2. Dr. Jean-Louis Martin- expert in environmental aspects of aquaculture and in chemical
coastal pollution
3. Mr. Herve Chartois, engineer in acquisition data, automatism, instrumentation, computing
4. Dr Monique Pommepuy-expert on marine microbiology.
5. Mr Olivier Courtois, specialized in acredited laboratory for microbiology in water and marine organisms
6. Dr Dominique Birot, engineerr in water quality measurements.
7. Dr Sebastien Lefebvre, expert in modelling of integrated aquaculture systems
(sub-contractor 1: University of Caen)
8. Dr Pr Herve Le Bris, specialist in aquacultural diseases and chemoterapy (sub-contractor 2: ENVN)
Dr. Jerome Hussenot - jhusseno@ifremer.fr
Centre de Recherche en Ecologie Marine et Aquaculture de L'Houmeau (IFREMER-CNRS)
Ph.D. in applied ecology, Orleans, France (1972), senior scientist, coordinator for IFREMER
and French partners, expert in pond aquaculture management, coastal environment,
semi-extensive -intensive aquaculture, open microalgal systems , outdoor treatment of
sea-water, worked as director of AQUALIVE, a pilot land-based aquaculture farm of CNEXO
(1979-1984), and as head of the aquaculture-environment team in the Centre de Recherche en
Ecologie Marine et Aquaculture (1985-1999).
Selected publications:
Hussenot, J., Lefebvre, S. and Brossard, N., 1998. Open-air treatment of wastewater
from land-based marine fish farms in extensive and intensive systems: current technology
and future perspectives. Aquat. Liv. Res., 11(4): 297-304.
Hussenot, J., Buchet, V. (Eds), 1998. Marais maritimes et aquaculture. Activite
durable pour la preservation et l'exploitation des zones humides littorales. Seminaire du
6-8 juin 1996, Centre International de la Mer, la Corderie Royale, Rochefort. IFREMER,
Plouzane, 279 p.
Hussenot, J., Lefebvre, S. and Martin, J.-L.M., 2000. Effluents from land based
marine farms nature, treatment, valorisation, modelisation. Applications to fish and shrimp
rearing, Man and coastal areas. Towards a sustainable aquaculture. Final report of the
European workshop for a sustainable development of aquaculture. Suède, Service Scientifique
et Technologique de l'Ambassade de France / AFSR, Stockholm, pp.95-102.
Dr. Jean-Louis Martin - jlmartin@ifremer.fr
Centre de Recherche en Ecologie Marine et Aquaculture de L'Houmeau (IFREMER-CNRS)
Ph.D. (Docteur es Sciences) in Chemistry (1975),senior scientist in IFREMER, expert in
environmental aspects of aquaculture and in chemical coastal pollution, reviewer for the EU projects.
Selected publications:
Martin, J.-L.M., Veran, Y., Guelorget, O. and Pham, D., 1998.
Shrimp rearing: stocking density, impact on sediment, waste output; their relationships studied
through the nitrogen budget in rearing ponds. Aquaculture, 164: 135-149.
Lemarie, G., Martin, J.-L.M., Dutto, G. and Garidou, C., 1998. Nitrogenous and phosphorous
waste production in a flow-through land-based farm of European Seabees (Dicentrarchus labrax).
Aquat. Liv. Res., 11(4): 247-254.
Herve Chartois -
Centre de Recherche en Ecologie Marine et Aquaculture de L'Houmeau (IFREMER-CNRS)
BTS Biophysique in 1970, engineer in instrumentation, data-acquisition, automatism, and computing.
Selected publications:
Schurmann, H., Claireaux, G. and Chartois, H., 1998. Changes in vertical distribution of
sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) during a hypoxic episode. In: J.-P. Lagardère, M.-L. Begout Anras
and G. Claireaux (Editors), Advances in invertebrates and fish telemetry.
Proceedings of the second conference on fish telemetry in Europe, La Rochelle, France, 5-9 April 1997.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 207-213.
Dosdat A., Gaumier F., Chartois H., 1994. Marine aquaculture effluent monitoring:
methodological approach to the evaluation of Nitrogen and Phospohus excretion by fish.
Aquacult. Engin., 14: 59-84
Dr. Monique Pommepuy - pommepuy@ifremer.fr
Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Amenagement du Littoral - Laboratoire de microbiologie, Brest.
PhD Rennes in 1995, engineer Ecole Nationale Superieure des Techniques Avances. ENSTA, 1972.
Head of the microbial laboratory IFREMER (Brest and Nantes) . Microbiology of coastal areas,
survival of E. coli, Salmonella in aquatic environment ; physiological activity of E. coli in sea water
(enzymatic activities, respiratory chain, survival) ; effect of physical dilution on microbiol water quality
in coastal areas ; impact of sewage on environment (viruses, pathogen bacteria); coastal management,
studies on disinfection of wastewater after depuration (UV, ozone, peracetic acid...) molecular tools
for pathogens detection (probes, hybridization, PCR) ; environment- aquaculture.
Coordinator of European Project Quality of Life: "Virus Safe Seafood". Contract n° QLK1-CT-1999-00634 (2000 -2003).
Selected publications:
Pommepuy, M. and Le Guyader, F., 1998. Molecular approaches to measuring microbial
marine pollution. Curr. Opinion Biotech., 9 (3 ): 292-299.
Lazarova V., Savoye P., Janex M.L., Blatchley E.R., Pommepuy M., 1999. Advanced
wastewater disinfection technologies: state of the art and perspectives. Wat. Sci. Tech.,
Vol. 40, n° 4, 203-213.
Miossec L., Cornen Y., Le Guyader F., Pommepuy M., 1999. Viral risk assessment
linked to shellfish consumption in France a first approach. Proceedings of the SRA-E 8th
Conference, Paris, October 11 - 14, 1998-1999, 355-365.
Oliver Courtois - olivier.courtois@ifremer.fr
Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Amenagement du Littoral - Laboratoire cotier La Tremblade.
From 1998 sampling and analyses of shellfish, water and sediments in pollution suspected areas.
Technical responsability of the microbiological laboratory of IFREMER DEL La Tremblade
(COFRAC Agreement, ref : EN 45001).
Five years of experience in accredited laboratories of microbiology. , (COFRAC accreditation, ref EN 45001).
Selected publications:
Courtois 0., Roesberg D., 1998. « Suivi de la contamination bacteriologique sur les sites de Ronce les Bains (reseau pluvial)
et Saint Pierre d'Ol?ron (chenal de la Perrotine). Rapport interne Ifremer.12 - 98 - DEL/LT RST / 98-14.
Masson D., Auger C., Bouquet J.P.., Courtois O.,kantin R., Roesberg D, 1999. « Recherche des sources de pollution
bacteriologique dans le bassin de Marennes - Oleron. Fevrier 1998 - Fevrier 1999 ». Ifremer. 11-99 - R.INT.DEL/La Tremblade.
Masson D., Courtois O., Masson N., Guesdon S., Rocher G., Margat S., 2000. « Etude des eaux de ballast de navires faisant
escale dans les ports francais ». Ifremer. Decembre 2000-RST.DEL/0013/La Tremblade.
Dr Dominique Birot - Dominique.Birot@ifremer.fr
Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Amenagement du Littoral - Laboratoire cotier La Tremblade.
PhD in Material Science in 1986, after a chemical engineer training. in 1989, he joined the Instrumentation Department of
IFREMER in Brest, where during 12 years he developed various new chemical sensors for in situ measurements.
Since 2001, he works to the IFREMER laboratory of La Tremblade which activities focus on coastal marine environment
Selected publications:
Daniel A., Birot D., Blain S., Tr?guer P., Leild? B. and Menut E., "A submersible flow injection analyser for the in situ
determination of nitrate and nitrite in coastal sea water", Marine Chemistry, 1995, 51, 67-77;
Floch J., Blain S., Birot D. and Tr?guer P., "In-situ determination of silicic acid in sea water based on FIA and colorimetric
dual-wavelength measurements", Analytica Chimica Acta, 1998, 377, p. 157 - 166
Aminot A., K?rouel R. and Birot D., "A flow injection fluorometric method for the determination of ammonium in fresh and
saline waters with view to in situ analyses, Water Research, 2001, Vol. 35, N° 7, p. 1777 - 1785
Scientist participants with IFREMER
Sebastien Lefebvre - lefebvre@isomer.univ-nantes.fr
Ph.D. in Marine Ecology University of Nantes (2000) prepared in CREMA laboratory (1996-2000), Agricultural Engineer (1995),
specialist in modelling of integrated aquaculture systems, works one year at ISOMER, University of Nantes, France,
and from october 2001 at-University of Caen, contracting partner with IFREMER in the present project.
Selected publications:
Lefebvre, S., Hussenot, J. and Brossard, N., 1996. Water treatment of land-based fish farm effluents by outdoor culture of
marine diatoms. J. Appl. Phycol., 8: 193-200.
Lefebvre, S., Barille, L. and Clerc, M., 2000. Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) feeding responses to a fish-farm
effluent. Aquaculture, 187: 185-198.
Lefebvre, S., Bacher, C., Meuret, A. and Hussenot, J., In press. Modelling approach of the nitrogen and
phosphorus exchanges at the sediment water interface of an intensive marine fish-pond system.
Aquaculture, 195(3-4): 279-297.
Herve Le Bris - lebris@vet-nantes.fr
Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Nantes, Laboratoire Chimiotherapie Aquacole et Environnement.
Ph.D. in biology (University of Western Brittany, Brest 1988), Professor of the Agricultural Higher Education (Agriculture
and Fisheries Ministery, France 1995),.1982-1989. Ph.D. student and postgraduate searcher in the" Biological Oceanography"
Laboratory, University of Western Brittany, Brest. 1989-now. Teacher-searcher, in the National Veterinary School of Nantes.
1990-now. Director of the "Aquaculture and Aquacultural Diseases" laboratory and pedagological unit, National Veterinary
School of Nantes. 1997-now. Director of the INRA/ENVN Joint Research Unit for "Aquacultural Chemotherapy and the
Environment" (INRA = National Institute for Agricultural Research, ENVN = National Veterinary School of Nantes)
Selected publications:
Le Bris, H.; Pouliquen, H.; Blanc, G., 1998. Sanitary control of fish farms effluents in Atlantic salt marshes.
In: Hussenot, J. (eds.); Buchet, V. (eds.); Marais maritimes et aquaculture, Actes Colloq. IFREMER,
Plouzane (France), 19: 204-212
Le Bris, H.;Pouliquen, H.;Debernardi, J.-M.;Buchet, V.;Pinault,L. 1995. Preliminary study on the
kinetics of oxytetracycline in shellfish exposed to an effluent of a land-based fish farm:
Experimental approach, Marine environmental Research,. 40: 171-180
Le Bris H., Maffart P., Bocquene G., Buchet V., Galgani F. and Blanc G., 1995. Laboratory study on the
influence of Dichlorvos on two commercial bivalves. Aquaculture, 138: 139-144
