| Academic degree: | Docteur es Sciences | | Last name: | Morel | | First name: | Jean Louis | | Responsible for: | JSS-Soils, Section 2: Global change, environ risk assess, sustainable land use (SUITMA) | | Organization/Institute: | INPL/INRA | | Department: | Sols et Environnement | | Position: | Professor | | Street, Number, POB: | Avenue de la Forêt de Haye 2 | | Postal code, City: | 54505 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy | | State: | | | Country: | FRANCE | | Phone: | +33 3 83 59 58 47/ +33 6 | | Fax: | +33 83 59 57 91 | | E-mail address: | Jean-Louis.Morel@ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr | | Url: | http://www.lse.inpl-nancy.fr/Personnel/Annuaire/pperso/morel.html | | Curriculum vitae: | date of birth : May 3rd, 1950
married, 2 children
French
Professor, Environmental Biology,
Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (http://www.inpl-nancy.fr)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires (ENSAIA) (http://www.ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr)
Laboratoire Sols et Environnement (http://www.lse.inpl-nancy.fr)
UMR 1120 ENSAIA-INPL/INRA
2, avenue de la forêt de Haye, BP 172
F- 54505 Vandoeuvre les Nancy
tel : +33 3 83 59 58 47; fax : +33 3 83 59 57 91; Jean-Louis.Morel@ensaia.inpl-nancy.fr
I got my Agronomy engineer degree in 1973 and my doctorate in 1977 in Nancy. My carrier started in 1974 as Assistant-Professor, then Associate Professor in Soil Science. I spent a sabbatical at the University of Florida in 1987 and became Professor in 1988. I am now the head of the Laboratory for Soil and Environmental Sciences a group of 40 persons affiliated to INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) and Vice-President for Research of INPL (2002 - 2006). I lead the GISFI (http://www.gisfi.prd.fr) a scientific group devoted to the study of remediation of derelict land.
I. Education
1973 : Ingénieur Agronome (Agricultural Engineer Degree) from ENSAIA, Nancy, France.
DEA (MS Degree in Pedology), University of Nancy 1
1977 : Docteur Ingénieur, "Evolution of Sewage Slugdes in Soils", University of Nancy.
1985 : Docteur d'Etat Sciences :"Soil-to-plant transfert of heavy metals : the role of
root mucilages", Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Nancy.
II. Experience
1974-1984 Assistant, Soil Science, ENSAIA-INPL.
1984-1988 Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor), Soil Science, ENSAIA-INPL.
1987 Adjunct Assistant Professor (Sabbatical, 1year), University of Florida,
Gainesville, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences (Environmental microbiology), Scolarship from NATO.
1988-: Professor, Environmental Biology, ENSAIA-INPL.
1989-1991 : Director of Teaching Programme of ENSAIA.
1990-2002: Head of the Teaching Programme in Environmental Sciences ENSAIA.
1995- : Head of the Laboratoire Sols et Environnement UMR 1120 INPL/INRA
2002-2006 : Vice – President of INPL (Research)
III. Research interests (http://www.lse.inpl-nancy.fr/francais/personnel/MorelJL.php)
Urban and industrial pressure is increasing threat for soil functions. Functions are disturbed by the input of technologic materials which may reduce growth and development of plants and favour the contamination of the food chain by toxic components. On the other hand, plants roots which may change dramatically the soil composition and properties are able to modify the fate of pollutants in the rhizosphere, i.e. availability; plants may play a significant role in soil remediation. My research conducted for more than 3 decades is devoted to a better understanding of the consequences of the massive input of anthropogenic materials, such as urban wastes and industrial products on the soil properties and functioning, and on the risk of food contamination by pollutants. I have stressed on rhizosphere processes, including edible plants and metal hyperaccumulators, and contributed to the modelling of the evolution of anthropogenic soils and of the soil-to-plant transfer of pollutants (e.g. metals and radionuclides). Applications are urban waste management (sewage sludge, composts), risk assessment of polluted soils, soil remediation with a special interest in the phytoremediation process (phytoextraction and phytodegradation). Work is based on lab an field experiments, e.g. the experimental station of the GISFI (http://www.inpl-nancy.fr).
IV. Teaching
• Soil Science : pedogenesis, soil classification, fertility of soils, rhizosphere processes, soil pollution, dynamics of pollutants in the soil-plant system, functioning and evolution of urban and industrial soils.
• Environmental Engineering : risk assessment of polluted soils, soil remediation, phytoremediation, use of wastes in agriculture.
| | Areas of interest: | | SUITMA, Chair | | agricultural production in polluted areas | | agricultural soils, bioavailability | | bioavailability of contaminants | | biodegradation of contaminants | | bioremediation | | cadmium | | cleanup of toxic organic chemicals and metals | | contaminants in soils and sediments | | contaminated sites, removal of organic pollutants | | |
| | Articles: | 8 JSS (4) 206-207 (2008), SUITMA - soils in urban, industrial, traffic, mining and military areas
8 JSS (2) 130-136 (2008), Soil Construction: A Step for Ecological Reclamation of Derelict Lands (7 pp)
8 JSS (1) 17-22 (2008), Contribution of Technic Materials to the Mobile Fraction of Metals in Urban Soils in Marrakech (Morocco) (6 pp)
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