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• 29/05/2014 : Launch of the French-Vietnamese PLUME.

The French-Vietnamese oceanographic campaign PLUME (Particle transport along river pLUmes and their iMpact on coastal ecosystems off ViEtnam), will be held in Vietnam from May 28 to July 11, 2024. The PLUME cruise is taking place in an extremely solid French-Vietnamese partnership and programmatic context. Managed by the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), the campaign is conducted aboard the research vessel Antea of the French Oceanographic Fleet (FOF), operated by IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) with the support of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

PLUME aims to better understand and quantify the transport of water, particles, natural and anthropogenic materials, their mixing, evolution, distribution and fate along the river-estuary-ocean continuum, as well as their impact on the coastal area, mainly around Vietnam's three largest river systems, namely the Red River, the Mekong River, and the Saigon-Dong Nai river system, during the wet (rainy) season.

This oceanographic campaign represents the highlight of the celebrations in Vietnam of the 80th anniversary of IRD.

Follow the PLUME campaign on https://plumevietnam.com.

• 07/05/2024 : Quentin DESMET successfully defended his PhD and is now Doctor of University de Toulouse. His thesis was about «Exploring the keys to advance air–sea coupled regional modeling for deeper insights into Southeast Asian climate ». See more information here.
• 18/12/2023 : Nguyen Thanh Hue successfully defended her PhD and is now Doctor of University de Toulouse. Her thesis was about « Air-sea interactions in Southeast Asia: Evaluating the impact of ENSO/ENSO Modoki on rainfall variability and characterizing historical and future surface air-sea heat exchanges ». See more information here.
• 5-8 December 2023 : The first regional workshop on "Southeast Asia environmental systems" organised at the USTH-VAST by LOTUS and the SOOT-SEA IRN, in partnership with their partners from the CARE IRN, the JEAI WATER-4C and the IRN PASSPORT-2C, was held in Hanoi from 5 to 8 December, with the support of the IRD and the USTH.

The aim of the workshop was to bring together scientists from different disciplines, methodologies and fields working on common issues (climate, pollution, continent-ocean continuum, marine and coastal ecosystems, etc.), in order to encourage the emergence and construction of collaborative research and training projects on a regional scale.

This interdisciplinary workshop brought together 80 participants from laboratories and institutes in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and France, who presented their work on subjects relating to the evolution of regional systems and coastal, deltaic and marine environments in the face of various natural and anthropogenic factors of variability: estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics, sea-level rise, delta subsidence, sediment transport, fate of contaminants, regional and urban climate, vulnerability and adaptation of populations.

• 12/05/2023 : Le Hong Hanh successfully defended her PhD and is now Doctor of University de Toulouse. Her thesis was about «Teleconnection and dynamical influences on the intraseasonal rainfall variability over Vietnam ». See more information here.
• 02/2023: LOTUS is officially renewed for the second phase (2023–2027).
• 28-29/06/2022: End of 1st phase meeting of LOTUS , Ninh Binh
• 16-21/06/2022 : LOTUS2 campaign : 2nd leg of VanUc River estuary and plume campaigns, gathering USTH, IMER, LEGOS, LOG and MIO
• 1-6/06/2022 : LOTUS1 campaign : 1st leg of VanUc River estuary and plume campaigns, gathering USTH, IMER, LEGOS, LOG and MIO

• 11/05/2022 : Nguyen Duy Tung successfully defended his PhD and is now Doctor of University de Toulouse. His thesis was about « Interannual and intraseasonal variability of the South Vietnam upwelling: the role of high-frequency atmospheric forcing, offshore and coastal ocean dynamics, and intrinsic oceanic variability ». See more information here.

• 24/02/2022 : To Duy Thai successfully defended his PhD and is now Doctor of University de Toulouse. His thesis was about « Study of the Red River plume in the Gulf of Tonkin from cluster analysis and ensemble simulations ». See more information here.
• 23-24/11/2021 : LOTUS annual meeting 2021, OMP, Toulouse / USTH, Hanoi / Visio. 30 participants.
• 01/12/2021 : Adrien Garinet begins his PhD about "Mixing of water masses in South East Asia seas". He will be supervised by researchers from LEGOS.
• 01/10/2021 : Juliette Pénicaud obtained a PhD grant from University of Toulouse, and begins her PhD about "Sediment transport in the Red River - Gulf of Tonkin continuum". She will be supervised by researchers from LEGOS and USTH.
• March 2021 : Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology MIO is now an official member of LOTUS. Welcome to Xavier Mari, Emilie Strady, Marc Tedetti, Catherine Guigue and their colleagues.
• October 11-15, 2021: International conference ”Climate change in the Asia-Pacific region: from environmental aspects to socio-economic impacts”, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam.

The conference, initially planned in Spring 2020, will be organized by IRD, USTH and Rencontres du Vietnam, with the support of several institutions (AFD, French Embassy in Vietnam ...). See more information on the official website.
##Submit an abstract here (Deadline May 1st, 2021) and register here

• 15/02/2021 : LOTUS annual meeting 2020 , OMP, Toulouse / USTH, Hanoi / Visio. 29 participants.

• 09/12/2020 : Trinh Bich Ngoc successfully defended her PhD and is now Doctor of University de Toulouse. Her thesis was about «Water, heat and salt cycles in the South China Sea, from seasonal variation to interannual variability: a high-resolution closed balance modelling approach» See more information here.
• 01/12/2020: Quentin Desmet begins his PhD about "Improving Climate Understanding in Southeast Asia: A Coupled Regional Modelling Approach". He will be supervised by researchers from LEGOS and USTH.
• 01/12/2020: Nguyen Thi Hue obtained a "Bourse d'excellence" PhD grant from French Embassy, and begins her PhD about "Air sea fluxes over Southeast Asia : representation in GCMs and RCMs and impact of climate change". She will be supervised by researchers from LEGOS and USTH.

• 09/11/2020 : Joint WEO-SA LOTUS seminar in Vietnam, ICISE, Quy Nhon.
• 01/11/2020: Nguyen Vu Son begins his PhD about "Characterization and analysis of the bio-geochemical variability of Vietnamese coastal waters from high and medium spatial remote sensing observations in relation to natural and anthropogenic forcing" . He will be supervised by researchers from LOG and STI.

• 16/12/2019: Violaine Piton successfully defended her PhD and is now Doctor of University de Toulouse. Her thesis was about «From the Red River to the Gulf of Tonkin : hydrodynamics and sediment transport along the estuary-coastal area continuum » See more information here.

• 16/12/2019: Wei Xi successfully defended her PhD and is now Doctor of University de Toulouse. Her thesis was about «A modelling approach to diagnose the impacts of global changes on hydrology, suspended sediment and organic carbon in an Asian tropical basin: the case of the Red River (China and Vietnam)» See more information here.
• 01/10/2019: Le Hong Hanh obtained a joint PhD grant from University of Toulouse III. She will be supervised by researchers from LEGOS and USTH.

• 16-19/04/2019: Training course : altimetry for ocean, coastal surfaces and hydrology, USTH, Hanoi .

Satellite altimetry techniques have been developed for over 25 years, providing a huge amount of information about the ocean, coastal surfaces, hydrology and ice surfaces. In an era that sees a wealth of information coming from nadir, SAR and, in a couple of years, interferometric altimeters., it is important to know what information is available, how to use it, and what are their limits. In this perspective, we organized a 3 day altimetry course at USTH, Hanoi, from April 16th to April 19th 2019 with 15 participants from public and private Vietnamese institutions

• 03/04/2019 : The 24th International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group meeting will be organized at USTH the 4-6 April 2019. In this framework, a seminar on ”Ocean color remote sensing and related environmental applications” will be given at USTH the 3rd of April 2019 from 14h00 to 16h30 (room number will be provided later). Five complementary lectures will introduce the theory of ocean color remote sensing and present examples on the use of this technology in integrated coastal zone management.

This seminar is open to all. See the detailed program here.

• 21/01/2019: 1st meeting of LOTUS Monitoring Committee , USTH, Hanoi
• 01/12/2018 :The LOTUS annual activity report for 2018 is now available. Send a request to marine.herrmann@ird.fr to read it.
• 16/11/2018 : International Remote Sensing day on «Applying Remote Sensing and GIS in environment protection» was organised at STI, Hanoi.

• 13-15/11/2018 : LOTUS 2nd workshop on «Water and associated mater cycle along the atmosphere-continent-ocean continuum», focusing over the South East Asia and more particularly Vietnam, was at USTH, Hanoi. The objectives of the workshop were to present on-going work results about this topic, concerning in particular the functioning and variability of water and associated matter fluxes over two main rivers systems (Red River and Mekong) and in the Vietnam coastal marine regions, and to discuss future work and collaboration. The meeting gathered ~50 participants from French, Vietnamese and US institutions.

• 03/11/2018 : Ceremony for the official signature of the Memorendum of Understanding for the LOTUS LMI. The MoU was signed by Assoc. Prof. Dinh Thi Mai Thanh (IMER), Prof. Jean-Paul Moatti (IRD), Assoc. Prof. Tran Dinh Lan (IMER), Dr. Jean-Yves Le Gall (CNES) and Dr. Pham Minh Tuan (STI). The LOTUS LMI was also officially inaugurated at this occasion and scientists of LOTUS presented their work.

• 05/10/2018 : Vu Duy Vinh successfully defended his PhD and is now Doctor of USTH. His thesis was about «Suspended sediment dynamics in Red River distributaries and along the Red River delta: Focus on estuarine processes and recent balances» See more information here.
• 04/10/2018: Seminar on "Turbidity in large estuaries : observations, numerical modeling and long term trends" by Dr. Aldo Sottolichio, associate professor at UMR EPOC in University of Bordeaux, room 811 of USTH building, 11.30 a.m.
• 26-31/08/2018 : Summer School on Atmospheric Remote Sensing and Molecular Spectroscopy , organized by USTH and 14th Rencontres du Vietnam will take place at ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam. See more information here.
• 20-22/06/2018 : VIRGIL training school on Vietnam practical training for sea glider utilization , organized by IRD, DT-INSU and VNU-HUS took place at ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam. It gathered 23 participants who received an extensive and practical training about preparation, deployment and recovery of glider. See more information here.

• 2018/05/03 : Tran Manh Cuong obtained a joint PhD grant from Région Hauts-de-France and HUS/VNU. He will be supervised by researchers from LOG and VNU-HUS.

• 2018/05/18 : Nguyen Dac Da successfully defended his PhD and is now PhD of University of Toulouse. His PhD focused on "The interannual variability of the South Vietnam Upwelling : contributions of atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic forcing and the ocean intrinsic variability". See more information here and read his manuscript here .
• 2018/05/03 : To Duy Thai and Nguyen Duy Tung, USTH WEO master graduates, both obtained co-funded PhD grants from IRD ARTS program and French Embassy Bourses d'Excellence program. They will be supervised by researchers from USTH, LEGOS and IO.

• 2018/03/15: LOTUS kick-off workshop was held at USTH on March 28, 2018 : see more information here.

• 2017/11/27: The LOTUS (Study center of the Land-Ccean- aTmosphere regional coUpled System) LMI (Laboratoire Mixte International) has been officially approved by the Institute de Recherche pour le Dévelopment (IRD).