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Louis R., Saint-Jean O., Zech Y., Verbanck M.A., Soares-Frazão S., Foucault H., Charlier J.-E., Joseph A., Louis S., Gonomy N. (2025) - Résilience aux inondations récurrentes de la ville de Léogâne (Haïti) : Implication communautaire, défiance institutionnelle et stratégies de gestion préventive des risques liés aux crues. Actes du séminaire "Faire la paix avec l'eau", SHF 2025, 6p.

Bogaert, P., Diélie, G., Briffault, A., de Saint-Hubert, B., & Verbanck, M. A. (2023). Identifying proxies and mapping heavy metals concentrations in city road dusts: A case study in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Heliyon, 9(2), e13312.

Guéret, S., Diélie, G., Bastin, F., Segato, T., Verbanck, M.A., & D’Ans, P. (2019). Influence de la substitution d’argile par des déchets sédimentaires dans des briques en terre crue comprimée (BTCC) sur la résistance à l’abrasion. Matériaux & Techniques, 107(3), 302.

Brion, N., Carbonnel, V., Claeys, P., Elskens, M., & Verbanck, M. A. (2019). Recommandations pour une gestion durable des eaux urbaines de la Senne et du Canal en Région bruxelloise. Recueil des recommandations politiques dans le cadre du programme Prospective Research. Innoviris.

Brion, N., Carbonnel, V., Verbanck, M. A., Elskens, M., & Claeys, P. (2018). Influence of discharge and temperature on the transport of tracer pollutants along an urban river (Zenne, Belgium). In Integrative Sciences Rivers: Integrative sciences and sustainable development of rivers. GRAIE, 12B24-115BRI.

De Ville, N., Hong Minh Le, Ludovic Schmidt, and M. A. Verbanck (2017). "Data-mining analysis of in-sewer infiltration patterns: seasonal characteristics of clear water seepage into Brussels main sewers." Urban Water Journal 14, no. 10 : 1090-1096.

Carbonnel, V., Brion, N., Elskens, M., Claeys, P., & Verbanck, M. A. (2017). Hydrological functioning and water balance in an artificially modified and complex hydrographic network. In the EGU General Assembly 2017.

De Ville, N., & Verbanck, M.A. (2017). Water management in Brussels: knowledge gained from the long time data series of the Flowbru regional telemetry system. Brussels Studies. La revue scientifique pour les recherches sur Bruxelles, 2017/5/22.

de Ville N., Petrovic D., Schneider J. & Verbanck M.A. (2017) UDT Probe: an innovative method for flow velocity monitoring, Proceedings of HydroSenSoft - International Symposium and Exhibition on Hydro-Environment Sensors and Software, 1-3 March 2017, Madrid, Spain.

Verbanck M.A., de Ville N. & Petrovic D. (2016) Patent: Method for determination of flow speed of a liquid in a free-surface flow, European Patent Application No. EP 16 19 3620.

de Ville N., Petrovic D., Schneider J. & Verbanck M.A. (2016) Temperature-dependent bias of a pressure transducer exposed to Bernoulli hydrodynamic effect opens up new perspectives for the continuous monitoring of flow velocity in free-surface flows, Flow Measurement and Instrumentation (submitted).

Petrovic D., Marescaux A., Vanderborght J-P. & Verbanck M.A. (2016) Densitometric probe based on non-differential pressure: a monitoring technique for high suspended sediment concentrations, Proceedings of International Symposium on River Sedimentation, Wieprecht et al. (Eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-02945-3.

Louis, S., Gonomy, N., de Ville, N., & Verbanck, M. A. (2016). Hydraulic analysis of an irrigation headworks complex in the Artibonite department (Haïti). In Sustainable Hydraulics in the Era of Global Change: Proceedings of the 4th IAHR Europe Congress (Liège, Belgium, 27-29 July 2016) (p. 124). CRC Press.

Brion N., Verbanck M. A., Bauwens W., Elskens M., Chen M., & Pierre Servais P. (2015) Assessing the impacts of wastewater treatment implementation on the water quality of a small urban river over the past 40 years, Environ Sci Pollut Res (2015) 22, 12720 - 12736, doi 10.1007/s11356-015-4493-8

Ren Q-Y., Hermand J-P., Randall J. & Verbanck M. A. (Université libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM), Brehmer P. (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, SENEGAL). First Trial of Multi-Wavelength Vector Sensor: Sediment Geoacoustic Properties Obtained from Vessel Noise Off Senegal. Presented at IEEE/OES Acoustics in Underwater Geosciences Symposium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2015.

Garcia-Armisen T., Inceoglu O., Ouattara N. K., Anzil A., Verbanck M. A., Brion N. & Servais P. (2014) Seasonal variations and resilience of bacterial communities in a sewage polluted urban river, PloS one, 9(3), e92579.

Blavier J., Verbanck M.A., Craddock F., Liégeois S., Latinis D., Gargouri L., Guillermo Flores Rua C., Debaste F., Haut B. (2014) Investigation of riverbed filtration systems on the Parapeti river, Bolivia, Journal of Water Process Engineering, 1, 27-36.

Le H.M., Petrovic D. & Verbanck M.A. (2014) The semi-sewer river: hydraulic backwater effects and CSO reverse flows in Central Brussels now shown to reduce deoxygenation impact further downstream, Water Science & Technology, 69, 903-908, doi: 10.2166/wst.2013.800.

Petrovic D., Vulpe I., Vanderborght J-P. & Verbanck M. A. (2014) Operational river velocity surveillance at whole reach-scale by implementing time-of-arrival algorithms on upstream-downstream conductivity signals, River Flow 2014 - Schleiss et al.(Eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-02674-2, 1987- 1994.

de Ville N., Le H.M. & Verbanck M.A. (2014) Data-mining analysis of in-sewer infiltration patterns: seasonal characteristics of clear water seepage into Brussels main sewers, SHF-ASTEE conference "Optimization of the sewerage systems for the protection of receiving water bodies", Bordeaux, France 19-20 March 2014.

Petrovic D., Le H.M., de Ville N., Cornet E. & Verbanck M.A. (2013) A water level gradient method for the rapid tuning of the stage-to-discharge relationship in a mild-slope river, La Houille Blanche, 6/2013, 42-47, doi: 10.1051/lhb/2013049.

Huybrechts N., Zhang Y.F. & Verbanck M.A. (2013) Coupled estimation of the energy slope and associated sand-silt transport during high stream power events in alluvial rivers, IJSR 28(1), 58-65.

de Ville N., Petrovic D. & Verbanck M.A. (2013) On the role of fine-sand dune dynamics in controlling water depth changes in rio Parapeti, Serrania Borebigua (Southern sub-Andean zone of Bolivia), In: Marine and River Dune Dynamics (edited by V. Van Lancker & T. Garlan), VLIZ Spec Publ 65, 73-80.

Le H.M., Petrovic D. & Verbanck M.A. (2013) Respiration inhibition at cold temperatures in a low-discharge river under rehabilitation would help in the future integrated urban water management plan, Proc 3rd IWA BENELUX Young Water Professionals Regional Conference, Belval, Luxemburg 2-4 Oct 2013.

Verbanck M.A., Petrovic D. & Vanderborght J.P. (2013) Patent Method for monitoring suspended matter loads at high concentrations (2011) European Patent Application No. EP 11 16 1020; (2012) International Patent Application No. WO 2012/120122.

Zhang YuanFeng, Shen Guanqing, Verbanck M.A. (2012) Bed form discriminant method for the Lower Yellow River. Advances in Water Science / Shui Ke Xue Jin Zhan (issn 1001-6791), in Chinese, 23(1), 46-52.

Petrovic D., Brion N., Magnier A., Elskens M., and Verbanck M.A. (2012) Effect of intense rainfall events on metallic and particulate pollutant fluxes in a small urban watercourse, Proc 9th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling, Belgrade, Serbia, 3-6 September 2012, ISBN 978-86-7518-156-9.

Brion N., Servais P., Bauwens W. and Verbanck M.A. (2012) Past and present chemical and microbiological quality of the Zenne River. Impact of the Brussels sewage management, Troubled Waters, Fifth Crosstalk publication, VUB Press, 223-236.

El Mallahi A., Detavernier A., Yourassowsky C., Dubois F. (2012) Automated 3D detection and classification of Giardia lamblia cysts using digital holographic microscopy with partially coherent source. Proc. of SPIE Photonics Conference, Brussels, 8p.

Petrovic D., Gailliez S., Philippin J., Van Der Schrick D. & Verbanck M.A. (2011) Sediment delivery rates by the 100 Km² upstream watershed of river Senne during the severe flood events of November 2010 and January 2011. Poster displayed at: ScaldWIN Transnational Integrated Water Management, InterReg Seminar 19 May 2011, Antwerp.

Huybrechts N, Luong G.V., Zhang Y.F., Villaret C. & Verbanck M.A. (2011) Dynamic routing of flow resistance and alluvial bed form changes from the lower to the upper regime. ASCE J Hydr Eng, 137 (9), 932–944.

Huybrechts N, Luong G.V., Zhang Y.F. & Verbanck M.A. (2011) Observations of canonical flow resistance in fast-flowing sand-bed rivers. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 49:5, 611-616.

Huybrechts N., Zhang Y.F., & Verbanck M.A. (2011) A new closure methodology for 1D fully coupled models of mobile-bed alluvial hydraulics: application to silt transport in the Lower Yellow River. International Journal of Sediment Research, 26 (1), 36-49.

Huybrechts N, Zhang Y.F. & Verbanck M.A. (2011) Dynamic computation of the energy slope and associated sand-silt transport during high stream power events in alluvial rivers, River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM2011, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, 10p.

El Mallahi A, Minetti C, Dubois F, Yourassowsky C, Detavernier A, Ma Jingxing and Verbanck M.A. (2011) Automated 3D detection of Giardia lamblia cysts as an assessment of potential drinking-water resources using DHM with partially coherent source. Bio-Optics: Design & Application, Monterey Conference, California, USA, April 4-6 2011.

El Mallahi A, Detavernier A, Yourassowsky C, Verbanck M.A. and Dubois F. (2011) Détection 3D automatisée de kystes de Giardia lamblia en vue de l’évaluation des ressources d’eau potable en utilisant la microscopie holographique digitale avec source partiellement cohérente. CMOI 2011 Conference : 12ième Colloque international francophone sur les méthodes et techniques optiques pour l’industrie. Lille, France, 21-25 Novembre 2011.

P. Negrel, E. Petelet-Giraudi, G. Klaveri, A. Marsman, K. Jonesi, P. Middeldorp, N. Baran, A. Brenot, T. G. andP. Grathwohl, J.-P. Hermand, E. Kalbus, S. Meijer, R. Millot, C. Moeckel, F. Reinstorf, S. Roy, M. Schirmer, C. Schmidt, D. Steidle, B. van Os, and M.A. Verbanck, “Flux – mass transfer in river-sediment-soil-groundwater systems,” in Advanced Tools and Models to Improve River Basin Management in Europe in the Context of Climate Change (AquaTerra) (book chapter) (J. B. Michael Finkel and P. Grathwohl, eds.), chapter 4, pp. 22–32, London UK: IWA Publishing, 2010.

Zhang Yuanfeng, Wu Baosheng & Verbanck M.A. (2009) Bedform-dependent sediment transport model applied to silt transfer rates in the Lower Yellow River. Journal of Sediment Research (in Chinese), ISSN 0468-155X, 2009 (6), pp. 48-53.

Herman Ch., Haut B., Vanderborght J.-P., Verbanck M.A. (2009) Optimisation de cycles d’adsorption – désorption de la vapeur d’eau atmosphérique pour la production en continu d’eau liquide. Récents progrès en génie des procédés, SFGP, 6p.

Zhang Y.F., Josse F, Verbanck M.A. (2009) Research and application of composite roughness in sewer flow,4th International Yellow River Forum on Ecological Civilization and River Ethics,2009 (10), 9p.

Huybrechts, N., Luong, G.V., Zhang, Y.F., and Verbanck, M.A. (2009) Dynamic computation of the energy slope and associated silt-sand transport in alluvial rivers. In: Processes – Data – Models – Future Scenarios: Scientific Fundamentals for River Basin Management, final Aquaterra conference, Tübingen (poster session).

Verbanck M.A. (2008) An update on wastewater treatment infrastructure in Belgium. IWA Yearbook 2008, pp. 36-38.

Verbanck M.A. (2008) How fast can a river flow over alluvium? Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 46, Extra Issue 1, pp. 61–71.

Huybrechts N., Luong G.V., Zhang Yuanfeng, Verbanck M.A. (2008) Calcul des flux particulaires en rivière sur base de la dynamique des tourbillons en aval des dunes et de la résistance alluviale qui en découle. La Houille Blanche, N°5 (Octobre 2008), 79-85.

Willame R, Thys I, Jacquet V, Verbanck MA, Cauchie HM, Hoffmann L (2008) Environmental variables involved in the development of bloom-forming cyanobacteria in a meso-to-eutrophic reservoir. Algological Studies, Vol. 126 (1), pp. 229-249.

Luong G.V., Verbanck M.A. (2008) Headloss diagram for sand-channel streams experiencing severe riverbed deformation. In: Altinakar, Kokpinar, Aydin, Cokgor & Kirkgoz (Eds) RiverFlow 2008, Cesme, Turkey, pp. 377-384.

Huybrechts N., Zhang Y.F., Verbanck M.A. (2008) Fully-coupled 1D model of mobile-bed alluvial hydraulics for the study of the effects of silt-removal flushes performed annually in the Lower Yellow River. In: Altinakar, Kokpinar, Aydin, Cokgor & Kirkgoz (Eds) RiverFlow 2008, Cesme, Turkey, pp. 1055-1063.

Luong G.V., Verbanck M.A. & Vollmer S. (2008) Suspended-load and wash-load events contributing to the export of particulate matter at the outlet of non-tidal Elbe 1995-2006. Proc Unesco-ISI Workshop - Erosion, Transport and Deposition of Sediments, Bern, Switzerland, 28-30 April 2008 (poster session).

Le Xuan Tuan, Buess-Herman C., Hurwitz. H.D. (2008) Absorption equilibrium and permselectivity of cation exchange membranes in sulfuric acid, sodium chloride and nickel sulfate media. J Membrane Science, Vol 323 (2), pp. 288-298.

Luong G.V., Verbanck MA. (2008) Froude number conditions associated with full development of 2D bedforms in flumes. Dohmen-Janssen & Hulscher (Eds) River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM2007, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 1009-1014.

Huybrechts N., Verbanck MA. (2008) A bed-material load criterion to delineate between ripples and dunes forming in riverbeds. Dohmen-Janssen & Hulscher (Eds) River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM2007, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp.619-626.

Verbanck MA., Larcy A., Huybrechts N., Vanderborght J-P. (2007) Suction-vortex resuspension dynamics applied to the computation of fine-particle river fluxes. Westrich B & Förstner U (Eds) Sediment dynamics and pollutant mobility in rivers: interdisciplinary approach. Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp. 157-169.

Arndt S., Vanderborght J-P., Regnier P. (2007) Diatom growth response to physical forcing in a macrotidal estuary: Coupling hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and biogeochemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 112 (C5): 10,1029.

Vanderborght J-P., Folmer I.M., Aguilera D.R., Uhrenholdt T., Regnier P. (2007). Reactive-transport modelling of a river-estuarine-coastal zone system: application to the Scheldt estuary. Marine Chemistry , 106, 92-110.

Gazeau F., Middelburg J.J., Loijens M., Vanderborght J-P., Pizay M.-D., Gattuso J.-P. (2007) Planktonic primary production in estuaries: comparison of C-14, O-2 and O-18 methods. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 46 (1): 95-106.

Zhang Yuanfeng, Verbanck MA. (2007) Effective settling velocity of silt-sized particles transported in suspension in the Lower Yellow River. Proc Intercoh Conference, Brest, Book of abstracts, Sept 2007, pp. 61-62.

Huybrechts N. , Verbanck MA. (2007) Sediment transport routing in lower- and upper-alluvial regime with an approach based on Rossiter modes resonance concepts. Proc 10th ISRS Moscow, Vol III, pp. 159-167.

Le Xuan Tuan, Verbanck MA., Buess-Herman C., Hurwitz. H.D. (2006) Properties of CMV cation exchange membranes in sulfuric acid media. J Membrane Science ,Vol 284 (1-2), pp. 67-78.

Hermand J-P, Perichon L, Verbanck M.A. (2006) Characterization of sediment dynamics in an estuary environment using acoustic techniques, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 120, p. 3356: 5aUW10, Nov. 2006.

Huybrechts N. , Verbanck MA. (2006) Fully-coupled 1D model of mobile-bed alluvial hydraulics with a closure drawn from Rossiter modes resonance concepts. 8th Belgian National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Mons.

Desmit X., Vanderborght J.-P., Regnier P., Wollast R. (2005). Control of phytoplankton production by physical forcing in a strongly tidal, well-mixed estuary. Biogeosciences, 2, 205-218.

Ashley R.M., Bertrand-Krajewski J.-L., Hvitved-Jacobsen T., Verbanck M.A. editors. (2004) Solids in sewers. IWA Publishing, Scientific & Technical Report No 14, May 2004, ISBN 1-90-022291-4, 340p.

Verbanck M.A. (2004a) Sand transport at high stream power : towards a new generation of 1D river models. Proc 9th Intnl Symp River Sedimentation, Yichang, China, October 2004 (Ying Tan, Editor), Invited paper, ISBN 7-302-09684-8, Tsinghua University Press, pp. 307-318.

Verbanck M.A. (2004b) Sediment-laden flows over fully-developed bedforms : first and second harmonics in a shallow, pseudo-2D turbulence environment. Uijttewaal W.S.J. & Jirka G.H. (Eds) Shallow Flows, Taylor & Francis UK, pp. 491-496.

Larcy A., Vanderborght J.P. and Verbanck M.A. (2004) Application of vortex-drag concepts to the assessment of suspended sediment budgets in the Scheldt estuary. Remote sensing & sediment transport. Mumm Workshop, Brussels, 18 Oct 2004 (poster session).

Roevros N., Wauthier W., Vanderborght J.P., Loijens M. and Wollast R. (2004) Des abeilles dans la ville. Abeilles & Cie, Revue du CARI (Centre Apicole de Recherche et d’Information), 103, 18-21.

Folmer I.M., Aguilera D., Desmit X., Dorge J., Petersen O.S., Vanderborght J.P., Wollast R. and Regnier P. (2003) A dynamically nested grid reactive-transport model for land-ocean interaction studies. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, pp.10181-10182.

Tianlin MA and Verbanck M.A. (2003). The minimum slope for preventing accumulation of solids in newly designed sewers: comparison of existing criteria and perspectives of future engineering trends. Tribune de l'Eau, No 624/4, juillet- aout 2003, pp. 50-59.

Vanderborght J.P., Wollast R., Loijens M. and Regnier P. (2002). Application of a transport-reaction model to the estimation of biogases fluxes in the Scheldt estuary. Biogeochemistry, 1-2, 207-237.

Verbanck M.A., Laaji A., Niyonzima A. (2002) Computing river suspended load over bedforms in the lower, transition and upper hydraulic regime. In: River Flow 2002 (Edited by D. Bousmar & Y. Zech), Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, ISBN 90-5809-6, pp. 625-632.

Worsfold P.J., Achterberg E.P., Bowie A.R., Cannizzaro V., Charles S., Costa J.M., Dubois F., Pereiro R., San Vicente B., Sanz-Medel A., Vandeloise R., Vander Donckt E., Wollast P. and Yunus S. (2002) Integrated luminometer for the determination of trace metals in seawater using fluorescence, phosphorescence and chemiluminescence detection. Journal of Automated Methods & Management in Chemistry 24, 41-47.

Verbanck M. (2002) Transition regimes and their relevance in sediment transport analysis. In: Sedimentation and Sediment Transport: At the crossroads of physics and engineering, Monte Verita Symposium, Sept 1-6, 2002, Abstracts Volume, pp. 66-67.

Desmit X. (2002) Light penetration and gross primary production in strong tidal marine systems. International Bangor Conference An appreciation of 50 years of the study of oceans and lakes” (Poster session), Bangor, UK, March 2002.

Desmit X., Vanderborght J.P. and Harlay J. (2002) Particulate matter, light penetration and primary production in the Scheldt estuary. ECSA Local Meeting, Ecological structures and functions in the Scheldt Estuary: from past to future (Invited lecture and Poster Session), Antwerp, Belgium, October 7-10, 2002.

Desmit X. and Vanderborght J.P. (2002). Interpretation of in situ and laboratory¹⁴C-incorporations in water samples from the Scheldt. Poster presented at the ESCA Local Meeting: ‘Ecological structures and functions in the Scheldt estuary: from past to future’, 7-10 October 2002, Antwerp, Belgium.

Wollast R., Vanderborght J.-P., Loijens M., Verbanck M.A. and Regnier P. (2001) Utilisation d'un modèle couplé hydrodynamique-biogéochimique en tant qu'instrument de gestion de la qualité des eaux d'un estuaire. Ann. Chim. Sci. Mat., 2001, 26, pp. S43-S52.

Verbanck M.A. (2000) Computing near-bed solids transport in sewers and similar sediment-carrying open-channel flows. Invited paper to Journal of Urban Water, 2, (4), pp. 277-284, Special issue on sewer processes.

Pineros Garcet J., Tilmant A., Bellefontaine L., Guns A. and Vanclooster M. (2000) Scenario analysis supporting fertilizer management strategies in the agricultural region of the Brusselean aquifer (Belgium). Proceedings of the International Symposium 'Agricultural effects on ground and surface waters', Wageningen, NL, October 2000, 10p.

Versaen M. and Verbanck M.A. (2000) Phosphorus species and levels in a lake and its tributaries: a comparison. Paris 2000 Conference, 1st World Congress of the International Water Association, Abstract Volume, 3p.

Fally S. (1999) "La dégradation des monuments historiques à Bruxelles." In: La science et la ville, ULB - Faculté des Sciences, Ed. Fondation Lucia de Broukere D-1997-5754/01, pp.1-32.

Verbanck M., Achiaou M.A., Bajura D. (1999), "Accounting for suspended-material heterogeneity in the computation of fluvial sediment transport capacity." In River sedimentation: theory and applications (edited by A.W. Jayawardena, Balkema, J.H.W. Lee & Z.Y. Wang), Rotterdam, ISBN 90 5809 034 5, pp. 33-38.

Ashley R.M., Verbanck M. (1998), "Physical processes in sewers. 'Water management in conurbations'", Proceedings of the Bottrop Congress, Germany, pp. 26-47.

Smitz J., Everbercq E., Deliege J.F., Descy J.P., Wollast R., Vanderborght J.P., Salleron J.L. & Dumortier G. (1998) - "Application du modèle PEGASE au bassin Rhin-Meuse (France)" - Man and river system, Les systèmes fluviaux anthropisés, Paris, 25-27 mars 1998.

Regnier, P., A. Mouchet, F. Ronday and R. Wollast. (1998), "A model for prediction of long term fluxes in strong tidal estuaries", Continental Shelf Research, 18, 1543-1571.

Taleb A., Verbanck M. (1998), "Dissolved loads of rivers: from discrete sets of discharge and concentration observations to annual export rates", International Conference Man and River Systems: River Systems at the Basin Scale (Poster session), Paris, 25-27 March 1998.

Verbanck M., Taleb A. (1998), "Consistency of methods used to compute budgets of nutrients exported from agricultural watersheds", ECOLOGIA EUROPAEA, Strasbourg, Abstracts volume, pp. 158-161.

Smitz J., Everbecq E., Deliège J.-F., Descy J.-P., Wollast R. and Vanderborght J.-P. (1997). PEGASE, une méthodologie et un outil de simulation prévisionnelle pour la gestion de la qualité des eaux de surface. Tribune de l'Eau, 588, 73-82.

Regnier P., Wollast R., Steefel C.I. (1997), "Long-term fluxes of reactive species in macrotidal estuaries. Estimates from a fully transient, multi component reaction-transport model" Mar. Chem., vol.58, n°1-2, pp.127-145.

Ashley R.M., Verbanck M. (1996), "Mechanics of sewer sediment erosion and transport", Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 34, No 6, pp. 753-769. Invited paper (JHR special issue on urban storm drainage).

Ashley R.M., Verbanck M., Bertrand-Krajewski J.L., Hvitved-Jacobsen T., Nalluri C., Perrusquia G., P (1996), "Solids in sewers : the state-of-the-art", In: Sieker F. & Verworn H.-R. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Urban Storm Drainage, Hannover, Germany, pp. 1771-1776.

Leduc D., Fally S., De Vuyst P., Wollast R. and Yernault J-C. (1996), "Acute Exposure to realistic Acid Fog: Effects on Respiratory Function and Airway Responsiveness in Asthmatics". Environmental Research, 71, 89-98.

Regnier P., Mouchet A., Ronday F.and Wollast R. (1996), "On the estimation of estuarine contaminant fluxes". Proceeding of the North Sea Quality Status Report 1993, Ebeltoft 1994. J. Andersen, K. Henning and U. Nielsen eds. Ministry of Environment and Energy, Danish Environmental Agency, Copenhague. pp. 41-45.

Taleb A., Verbanck M., Chahboun S., Wollast R. (1996), "Anthropogenic nitrate load in the upper part of the Senne river watershed (Belgium)", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Pollution and Impact Assessment, Mohammadia, Maroc, 9-11 October 1996, pp. 395-409.

Verbanck M. (1996), "Assessment of sediment behaviour in a cunette-shaped sewer section", Water Science & Technology, Vol. 33, No 9, pp. 49-60.

Wollast R., Bourge I. and Frankignoulle M. (1996), "Atmospheric CO2 Fluxes in Highly disturbed estuary" Limnology and Oceanog., 41 (2), 365-369.

Fally S. et al (1995), "La pollution atmosphérique, ses effets et ses coûts en région de Bruxelles-Capitale", BRES, Dossier n°25, édition bilingue, IRIS Ed., 67 p.

Vander Donckt E., Camerman B., Herne R., Vandeloise R., Jamin G., Vanderborght J-P, Wollast P., Le Bris N., Birot D., Jaffrezic N., Druguet S. and Grisel A. (1995), "Development of an autonomous instrumentation for primary production measurement in coastal area" In: Second Mast days and EUROMAR Market Project Reports, CEE Eds.,Volume 2, pp. 847-861.

Verbanck M. (1995), "Variabilité des charges solides en suspension à l'exutoire des réseaux de collecte.", In: Fonctionnement du traitement des eaux usées en cas de fortes variations de débit, Séminaire comité belge IAWQ, Liège, 31 mai 1995, pp. I-1 I-12.

Verbanck M. (1995), "Capturing and releasing settleable solids - the significance of dense undercurrents in combined sewer flows" Water Science and Technology, Vol. 31, No 7, pp. 85-93.

Verbanck M., Ashley R.M., Bachoc A. (1994), "International workshop on origin, occurrence and behaviour of sediments in sewer systems: summary of conclusions" Water Research, Vol. 28, No 1, pp. 187-194.

Verbanck M., Wollast P. and Vanderborght J-P (1994), "Contribution des épisodes pluvio-orageux à la charge polluante annuelle évacuée par le réseau unitaire Maelbeek-Emissaire de Bruxelles" La Houille Blanche, No 1/2, pp. 41-50.

Wollast R. and Vanderborght J-P (1994), "Aquatic carbonate systems: chemical processes in natural waters and global cycles" In: Bodiglio, G. and W. Stumm, eds. "Chemistry of Aquatic Systems: local and global perspectives". Chemical and Environmental Sciences, vol. 5. Kluwer Acad. Pub. 47-71.

Verbanck M.(1993), "A new method for the identification of infiltration waters in sanitary flows" Water Science and Technology, Vol. 27, No 12, pp. 227-230.

Verbanck M. (1993), "Identification of the depth-dependent transportation of particulate solids in dry-weather sewage flows" In: Marsalek, J. and H.C.Torno, Eds., Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Urban Storm Drainage, Niagara Falls, Canada, pp. 742- 747.

Verbanck M. (1993), "The significance of solids in urban stormwater pollution: outline of recent research efforts in Europe" In: Tassin, B. and D. Thévenot, Eds., Rejets urbains par temps de pluie : pollutions et nuisances. Presses des Ponts et Chaussées, ISBN 2-85978-193- 5, pp. 75-77.

Wollast R. and Regnier P. (1993), "Distribution and evolution of trace metals in suspended matter of the Scheldt estuary". Marine Chemistry, 43, pp. 3-19.

Loijens M. and Wollast R. (1992), "In-situ incorporation experiments of radioactive trace metals". Water Pollution Res. Rep. 28, pp. 309-320.

Verbanck M. (1992), "Aperçus du comportement des sédiments en collecteur d'assainissement unitaire. In: Transport de sédiments" Journée d'étude CNBPHI-FNRS, K.U.Leuven, 3 mars 1992, pp. 14-21.

Verbanck M. (1992), "Origin, occurrence and behaviour of sediments in sewer systems" ISBN 0-08-042185-7, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, 234p.

Verbanck M. (1992), "Field investigations on sediment occurrence and behaviour in Brussels combined sewers" Water Science and Technology, Vol. 25, No 8, pp. 71-82.

Verbanck M., Vanderborght J-P, Wollast P., Steinhauer M. and Wollast R. (1991), "Charges polluantes par temps sec et par temps de pluie : exemple du réseau unitaire Maelbeek-Emissaire de Bruxelles" In: Les fluctuations de débit dans les réseaux de collecte unitaire, leur mesure et leur incidence sur le rendement de l'épuration, Séminaire comité belge IAWQ, Bruxelles, 22 mai 1991, pp. 1-14.

Wollast R. (1991), "Le cycle de l'eau et ses perturbations" L'Eau. Faculté des Sciences, ULB. Fondation Lucia de Brouckere pour la diffusion des sciences.

Wollast R. (1991), "Pluralité des sciences de l'environnement" La Revue Nouvelle, n 10, pp. 62- 65.

Wollast R. (1991), "Le cycle du carbone et ses perturbations par l'homme" In : La Terre : trop humaine planète ? Les Cahiers Marxistes, pp. 50-60.

Dumortier P., Fally S., Leduc D. and Wollast R. (1991) "Sulphate aerosols in urban air." Proc. of the IVth International Conference on Environmental Lung Disease, 25-28 sept., pp.22.

Verbanck M., Vanderborght J.P., Wollast P. (1990) "Size distributions of suspended particles in combined sewers during dry- and wet-weather." In Iwasa Y. & Sueishi T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Intnl. Conf. on Urban Storm Drainage, Osaka, Japan, pp. 891-896.

Verbanck M. (1990) "Sewer sediment and its relation with the quality characteristics of combined sewer flows." Water Science & Technology, Vol. 22, No. 10/11, pp. 247-257.

Wollast R. (1990), "Physico-Chemical Models of Marine Sediments" Proceedings of the Int. Seminar on the Environmental Aspects of Dredging Activities, Nantes, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1. 1989. C. Alzieu and B. Gallenne eds, 191-204.

Wollast R. and Loijens M. (1990)," Rate of transfer of trace elements from the dissolved to the particulate phase" Water Pollution Res. Rep. 20, pp.453-461.

Wollast R. (1990), "L'Environnement Européen à l'horizon 2030 : Conséquences de quelques scénarios de développement" Environnement et société, n°6, FUL-Arlon.

Vanderborght, J. P. & Wollast, P. (1990). Continuous monitoring of wastewater composition in sewers and stormwater overflows. Water Science & Technology, 22 (10-11), 271-275.

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