Sediment-Water Interactions Summer School 2025 in Wimereux (23-27 June 2025) :

We offer an intensive programme (30h training) with a few general lectures focused on the sediment-water interactions and measurements of exchanges at sediment-water interface, but also field and experimental demonstrations of measurements using various and cutting-edge approaches.

This training is certified by the University of Lille, allowing participants to obtain a certificate corresponding to a 30h training (ECTS Doctoral credits).

Specific questions that will be addressed during the Sediment-Water Interactions Summer School 2025 :

• What are the main Interactions between sediments and water ?
• Total vs diffusive exchanges ? State of the Art and background
• How to measure sediment-water interactions and/or exchanges ?
• Methodological approaches (sediment-water flux measurements, microsensors, Porewater extraction and analysis, Diffusion Gels) with field trip (estuary) & Lab. Demonstrations (benthic chambers, microsensors, core incubations, ...)
• How can we apply our knowledge of sediment-water interactions to solve problems in the near future ?

Programme

The Summer School will focus on theoretical background and practical measurements of sediment-water interactions, with a focus on 5 workshops. Each participant will spend half a day specifically on each workshop, with practical demonstrations, and practical teamwork (3-6 persons per team).

Introductory and theoretical background lectures will be given on Monday 23 June and Tuesday 24 June in the morning.

On Tuesday afternoon, a field trip (by bus) will be organized to the nearby Canche estuary (50 kms), for estuarine description, samplings and field demonstrations.

From Wednesday 25 June early morning until Friday 27 late morning, five different workshops will be supervised by specialists in water-sediment interactions, a list of whom you can find in the section Lecturers and Workshop supervisors.

• Workshop 1: Microplastics & bioturbation
• Workshop 2: DET, DGT gels, sulfur & interstial water
• Workshop 3: Microphytobenthos production & fluorescence
• Workshop 4: Benthic Chambers & Core incubations
• Workshop 5: Sedimentary dynamics & Stratigraphy

Please note the financial support of the companies Pyroscience (Germany) and LiCor (USA & Europe), but also Elementar and ScientEquip (France) but also the active participation of Pyroscience (Germany) and LiCor (USA & Europe) with staff from these companies specialized in the operation of these equipment  to Workshops 2 and 4, with demo in the field and in the laboratory.