Agriculture and Air Quality (PDF)

Carole BEDOS



After a PhD in atmospheric physico-chemistry focusing on aerosol modelling, Carole Bedos has been working as a Researcher for INRAE since 1999. Her main research interests are pesticide emission to the atmosphere, atmospheric dispersion and deposition, and recently population exposure to pesticides via the atmosphere. Her area of expertise therefore covers the fate of pesticides in the atmosphere as well as the associated experimental methodologies from the lab to field conditions and modelling at the local and regional scale. She also contributes to national working groups for ministries and French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety on the mitigation of pesticide emissions to the atmosphere, recommendations for national monitoring of air contamination by pesticides or recommendations for the assessment of resident exposure to pesticides.



Sophie GENERMONT



Sophie Génermont has been working as a Researcher at INRAE from 1992. She is an agronomist, and from her PhD. thesis in atmospheric physico-chemistry, she has been studying ammonia volatilization from cropped fields. She is developing transfer tools and structures for both measurement and modelling at local and regional scales. She is involved as task carrier or coordinator in projects on fertilization and/or air pollution. Her research theme is part of the agronomic and environmental assessment of the agricultural recycling of organic waste products generated by anthropogenic activities and the nitrogen fertilization of crops most specifically in terms of air quality. She contributes to national and international expert groups relative to these subjects. She also leads a nationwide technology network on the issues of recycling, fertilization and environmental impacts involving some 40 research, R&D, development and educational organizations.



Jean-François CASTELL



After a master degree in ecology and plant