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My research interest is in ecology of microorganisms in freshwaters. I graduated in Botany at University of Liège, Belgium, I began my research career with a PhD on the ecology of benthic diatoms in lowland rivers and their use for monitoring water quality. In the beginning of the 1980s, I became involved in research on potamoplankton, in the framework of impact assessment of nuclear plants on the R. Meuse. This is when I began collaborating with a team of modellers and discovered these techniques.
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
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
- Member of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, Belgium
- 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
- 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
- Crépin Prize, 1976, awarded by the Royal Botanical Society, Belgium (Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique)
- Innovation Prize 2000, awarded by Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux for contributing to studies on the impact of nuclear power plants on the aquatic ecosystem
- 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
Docteur en Sciences Biologiques
Domaines de compétence
My research interest is in ecology of microorganisms in freshwaters. I graduated in Botany at University of Liège, Belgium, I began my research career with a PhD on the ecology of benthic diatoms in lowland rivers and their use for monitoring water quality. In the beginning of the 1980s, I became involved in research on potamoplankton, in the framework of impact assessment of nuclear plants on the R. Meuse. This is when I began collaborating with a team of modellers and discovered these techniques.
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
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
- Member of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, Belgium
- 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
- 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
- Crépin Prize, 1976, awarded by the Royal Botanical Society, Belgium (Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique)
- Innovation Prize 2000, awarded by Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux for contributing to studies on the impact of nuclear power plants on the aquatic ecosystem
- 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
Docteur en Sciences Biologiques
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Projets
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
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
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
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
Accès ouvert
Anaerobic methane oxidation and aerobic methane production in an east African great lake (Lake Kivu)
Roland, F. A. E., Morana, C., Darchambeau, F., Crowe, S. A., Thamdrup, B., Descy, J. P. & Borges, A. V., 1 déc. 2018, Dans : Journal of Great Lakes Research. 44, 6, p. 1183-1193 11 p.Résultats de recherche: Contribution à un journal/une revue › Article
Effects of agricultural land use on fluvial carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide concentrations in a large European river, the Meuse (Belgium)
Borges, A. V., Darchambeau, F., Lambert, T., Bouillon, S., Morana, C., Brouyère, S., Hakoun, V., Jurado, A., Tseng, H. C., Descy, J. P. & Roland, F. A. E., 1 janv. 2018, Dans : Science of the Total Environment. 610-611, p. 342-355 14 p.Résultats de recherche: Contribution à un journal/une revue › Article
Activités
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2009 (A Cruise Through Nice Waters) - American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
Jean-Pierre Descy (Participant)
janv. 2009
Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
SIL 2007
Jean-Pierre Descy (Participant)
août 2007
Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
SIL 2007
Jean-Pierre Descy (Participant)
août 2007
Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
SIL 2007
Jean-Pierre Descy (Orateur)
août 2007
Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
SEFS5
Jean-Pierre Descy (Participant)
juil. 2007
Activité: Types de Participation ou d'organisation d'un événement › Participation à une conférence, un congrès
Presse/médias
Metal-eating microbes in African lake could solve mystery of the planet’s iron deposits
9/09/15
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