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Profil personnel
Domaines de compétence
In 1986, I moved to University of Namur and began teaching biology and ecology of plants, while pursuing my research in potamoplankton. Later on I got involved in research on African lakes, with the supervision of a PhD in lake Muhazi, Rwanda, and with a first "discovery" of Lake Kivu in 1990. In 1996, I did a sabbatical at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where I learned everything on HPLC analysis of pigments.
The 2000s began with a research program on Lake Tanganyika and the coordination of the CLIMLAKE project, involving collaboration of the Belgian teams with African teams. At the same time, I went back to Lake Kivu and we started studying this lake. That's where our interest for picoplankton and heterotrophic protists, and the microbial loop, developed, with several projects carried out with my graduate and PhD students.
Ongoing research is on ecology of great tropical lakes, as influenced by climate change and by species introductions, on cyanobacteria blooms in reservoirs, on microbial diversity and function, and on invasive clams in rivers, in collaboration with teams from Belgium and abroad.
My expertise in algal ecology and biological assessment of water quality is still useful for the determination of the ecological status of water bodies.
Since I was a young boy, I have been fishing, mainly in rivers, using different techniques, from the worm to the fly, but I have specialised in fly-fishing since the 1970s: I tie flies and cast nymphs and dry flies in running waters.
- Etude des relations trophiques en milieu fluvial et lacustre (interaction phytoplancton-zooplancton ; boucle microbienne)
2. Qualité des eaux courantes
- Etat écologique des eaux de surface
- Utilisation des algues benthiques (en particulier diatomées) comme indicateurs de pollution des eaux courantes
- Contribution à la modélisation intégrée des bassins versants
Charges externes
- President of the Monitoring working group at the International Meuse Commission
- Member of the evaluation committee of SPGE (Société Publique de Gestion de l'Eau)
- Member of the editorial board of Freshwater Biology
- Reviewer for 37 scientific journals
Prix/Distinctions
- Innovation Prize 2000, awarded by Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux for contributing to studies on the impact of nuclear power plants on the aquatic ecosystem
Diplômes
Domaines de compétence
In 1986, I moved to University of Namur and began teaching biology and ecology of plants, while pursuing my research in potamoplankton. Later on I got involved in research on African lakes, with the supervision of a PhD in lake Muhazi, Rwanda, and with a first "discovery" of Lake Kivu in 1990. In 1996, I did a sabbatical at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where I learned everything on HPLC analysis of pigments.
The 2000s began with a research program on Lake Tanganyika and the coordination of the CLIMLAKE project, involving collaboration of the Belgian teams with African teams. At the same time, I went back to Lake Kivu and we started studying this lake. That's where our interest for picoplankton and heterotrophic protists, and the microbial loop, developed, with several projects carried out with my graduate and PhD students.
Ongoing research is on ecology of great tropical lakes, as influenced by climate change and by species introductions, on cyanobacteria blooms in reservoirs, on microbial diversity and function, and on invasive clams in rivers, in collaboration with teams from Belgium and abroad.
My expertise in algal ecology and biological assessment of water quality is still useful for the determination of the ecological status of water bodies.
Since I was a young boy, I have been fishing, mainly in rivers, using different techniques, from the worm to the fly, but I have specialised in fly-fishing since the 1970s: I tie flies and cast nymphs and dry flies in running waters.
- Etude des relations trophiques en milieu fluvial et lacustre (interaction phytoplancton-zooplancton ; boucle microbienne)
2. Qualité des eaux courantes
- Etat écologique des eaux de surface
- Utilisation des algues benthiques (en particulier diatomées) comme indicateurs de pollution des eaux courantes
- Contribution à la modélisation intégrée des bassins versants
Charges externes
- President of the Monitoring working group at the International Meuse Commission
- Member of the evaluation committee of SPGE (Société Publique de Gestion de l'Eau)
- Member of the editorial board of Freshwater Biology
- Reviewer for 37 scientific journals
Prix/Distinctions
- Innovation Prize 2000, awarded by Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux for contributing to studies on the impact of nuclear power plants on the aquatic ecosystem
Diplômes
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Projets
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Transformations de la biogéochimie aquatique dans le Fleuve Congo (TRANS-CONGO)
DESCY, J. & Borges, A.
1/07/13 → 30/06/15
Projet: Recherche
Résultat de recherche
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Long-term impacts of nutrient control, climate change, and invasive clams on phytoplankton and cyanobacteria biomass in a large temperate river
Minaudo, C., Abonyi, A., Leitão, M., Lançon, A. M., Floury, M., Descy, J. P. & Moatar, F., 20 févr. 2021, Dans: Science of the Total Environment. 756, 144074.Résultats de recherche: Contribution à un journal/une revue › Article › Revue par des pairs
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The possible occurrence of iron-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation in an Archean Ocean analogue
Roland, F. A. E., Borges, A. V., Darchambeau, F., Llirós, M., Descy, J. P. & Morana, C., janv. 2021, Dans: Scientific Reports. 11, 1, 1597.Résultats de recherche: Contribution à un journal/une revue › Article › Revue par des pairs
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Pilot application of drone observations and pigment marker detection by HPLC in studies of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in Bulgarian inland waters
Stoyneva-Gärtner, M. P., Uzunov, B. A., Descy, J. P., Gärtner, G., Draganova, P. H., Borisova, C. I., Pavlova, V. & Mitreva, M., 1 janv. 2020, Dans: Marine and Freshwater Research. 71, 5, p. 606-616 11 p.Résultats de recherche: Contribution à un journal/une revue › Article › Revue par des pairs
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Long-term change of phytoplankton in Lake Kivu: The rise of the greens
Rugema, E., Darchambeau, F., Sarmento, H., Stoyneva-Gärtner, M., Leitao, M., Thiery, W., Latli, A. & Descy, J. P., 1 nov. 2019, Dans: Freshwater Biology. 64, 11, p. 1940-1955 16 p.Résultats de recherche: Contribution à un journal/une revue › Article › Revue par des pairs
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Variations in dissolved greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) in the Congo River network overwhelmingly driven by fluvial-wetland connectivity
Borges, A. V., Darchambeau, F., Lambert, T., Morana, C., Allen, G. H., Tambwe, E., Toengaho Sembaito, A., Mambo, T., Wabakhangazi, J. N., Descy, J. P., Teodoru, C. R. & Bouillon, S., 7 oct. 2019, Dans: Biogeosciences. 16, 19, p. 3801-3834 34 p.Résultats de recherche: Contribution à un journal/une revue › Article › Revue par des pairs
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Activités
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ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2009 (A Cruise Through Nice Waters) - American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
Jean-Pierre Descy (Participant)
janv. 2009Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
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SIL 2007
Jean-Pierre Descy (Orateur)
août 2007Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
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SIL 2007
Jean-Pierre Descy (Participant)
août 2007Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
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SIL 2007
Jean-Pierre Descy (Participant)
août 2007Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
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SEFS5
Jean-Pierre Descy (Participant)
juil. 2007Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
Presse/médias
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Metal-eating microbes in African lake could solve mystery of the planet’s iron deposits
9/09/15
1 élément de Couverture média
Presse/Médias: Commentaire d'expert