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Nicolas Gratiot is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France, focusing on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans several subfields including oceanography, water science and technology, global and planetary change, ecology, and earth-surface processes.

The main topics of their work cover a variety of interrelated areas such as flood risk assessment and management, coastal and marine dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, as well as oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Gratiot has contributed to a significant number of publications in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Data in Brief
  • IRD
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers demonstrate a breadth of studies on aquatic and environmental dynamics:

  • Does eutrophication enhance greenhouse gas emissions in urbanized tropical estuaries?, 2022, Environmental Pollution
  • Monitoring discharge in a tidal river using water level observations: Application to the Saigon River, Vietnam, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Effects of hydrological regime and land use on in-stream Escherichia coli concentration in the Mekong basin, Lao PDR, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Nutrient budgets in the Saigon-Dongnai River basin: Past to future inputs from the developing Ho Chi Minh megacity (Vietnam), 2020, River Research and Applications
  • An implicit wetting-drying algorithm for the discontinuous Galerkin method: application to the Tonle Sap, Mekong River Basin, 2020, Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Gratiot has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Julien Némery
  • An Nguyen
  • Francisco Rodrigues do Amaral
  • Thierry Pellarin
  • Emilie Strady

Best Publications

  • The Amazon-influenced muddy coast of South America : a review of mud-bank-shoreline interactions

    Edward J. Anthony;Antoine Gardel;Nicolas Gratiot;Christophe Proisy

  • Seasonality of riverine macroplastic transport

    Tim van Emmerik;Emilie Strady;Emilie Strady;Emilie Strady;Thuy Chung Kieu-Le;Luan Nguyen

  • Significant contribution of the 18.6 year tidal cycle to regional coastal changes

    Nicolas Gratiot;E. J. Anthony;Antoine Gardel;Cédric Gaucherel

  • Global uncertainty analysis of suspended sediment monitoring using turbidimeter in a small mountainous river catchment

    Oldrich Navratil;Michel Esteves;C. Legout;Nicolas Gratiot

  • Nutrient dynamics and eutrophication assessment in the tropical river system of Saigon - Dongnai (southern Vietnam).

    Tuyet T.N. Nguyen;Tuyet T.N. Nguyen;Julien Némery;Julien Némery;Nicolas Gratiot;Nicolas Gratiot;Emilie Strady;Emilie Strady

  • Drivers of erosion and suspended sediment transport in three headwater catchments of the Mexican Central Highlands

    Clément Duvert;Nicolas Gratiot;Olivier Evrard;Oldrich Navratil

  • Mud bank colonization by opportunistic mangroves : A case study from French Guiana using lidar data

    Christophe Proisy;Nicolas Gratiot;Edward J. Anthony;Antoine Gardel

  • Coastal engineering and large-scale mangrove destruction in Guyana, South America: Averting an environmental catastrophe in the making

    Edward J. Anthony;Nicolas Gratiot

  • Mangroves and shoreline erosion in the Mekong River delta, Viet Nam

    Manon Besset;Nicolas Gratiot;Edward J. Anthony;Edward J. Anthony;Frédéric Bouchette

  • Trade-wind waves and mud dynamics on the French Guiana coast, South America: input from ERA-40 wave data and field investigations

    Nicolas Gratiot;Antoine Gardel;Edward J. Anthony

  • Erosion of the coastal Mekong delta: Assessing natural against man induced processes

    Patrick Marchesiello;Nguyet Minh Nguyen;Nicolas Gratiot;Nicolas Gratiot;Hubert Loisel

  • Tracing sediment sources in a tropical highland catchment of central Mexico by using conventional and alternative fingerprinting methods

    Olivier Evrard;Jérôme Poulenard;Julien Némery;Sophie Ayrault

  • Sediment dynamics during the rainy season in tropical highland catchments of central Mexico using fallout radionuclides

    Olivier Evrard;Julien Némery;Nicolas Gratiot;Clément Duvert

  • A Satellite Image–Based Method for Estimating Rates of Mud Bank Migration, French Guiana, South America

    Antoine Gardel;Nicolas Gratiot

  • Nearshore intertidal topography and topographic-forcing mechanisms of an Amazon-derived mud bank in French Guiana

    Edward J. Anthony;Franck Dolique;Antoine Gardel;Nicolas Gratiot

  • An experimental investigation of floc characteristics in a diffusive turbulent flow

    N. Gratiot;A. J. Manning

  • Flood-related risks in Ho Chi Minh City and ways of mitigation

    Georges Vachaud;Fanny Quertamp;Thi San Ha Phan;Tien Dung Tran Ngoc

  • Towards prediction of suspended sediment yield from peak discharge in small erodible mountainous catchments (0.45–22 km2) of France, Mexico and Spain

    C. Duvert;G. Nord;Nicolas Gratiot;O. Navratil

  • Fluvial sediment supply, mud banks, cheniers and the morphodynamics of the coast of South America between the Amazon and Orinoco river mouths

    Edward J. Anthony;Antoine Gardel;Antoine Gardel;Nicolas Gratiot

  • Variability of the particle size of suspended sediment during highly concentrated flood events in a small mountainous catchment

    Thomas Grangeon;Cédric Legout;Michel Esteves;Nicolas Gratiot

  • Geomorphic evolution of a coastal mudflat under oceanic influences: an example from the dynamic shoreline of French Guiana

    Jean Pierre Lefebvre;Franck Dolique;Nicolas Gratiot

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Anthony
Edward J. Anthony Aix-Marseille University
Michel Esteves
Michel Esteves Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Eric Deleersnijder
Eric Deleersnijder Université Catholique de Louvain
Andrew J. Manning
Andrew J. Manning Plymouth University
Olivier Evrard
Olivier Evrard University of Paris-Saclay
Olivier Ribolzi
Olivier Ribolzi Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Josette Garnier
Josette Garnier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jérôme Poulenard
Jérôme Poulenard Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Jonathan B. Laronne
Jonathan B. Laronne Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Eric Blanchart
Eric Blanchart University of Montpellier

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