DIVISION OF 
LEPUS 2013 Conference:
International Congress: Livelihood 2013, Sept. 2013, Mekelle, Ethiopia
Hanne Van Gaelen krijgt de ‘Prijs Ernest du Bois - eindverhandeling’E&ES > Soil and Water Management
Division of Soil and Water Management
Research topics within the Division of Soil and
Water Management encompass risk-analysis studies of heavy metals in the environment,
soil mapping and land-use, modeling transport processes of water and solutes (nutrients -
contaminants) in soils, expert systems for efficient crop water use, long-term trends in
tropical soil fertility and soil chemistry and speciation of metals and phosphorous species
in soil and water.
Research topics
 Soil fertilityR. Merckx, E. Smolders and J. Diels |
 Soil physicsJ. Diels and J. Vanderborght |
 Nutrient and carbon fluxes in terrestrial and aquatic systemsS. Bouillon, R. Merckx, E. Smolders and J. Diels |
 Water managementD. Raes |
 HydrologyG. Wyseure |
 Land evaluationS. Deckers |
 Contaminated soils and water: toxicology and environmental microbiologyE. Smolders, D. Springael and J. Vanderborght |
Contact
Division of Soil and Water Management
Landbouwinstituut Hoofdgebouw, Campus Arenberg
Kasteelpark Arenberg 20
B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee
Facilities
under construction/coming soon