Laure Sicard

PhD Student

PhD funded by MSCA at the university of Zaragoza, part of the RESCUER research network on Coastal Hazards, River Dynamics, Urban Flooding and Water Quality. She firstly did two years of engineering school at the ENSG “Ecole National Superieur de Géologie” in Nancy (France) and specialized herself in hydrogeology. She secondly did the Erasmus MUNDUS MER+ during two years to get a master in oceanography, an international program delivered by 3 different universities (Southampton (UK), Bordeaux (France) and Bilbao (UPV – Spain)) and got her master thesis done in AZTI, oceanographic center in San Sebastian (Spain).

Laure Sicard is a PhD student working principally on a global numerical model for estuarine and riverine environments. Her main goal is to contribute to an on-going experimental GPU model by adding the following elements:

• 2D Multi-Solute Transport: added to the 2D shallow water equations, useful to represent the salt and other kind of solutes in estuaries.
• 2D Multi-Sediment Transport + bed load: To represent the important quantities of sediments going through an estuary.
• 2D Multi-Layer model to transport one scalar: alternative model to the multi-solute transport: To represent the salt concentration in the water column as there will be exchanges between the salty water from the ocean and the river.
• 2D Underground flows model using the information of the two previous models: To better represent the importance of underground water fluxes for estuarine global environment (ex: salinization of aquifers)