Neves R., Lenhart H., Los H., Troost T., Vander Molen J., 2015. Mitigating eutrophication may require a paradigmatic change (EMoSEM). IMBER IMBIZO IV (Trieste, Italy, 26-30 October 2015).

• Desmit X., Thieu v., Dulière V., Campuzano f., Silvestre M., Garnier J., Sobrinho J., Pinto L., Gypens N., Lancelot C., Neves R., Ménesguen A., Billen G., Lacroix G. Modelling eutrophication along the land-ocean continuum of the NEA. Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research (AMEMR) Conference (Plymouth, 3-6 July 2017).

Science policy support

• International Scheldt Commission
  Communication: Lacroix G, Billen G, Desmit X, Garnier J, Gypens N, Lancelot C, Lenhart H, Los H, Mateus M, Ménesguen A, Neves R, Thieu V, Troost T, Van der Molen J. Ecosystem Models as Support to Eutrophication Management in the North Atlantic Ocean (EMoSEM). International Scheldt Commission, PA4b Coastal and transitional waters, Antwerpen (Belgium), 25 March 2013.
  Communication: Desmit X. and Lacroix G. Conclusions and recommendations from the Workshop on Scheldt Eutrophication. International Scheldt Commission Plenary Meeting (Middelburg, The Netherlands, 2 December 2016).

• OSPAR ICG-MSFD
  Participation of Geneviève Lacroix to the “Monitoring Workshop”, Brussels (Belgium), 06 June 2013.

• OSPAR ICG-EUT
  1. Communication in the session “Dialogue ICG EUT – ICG EMO on modelling needs”: Lacroix G, Lancelot C. Combining river catchment model and marine ecosystem models: lessons learned from EMoSEM. OSPAR ICG-EUT Workshop, Paris (France), 3-5 February 2014.
  2. Participation of Christiane Lancelot & Geneviève Lacroix to the session “JOINTLY Testing Eutrophication Common Indicators and new elements of updated Common Procedure”. “Phaeocystis” test case. OSPAR ICG-EUT Workshop, Paris (France), 3-5 February 2014.

• OSPAR ICG-EMO
  Follow up of the ICG-EMO activities by Geneviève Lacroix and Alain Ménesguen.
  Regular exchanges with Herman Lenhart (chair), Johan Van der Molen, Tineke Troost et al. to identify synergies between EMoSEM and ICG-EMO.

• Participation of Wendy Bonne to the EMoSEM final project meeting and discussion about the WFD intercalibration study.

• MONIT.BE
  Participation of Geneviève Lacroix to the Steering group MONIT.Be (topic eutrophication).

• "Rapport fédéral en matière d'environnement 2004‐2008"
  Participation of Geneviève Lacroix to the report update (topic eutrophication).

• A Policy brief at the intention of policy makers will be prepared and send to local authorities after the project.

Communication products

• EMoSEM leaflet. Project presentation widely distributed.

• Lancelot C (2014). Fiche “eutrophication” (Institut Océanographique Monaco).