The Professor Benoit Sarrazin

Benoit Sarrazin
Associate Professor, Dr in Environmental Sciences

Expertise
AgroEnvironment, Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Research Unit
Agroecology and environment

Keywords

Evaluation, indicators, landscape, hydro system, water, transfer, agricultural practices, pesticides, landscape ecology, agro-piscicultural system, GIS.

Ongoing research projects or lately completed

• Etangs de l’Isère n°2 2024-2026 project, in the frame of the Isère Departmental Council’s call for biodiversity 2024 projects (Research and Development priority).
• CaSDo project: Statistical mapping of Dombes soils. IGCS programme (Inventory for Soil Management and Conservation) funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty and co-funded by the Communauté de Communes de la Dombes and the Agence de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse.
• CLEAR project: Collaborative Landscape planning for Enhanced Agrobiodiversity and Resilience. Key words : Agroecosystem services, collaborative practices, indicators, landscape, agri-environmental policies.
  Funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) as part of the Sus-Crop ERA NET call for projects.
• PSE Dombes project: scientific monitoring of the PSE (Payments for Environmental Services) programme in Dombes from 2022 to 2026. The objective of the programme is to preserve water resources: quantitative aspects (adaptation of agri-fish farming systems to climate change) and qualitative aspects (mitigation of diffuse pollution by pesticides). Financed by the Communauté de Communes de la Dombes and the Agence de l’eau Rhône-Méditerranée-Corse.

Teaching activities

• Teaching provided from L3 to MII level in the form of lectures, tutorials, case studies and field trips/studies.
• Data science: spatial analysis and cartography GIS (Geographic Information System), tools, methods, data, applications.
• Agronomy and cropping systems: crop protection, uses and fate of pesticides, challenges and tools of digital agriculture.
• Agri-environment and resource management: water management on the scale of agricultural catchment areas, soil erosion, diffuse transfers, diagnostic tools, digital tools and spatialised indicators for assessing the ecological functions and services of the landscape.

Professional experience and studies

• Since 2013: ISARA teacher-researcher in the AGE Agroecology and Environment research unit.
• 2004 to 2012: Research Engineer at ISARA
  Contributions to numerous applied research projects, expert appraisals and agri-environmental assessments.
  Development of educational content in data science and GIS, agronomy, agri-environment, resource management.
• 2012: PhD – Grenoble INP. Spatial characterisation of surface runoff in rural landscapes to provide knowledge to improve spatial transfer modelling tools.
• 2006: Master II in Water and the Environment, Institut Agro Montpellier.
• 2002: ISARA engineering diploma.