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-Personal details-

Surname DUBUS
First name Igor G.
Born 1972



-Professional experience-

2016- Various entrepreneurial projects

2009-2015 Founder and CEO, FOOTWAYS (Orleans, France)

Startup company specialised in the assessment and management of the risks of pesticides impacting on water resources
- Company identified by the national magazine 'Capital' in 2009 as one of the most promising startups in France
- 2 consecutive awards at the leading competition for startup companies in France (2009 & 2010)
- Selected as showcase at the Annual Innovation Congress in 2013 (1500 attendees in the room)
- Award at the 2013 Water Initiatives Contest for its work towards water protection
- Selected for participation at the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (Abu Dhabi)

- Creation of the company
- Development of a range of 5 SAAS software tools (multilingual web interfaces connected to a 600-core supercomputer) for pesticide risk assessment and management
- Management of the Intellectual Property (4 brands registered, IP protection)
- Securing of public and private commercial contracts in France and other countries in Europe
- Securing of public grants
- Raising of 1.8 M€ of seed money from VCs
- Recruitment and management of a team of 2-15 individuals
- Strategy definition
- Marketing of disruptive innovation
- Building of communication strategy
- Lobbying activities
- Network animation


2003-2009 Project manager, French Geological Survey (Orleans, France)

Field of expertise: use of modelling tools to evaluate the risks of pesticides impacting on water resources
- Raising of local, regional and national funding for R&D projects, including answers to calls for research
- Delivery of scientific projects
- Designer and coordinator of the European project FOOTPRINT (Overall Budget of 3 M€, 15 partner organisations, 9 European countries represented, ca. 50 scientists involved)
- Submission of an answer to the European call for research
- Coordination of the scientific work and production of deliverables (46 documents in 3.5 years)
- External and internal communication (newsletter distributed to 2500 individuals, organisation of annual seminars)
- Animation of the Steering Committee
- Successful transition from the R&D project to a startup company


2001-2003 Senior Research Scientist, Cranfield Centre for EcoChemistry, Cranfield University (Silsoe, UK)
Centre of excellence in the field of environmental risk assessments for pesticides

- Management and delivery of research projects focusing on the evaluation of the risks to groundwater and surface water associated with the agricultural use of pesticides
- Special expertise in the use of pesticide fate models (R&D projects and consultancy)
- Adviser to the Pesticides Safety Directorate on complex modelling matters
- Higher-tier modelling (model evaluation, sensitivity and uncertainty analyses, manual calibration and inverse modelling, spatially-distributed and statistical probabilistic modelling, model emulation): seeking of funding, research strategy, external communication, writing of scientific papers, monitoring of new developments and methodologies)
- Organisation of training events in my field of research


1997-2001 Research Scientist, Soil Survey and Land Research Centre, Cranfield University (Silsoe, UK)
R&D centre and consultancy services

- Research and consulting activities in the field of pesticide fate in soils
- Simulation of pesticide movement in the unsaturated zone
- Field lysimeter studies to investigate the leaching potential of compounds


1996-1997 Junior research officer, ORSTOM (Noumea, New Caledonia, South Pacific)
Overseas R&D Centre

- Experiments to investigate the sorption of phosphorus in New Caledonian soils (laboratory, glasshouse, field)
- Assistance to a PhD candidate who investigated the leaching potential of nitrate in soils of a tropical island


1995 Research trainee, INRA, Soil Science Unit (Grignon, France)
R&D Centre

- Batch experiments in the laboratory to investigate the sorption of 3 ionic pesticides in soils
- Improvements in the simulation of pesticide sorption for ionic compounds as a function of pH


1994 Research trainee, IRRI International Rice Research Institute (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
International R&D Centre

- Glasshouse experiments to investigate the management of 2 contrasted Cambodian soil types
- Surveys of rice farmers to better understand their management practices




-Education-

2002 PhD, Cranfield University (UK). Thesis [1.8 MB] on the Calibration of Pesticide Leaching Models.
1995 Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (France)[roughly equivalent to a broad MSc in Life Sciences]




-Languages and IT skills-

Languages - English: fluent
- French: fluent (mother tongue)
- German: good command
- Khmer: basic skills

IT

- In-depth knowledge of pesticide fate models used for pesticide registration in Europe: MACRO, PELMO, PRZM, PESTLA, PESTRAS, PEARL.
- Monte Carlo / probabilistic risk assessments: @Risk, Crystal Ball 2000, UNCSAM
- Inverse modelling: PEST, UCODE
- Automation of modelling tasks: SENSAN, Perl, XL-VBA
- Statistical software: STATISTICA, XLstat
- Programming : Perl, Fortran, Visual Basic for Applications
- Internet: HTML, PHP




-Peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature-


Jarvis N.J., Moyes J., Hollis J.M., Reichenberger S., Lindahl A. & Dubus I.G.. (2009). A conceptual model of soil susceptibility to macropore flow. Vadose Zone Journal, 8:902-910.

Lindahl A.I., Dubus I.G. & Jarvis N.J. (2009). Site classification to predict the abundance of the deep-burrowing earthworm Lumbricus terrestris L.. Vadose Zone Journal, 8:911-915. PDF

Visser A., Dubus I.G., Broers H.P., Brouyère S., Korcz M., Heerdink R., Orban P., Goderniaux P., Battle-Aguilar J., Surdyk N., Amraoui N., Job H., Pinault J.L. & Bierkens M. (2009). Comparison of methods for the detection and extrapolation of trends in groundwater quality. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 11, 2030-2043. PDF

Nolan B.T., Dubus I.G. & Surdyk N. (2009). A refined lack-of-fit statistic to calibrate pesticide fate models in responsive systems. Pest Management Science, DOI 10.1002/ps.1825. PDF

Centofanti T., Hollis J.M., Blenkinsop S., Fowler H.J., Truckell I., Dubus I.G. & Reichenberger S. (2008). The development of agro-environmental scenarios to support environmental risk assessments for agricultural pollutants in Europe. The Science of the Total Environment, 407:574-588. PDF

Nolan B.T., Dubus I.G., Surdyk N., Fowler H.J., Burton A., Hollis J.M., Reichenberger S. & Jarvis N.J. (2008). Identification of key climatic factors regulating the transport of pesticides in leaching and to tile drains. Pest Management Science, 64(9):933-944. PDF

Pinault J.L. & Dubus I.G. (2008). Stationary and non-stationary autoregressive processes with external inputs for predicting trends in water quality. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 100:22-29. PDF

Barriuso E., Benoit P. & Dubus I.G. (2008). The formation of pesticide bound residues in soil: magnitude, controlling factors and reversibility. Environmental Science & Technology, 42(6):1845-1854. PDF

Blenkinsop S., Fowler H.J., Dubus I.G., Nolan B.T. & Hollis J.M. (2008). Developing climatic scenarios for pesticide fate modelling in Europe. Environmental Pollution, 154:219-231. PDF

Barth J.A.C., Kalbus E., Schmidt C., Bayer-Raich M., Reinstorf F., Schirmer M., Thiéry D., Dubus I.G., Gutierrez A., Baran N., Mouvet C., Petelet-Giraud E., Négrel Ph., Banton O., Batlle Aguilar J., Brouyère S., Goderniaux P., Orban Ph., Rozemeijer J.C., Visser A., Bierkens M.F.P., Van der Grift B., Broers H.P., Marsman A., Klaver G., Slobodnik J. & Grathwohl P. (2007). Selected groundwater studies of EU project AquaTerra leading to large-scale basin considerations. Water Practice & Technology, 2(3), doi10.2166/wpt.2007.062. PDF

Calvet R., Barriuso E. & Dubus I.G. (2007). Application of two surface complexation models to the adsorption of weak organic acids by soil: an additive approach. European Journal of Soil Science, 58:609-624. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2006.00846.x. PDF

Beulke S., Brown C.D., Dubus I.G., Galicia H., Jarvis N., Schaeffer D. & Trevisan M. (2006). User subjectivity in Monte Carlo modelling of pesticide exposure. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 25(8):2227-2236. PDF

van den Brink P.J., Brown C.D. & Dubus I.G. (2006). Using the expert model PERPEST to translate measured and predicted pesticide exposure data into ecological risks. Ecological Modelling, 191:106-117. PDF

Dubus I.G., Beulke S., Brown C.D., Gottesbüren B. & Dieses A. (2004). Inverse modelling for estimating sorption and degradation parameters for pesticides. Pest Management Science, 60:859-874. PDF

Beulke S., Brown C.D., Dubus I.G., Fryer C.J. & Walker A. (2004). Evaluation of probabilistic modelling approaches against data on leaching of isoproturon through undisturbed lysimeters. Ecological modelling, 179:131-144. PDF

Brown C.D., Dubus I.G., Fogg P., Spirlet M. & Gustin C. (2004). Exposure to sulfosulfuron in agricultural drainage ditches: field monitoring and scenario-based modelling. Pest Management Science, 60:765-776. PDF

Holman I.P., Dubus I.G., Hollis J.M. & Brown C.D. (2004). Using a linked soil model emulator and unsaturated zone leaching model to account for preferential flow when assessing the spatially distributed risk of pesticide leaching to groundwater in England and Wales. The Science of the Total Environment, 318:73-88. PDF

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D. & Beulke S. (2003). Sources of uncertainty in pesticide fate modelling. The Science of the Total Environment, 317:53-72. PDF

Dubus I.G. & Janssen P.H.M. (2003). Issues of replicability in pesticide fate modelling: a case study with a pesticide leaching model. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 22:3081-3087. PDF

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D. & Beulke S. (2003). Sensitivity analyses for four leaching models. Pest Management Science, 59:962-982. PDF

Brown C.D., Hart A., Lewis K.A. & Dubus I.G. (2003). p-EMA: simulating the environmental fate of pesticides for a farm-level risk assessment system. Agronomie, 23:67-74. PDF

Dubus I.G., Beulke S. & Brown C.D. (2002). Calibration of pesticide leaching models: critical review and guidance for reporting. Pest Management Science, 58:745-758. PDF

Dubus I.G. & Brown C.D. (2002). Sensitivity and first-step uncertainty analyses for the preferential flow model MACRO. Journal of Environmental Quality, 31:227-240. PDF

Brown C.D., Bellamy P.B. & Dubus I.G. (2002). Prediction of pesticide concentrations found in rivers in the UK. Pest Management Science, 58:363-373. PDF

Dubus I.G., Barriuso E. & Calvet R. (2001). Sorption of organic acids in soils: clofencet, 2,4-D and salicylic acid. Chemosphere, 45:767-774. PDF

Dubus I.G. & Becquer T. (2001). Phosphorus sorption and desorption in oxide-rich soils of New Caledonia. Australian Journal of Soil Research, 39:403-414. PDF

Beulke S., Brown C.D., Dubus I.G. & Harris G. (2001). Evaluation of uncalibrated preferential flow models against data for isoproturon movement to drains through a heavy clay soil. Pest Management Science, 57:537-547. PDF

Dubus I.G., Hollis J.M. & Brown C.D. (2000). Pesticides in rainfall in Europe. Environmental Pollution, 110:331-344. PDF

Beulke S., Dubus I.G., Brown C.D. & Gottesbüren B. (2000). Simulation of pesticide persistence in the field on the basis of laboratory data - a review. Journal of Environmental Quality, 29:1371-1379. PDF

Dubus I.G., Richard H., White P.F. & Bolton M. (1997). Fertiliser management on two contrasting soil types in the rainfed lowland rice production system in Cambodia. International Rice Research Notes, 22:45. PDF

Dubus I.G. (1997). Phosphorus sorption in soils – a review (in French). Documents Scientifiques ORSTOM No. 54, 76pp. PDF




-Book chapter-


Dubus I.G. (2004). Probabilistic approaches in pesticide exposure modelling (in French). In: E. Barriuso (Coord.). Estimation des risques environnementaux des pesticides. INRA Editions, Paris. pp. 41-56. ISBN: 2738011101, 204 p.




-Conference papers / oral communications / posters-


The list is not kept up-to-date anymore.

Madier S., Leviandier T. & Dubus I.G. (2006). Predictions of event-based pesticide flux at the catchment scale: a model evaluation exercise. The 7th International Conference on HydroInformatics, Nice, France, 4-8 September 2006.

Dubus I.G., Azimonti G., Bach M., Barriuso E., Bidoglio G., Bouraoui F., Fialkiewicz W., Fowler H., François O., Højberg A., Hollis J., Jarvis N., Kajewski I., Kjær J., Lewis K., Lobnik F., Lolos P., Réal B., Reichenberger S., Stenemo F., Suhadolc M., Surdyk N. & Vavoulidou–Theodorou E. (2006). FOOTPRINT, a new European project to develop tools for pesticide risk assessment and management. Poster presentation at SETAC Europe 16th Annual Meeting, The Hague, The Netherlands, 7-11 May 2006.

Dubus I.G., Azimonti G., Bach M., Barriuso E., Bidoglio G., Bouraoui F., Fialkiewicz W., Fowler H., François O., Højberg A., Hollis J., Jarvis N., Kajewski I., Kjær J., Lewis K., Lobnik F., Lolos P., Réal B., Reichenberger S., Stenemo F., Suhadolc M., Surdyk N. & Vavoulidou–Theodorou E. (2006). Introducing FOOTPRINT: Functional Tools for Pesticide Risk Assessment and Management. Oral presentation at the Warwick conference on Pesticide Bahviour in Soils, Water and Air, Warwick, UK, 27-29 March 2006.

Fialkiewicz W., Dubus I.G., Azimonti G., Bach M., Barriuso E., Bidoglio G., Bouraoui F., Fowler H., François O., Højberg A., Hollis J., Jarvis N., Kajewski I., Kjær J., Lewis K., Lobnik F., Lolos P., Réal B., Reichenberger S., Stenemo F., Suhadolc M., Surdyk N. & Vavoulidou–Theodorou E. (2006). FOOTPRINT, an EU project for pesticide risk assessment and management. International Conference 'Soil Protection Strategy - needs and approaches for policy support'. Pulawy, Poland, 9-11 March 2006.

Dubus I.G. (2005). Introducing FOOTPRINT: Functional Tools for Pesticide Risk Assessment and Management. Oral presentation at the 4th European Modelling Worshop, Paris, France, 21-22 November 2005. Presentation

Thiéry D., Golaz C., Gutierrez A., Darsy C., Mouvet C. & Dubus I.G. (2005). Refinements to the MARTHE model to enable the simulation of the fate of agricultural contaminants from the soil surface to and in groundwater. Oral presentation at the 4th European Modelling Worshop, Paris, France, 21-22 November 2005. Presentation

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D., Beulke. S. & Gottesbueren B. (2005). Issues of non-uniqueness in the calibration of pesticide leaching models. Proceedings of MODELCARE 2005, Fifth International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling, From Uncertainty to Decision Making. The Hague, The netherlands, 06-09/06/2005. Book of proceedings, 263-268.

Thiéry D., Golaz C., Gutierrez A., Fialkiewicz W., Darsy C., Mouvet C. & Dubus I.G. (2004). Refinements to the MARTHE model to enable the simulation of the fate of agricultural contaminants from the soil surface to and in groundwater. Proceedings of the COST international workshop, Saturated and unsaturated zone: integration of process knowledge into effective models, Rome, Italy, 5-7 May 2004. ISBN 88-7830-387-9, pp. 315-320.

Mouvet C., Albrechtsen H.J., Baran N., Chen T., Clausen L., Dubus I.G., Douguet J.-M., Esposito A., Fialkiewicz W., Gutierrez A., Haverkamp R., Herbst M., Howles D., Jarvis N.J., Jorgensen P.R., Larsbo M., Meiwirth K., Mermoud A., Morvan X., Normand B., O’Connor M., Ritsema C., Roessle S., Roulier S., Soutter M., Stenemo F., Thiéry D., Trevisan M., Vachaud G., Vereecken H. & Vischetti C. (2004). Integration into effective models of process knowledge gained on the unsaturated and saturated zones: results from the PEGASE project. Proceedings of the COST international workshop, Saturated and unsaturated zone: integration of process knowledge into effective models, Rome, Italy, 5-7 May 2004. ISBN 88-7830-387-9, pp. 211-226.

Dubus I.G. (2004). From lower to higher tiers in the assessment of leaching to GW: a case study. Oral communication at the 3rd European Modelling Workshop, Catania, Italy, 17-19 February 2004.

Dubus I.G. & Brown C.D. (2003). How much confidence should we assign to results obtained through Monte Carlo modelling? Proceedings XII Symposium Pesticide Chemistry, 4-6 June 2003, Piacenza, Italy, 409-415.

Brown C.D., Maund S.J., Holmes C., Dubus I.G., Turner N.L., Hendley P. & Sweeney P.J.J. (2003). Lanscape-level approaches to risk assessment for pesticides. Proceedings XII Symposium Pesticide Chemistry, 4-6 June 2003, Piacenza, Italy, 633-640.

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D. & Beulke S. (2002). Probabilistic approaches and pesticide exposure: a long way from home? SETAC Europe 12th Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria. Book of Abstracts, 126.

Dubus I.G. (2002). Invited chairman, session on implications of the presence of pesticides in the atmosphere. Technical Meeting on Pesticides in Air, ADEME-UIPP, 29 January 2002.

Dubus I.G. (2001). Environmental fate of herbicides and registration: towards more realistic assessments. Oral presentation in French at the COLUMA International Meeting on Weed Control, Toulouse, France, 5-7 December 2001. Conference proceedings, 1:163-169.

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D. & Beulke S. (2001). Sources of uncertainty in pesticide fate modelling. Oral communication at the BCPC symposium on Pesticide Behaviour in Soils and Water, Brighton, UK. 13-15 November 2001. Symposium proceedings 78:239-244.

Brown C.D., Dubus I.G. & Gustin C. (2001). A spatially distributed risk assessment for higher aquatic plants in the UK. BCPC symposium on Pesticide Behaviour in Soils and Water, Brighton, UK. 13-15 November 2001. Symposium proceedings 78:265-270.

Beulke S., Brown C.D. Walker A. & Dubus I.G. (2001). Characterisation of sorption for pesticide fate modelling. BCPC symposium on Pesticide Behaviour in Soils and Water, Brighton, UK. 13-15 November 2001. Symposium proceedings 78:51-56.

Gottesbüren B., Platz K., van de Veen J.R., Dieses A., Dubus I.G. & Beulke S. (2001). Estimation of pesticide parameters from static and dynamic experiments at different scales by different modelling groups. BCPC symposium on Pesticide Behaviour in Soils and Water, Brighton, UK. 13-15 November 2001. Symposium proceedings 78:89-94.

Beulke S., Brown C.D., Dubus I.G. & FRYER C.J. (2001). Evaluation of probabilistic modelling approaches against data on leaching of isoproturon through undisturbed lysimeters. The Eight Symposium on the Chemistry and Fate of Modern Pesticides. Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-24 August 2001.

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D. & Hollis J.M. (2001). Uncertainty and probabilistic approaches to exposure assessment. Poster presented at the first European Workshop on Probabilistic Risk Assessment for the Environmental Effects of Plant Protection Products. Hotel Leeuwenhorst, The Netherlands, 5-8 June 2001.

Brown C.D., Dubus I.G. & Gustin C. (2001). A distributed probabilistic assessment: exposure of surface water in the UK to pesticide entering via drainflow. Poster presented at the first European Workshop on Probabilistic Risk Assessment for the Environmental Effects of Plant Protection Products. Hotel Leeuwenhorst, The Netherlands, 5-8 June 2001.

Dubus I.G. (2001). Probabilistic assessment of exposure in the pesticide registration context (in French). Invited speaker to a two-day INRA workshop on pesticide exposure, Grignon, France, 2-3 July 2001.

Dubus I.G. (2001). Incorporating uncertainty into the modelling the fate of pesticides in soil (in French). Oral communication presented at the XXXI GFP congress, Lyon, France, 15-17 May 2001.

Brown C.D., Beulke S. & Dubus I.G. (2000). Progress in simulating macropore flow through soil. BCPC conference - Pests & Diseases, Brighton, 13-16 Nov 2000, 85-90.

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D. & Beulke S. (1999). Sensitivity analyses for the FOCUS leaching models. The 1999 Brighton Conference (BCPC), Weeds, Session 6B: Herbicides in the environment, modelling approaches, 15-19 November 1999, 2:543-548.

Brown C.D., Beulke S. & Dubus I.G. (1999). Simulating pesticide transport via preferential flow: a current perspective. XI Symposium on Pesticide Chemistry, Human and Environmental Exposure to Xenobiotics, Cremona, Italy, 12-15 September 1999.

Dubus I.G., Hollis J.M., Brown C.D., Lythgo C. & Jarvis J. (1998). Implications of a first-step environmental assessment for the atmospheric deposition of pesticides in the UK. Brighton Crop Protection Conference, Pests and Diseases, 16-18 November 1998, 1:273-278

Beulke S., Brown C.D., Dubus I.G. & Williams R.J. (1998). Comparison of preferential flow models against data for pesticide transport through a heavy clay soil. IUPAC International Congress on Pesticide Chemistry, 2-7 August 1998, London.

Dubus I.G., Becquer T., Bonzon B. & Calvet R. (1998). Phosphorus sorption in two Geric Ferralsols of New Caledonia. 16th World Congress of Soil Science, Montpellier, 20-26 Aug. 1998, Symposium No 6.

L’Huillier L., Dupont S., Dubus I.G., Becquer T., Bourdon E., Laubreaux P. & Bonzon B. (1998). Phosphorus sorption and deficiency in Ferralsols of New Caledonia (in French). 16th World Congress of Soil Science, Montpellier, 20-26 Aug. 1998, Symposium No 13.




-Research reports-


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Cerdan O., Baghdadi N., Denux J.P., Desprats J.P., Gay M., Albergel C., Dubus I.G., Dupros F., Holah N. & El Hajj M. (2006). Flood forecasting in southern France (in French). BRGM report RP-54218-FR, 123 pages.

Dubus I.G. & Surdyk N. (2006). State-of-the-art review on pesticide fate models and environmental indicators. Report DL#4 of the FP6 EU-funded FOOTPRINT project [www.eu-footprint.org], 39p.

Baran N., Dubus I.G., Morvan X., Normand M., Gutierrez A. & Mouvet C. (2005). Climatic and land use data for the Brévilles experimental catchment. BRGM contribution to Deliverable T2.2 of the TREND2 work package of the AquaTerra project, 12p.

Gourcy L., Dubus I.G., Baran N., Mouvet C. & Gutierrez A. (2005). Environmental tracers used for age dating of young groundwater: critical review for application to fractured aquifers. BRGM contribution to Deliverable T2.3 of the TREND2 work package. BRGM contribution to Deliverable T2.3 of the TREND2 work package of the AquaTerra project, 34p.

Gourcy L., Dubus I.G., Baran N., Mouvet C. & Gutierrez A. (2005). First investigations into the use of environmental tracers for age dating at the Brévilles experimental catchment. BRGM contribution to Deliverable T2.3 of the TREND2 work package. BRGM contribution to Deliverable T2.3 of the TREND2 work package of the AquaTerra project, 7p.

Pinault J.-L., Guyonnet D., Dubus I.G., Baran N., Gutierrez A. & Mouvet C. (2005). Conventional and innovative approaches to trends analysis: a case study for the Brévilles catchment. BRGM contribution to Deliverable T2.3 of the TREND2 work package of the AquaTerra project, 58p.

Mouvet C., Albrechtsen H.J., Baran N., Chen T., Clausen L., Darsy C., Desbionne S., Douguet J.-M., Dubus I.G., Fialkiewicz W., Gutierrez A., Haverkamp R., Herbst M., Howles D., Jarvis N.J., Jørgensen P.R., Larsbo M., Meiwirth K., Mermoud A., Morvan X., Normand B., O’Connor M., Ritsema C., Roessle S., Roulier S., Soutter M., Stenemo F., Thiéry D., Vachaud G., Vereecken H., Vischetti C. (2004). PEGASE. Pesticides in European Groundwaters : detailed study of representative Aquifers and Simulation of possible Evolution scenarios. Dubus I.G. and C. Mouvet (Editors). Final report of the European project #EVK1-CT1990-00028. BRGM/RP-52897-FR, 358 p., 196 fig., 57 tabl., 1 app. Download

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D., Beulke S. & Turner N.L. (2002). Uncertainty and probabilistic approaches to pesticide fate modelling. Cranfield Centre for EcoChemistry research report for DEFRA/PSD no. PL0548, 139p. Download [2.8 MB]

Dubus I.G. & Beulke S. (2001). Calibration of pesticide leaching models: procedures and guidance for reporting. Cranfield Centre for EcoChemistry research report for DEFRA/PSD no. PL0539, 33p.

Dubus I.G. & Beulke S. (2001). Independent calibration of PEARL against lysimeter data by two modellers. Cranfield Centre for EcoChemistry research report for DEFRA/PSD no. PL0539, 59p.

Dubus I.G., Brown C.D. & Beulke S. (2000). Sensitivity analyses for the leaching models used for pesticide registration in Europe. SSLRC research report for MAFF/PSD no. PL0532, 407p. Download [1.8 MB]

Dubus I.G., Beulke S. & Brown C.D. (2000). A briefing document on the application of inverse modelling techniques to pesticide leaching models. SSLRC research report for MAFF/PSD no. PL0528/JF3735E, 44p.

Brown C.D., Bellamy P.H., Dubus I.G., Fryer C.J. & Smith H.L. (2000). Further development of the POPPIE database. Part 2: validation of the surface water model. SSLRC research report for the Environment Agency no. E1-066/JF4288V, 64p.

Hollis J.M, Holman I.P., Najarro P., Smith H.L. & Dubus I.G. (2000). Further development of the POPPIE database. Part 1: the development of a groundwater contamination risk assessment methodology. SSLRC research report for the Environment Agency no. E1-066/JF4288V, 48p.

Beulke S., Brown C.D., Fryer C.J. & Dubus I.G. (2000). Lysimeter study to investigate the effect of rainfall patterns on pesticide leaching and the viability of stochastic approaches for risk quantification. SSLRC research report JF3733E for MAFF, 68p.

Brown C.D., Dubus I.G., Marshall V.L. & Fryer C.J. (1999). Pesticide leaching through cracking clay soils in relation to management practices, soil structure and timing of application. Annual report 1998/99. SSLRC research report JF 3734E for MAFF PL0524, 16p.

Beulke S., Brown C.D. & Dubus I.G. (1999). Simulating pesticide movement through soil via preferential flow: current approaches and future developments. SSLRC contract for MAFF/PSD, 109p.

Beulke S., Dubus I.G. & Brown C.D. (1999). Investigations on inverse modelling as a tool for estimating degradation and sorption parameters for pesticides. SSLRC contract report JF 4198S, 76p.

Dubus I.G. & Hollis J.M. (1999). Pesticides in rainfall in Europe, a review. SSLRC contract report for MAFF/PSD No 3735E, 28p.

Beulke S., Brown C.D. & Dubus I.G. (1998). Evaluation of the use of preferential flow models to predict the movement of pesticides to water sources under UK conditions. SSLRC contract report PL0516 for MAFF/PSD, 101p.

Dubus I.G. & Hollis J.M. (1998). A review of existing data on the aerial deposition of pesticides in the UK. SSLRC contract report for MAFF/PSD No 3735E, 36p.




-Consultancy reports (1998-2003)-

>20 reports (from lower-tier PECs to high-end modelling studies)


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