Laurence Maurice

Directrice de Recherche IRD

Directrice de Recherches IRD

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Equipe G3 Hydrogéochimiste et spécialisée en géochimie isotopique, je travaille à l'interface Environnement / Santé et Société. J'ai été nommée conseillère scientifique auprès de Valérie Verdier, PDG de l'IRD, pour le défi "Géoressources et Durabilité" (https://www.ird.fr/la-communaute-de-savoirs-georessources-et-durabilite-geod). Spécialiste des contaminants métalliques, des impacts environnementaux et expositions humaines liés aux activités extractives (minières et pétrolières) et plus récemment agricoles, je travaille en inter- et transdisciplinarité sur l'analyse des vulnérabilités environnementales et sociales dans des territoires impactés et participe à la co-construction de nouveaux éléments de réponse et de voies de changement avec les populations locales mais également les acteurs publics en charge de la gestion et de la prévention des risques. Mon principal terrain de jeu est l'Amérique du Sud, avec des affectations en Bolivie, au Brésil et en Equateur. Equipe G3

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CV / functions

2010 Senior researcher at the IRD, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development

2008 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

1994 Young researcher at the IRD, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (former Orstom)

1992 PhD degree (IFREMER, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse)

1989 DEA (Master) « Physique et Chimie de l’Environnement » – Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse

1989 Engineer ENSEEIHT (École Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, Electrotechnique, Informatique et Hydraulique de Toulouse) Hydraulique, option Sciences de l’eau

Responsibilities

Conseillère scientifique (auprès de la Direction de l’IRD) sur le défi « Géoressources Eaux et Durabilité »
Présidente du jury interdisciplinaire de l’IRD (2021-actuel)
Représentante par intérim IRD-Equateur (2017-2019)
Membre élue de la CSS1 de l’IRD (2012-2016)
Représentante de l’IRD à l’ALLENVI (depuis 2012) dans le groupe thématique « Eaux continentales »
Responsable de l’équipe thématique T6 du GET « Interactions contaminants métalliques / Ecosystèmes – Interfaces avec la Santé et la Société » (2010-2014)
Co-animatrice de l’axe transverse de l’OMP « Environnement – Santé et Sociétés » (2007-2014)
Organisation de sessions spéciales à congrès internationaux (Int. on environmental Geochemistry and Health, Int. Conf. on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Int. Conf. on Heavy Metals in the Environment, etc.)

Publications

Consultables sur: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3482-3892

Bo Wang, Shaochen Yang, Ping Li*, Chongyang Qina, Chuan Wang, Muhammad Ubaid Alia, Runsheng Yinc, Laurence Maurice, David Point, Jeroen E. Sonke, Leiming Zhang, Xinbin Feng, 2023. Trace mercury migration and human exposure in typical mercury-emission areas by compound-specific stable isotope analysis. Environment International, Vol. 174, 107891, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.107891

Durango-Cordero J.S., Saqalli M., Ferrant S., Bonnilla S., Maurice L., Arellano P. and Elger A., 2022. Risk assessment of unlined oil pits leaking into groundwater in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A modified GIS-DRASTIC approach. Applied Geography, 139, 102628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102628

Maurice L., Barraza F., Blondet I., Ho-A-Chuck M., Tablon J., Brousse P., Demar M., and Schreck E., 2021. Childhood lead exposure of Amerindian communities in French Guiana: an isotopic approach to tracing sources. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-00944-9

Maurice L., Gaël Le Croizier, Gabriela Morales, Natalia Carpintero, Juan M. Guayasamin, Jeroen Sonke, Diego Paez, Walter Bustos, David Point, and Valeria Ochoa-Herrera, 2021. Concentrations and stable isotopes of mercury in sharks of the Galapagos Marine Reserve: Human health concerns and feeding patterns. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 215:112122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112122

Barraza F., Schreck E., Uzu G., Lévêque T., Zouiten C., Boidot M., and Maurice L., 2021. Beyond cadmium accumulation: distribution of other trace elements in soils and cacao beans in Ecuador. Environmental Research, 110241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110241

Du B., Yin R., Li P., Feng X. and Maurice L., 2021. Use of mercury isotopes to quantify sources of human inorganic mercury exposure and metabolic processes in the human body. Environment International, 147: 106336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106336

Laffont, L., Menges, J., Goix, S., Gentès S., Maury-Brachet R., Sonke J.E., Legeay A., Rinaldo R. and Maurice L., 2021. Hg concentrations and stable isotope variations in tropical fish species of a gold-mining-impacted watershed in French Guiana. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 60609–60621. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14858-7

Vanderschueren R., Argüello D., Blommaert H., Montalvo D., Barraza F., Maurice L., Schreck E., Schulin R., Lewis C., Vazquez J.L., Umaharan P., Chavez E., Sarret G., Smolders E., 2021. Mitigating the level of cadmium in cacao products: reviewing the transfer of cadmium from soil to chocolate bar. Science of the Total Environment, 781(2):146779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146779

Vinueza D., Ochoa-Herrera V., Maurice L., Tamayo E.,Mejia M.L., Tejera E. and Machado A., 2021. Determining the microbial and chemical contamination in Ecuador’s main rivers. Scientific Reports.

Barraza F., Uzu G., Jaffrezo J.L., Schreck E., Budzinski H., Le Menach K., Dévier M.H., Guyard H., Calas A., Perez M.I., Villacreces L. and Maurice L., 2020. Contrasts in chemical composition and oxidative potential in PM10 near flares in oil extraction and refining areas in Ecuador. Atmospheric Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117302

Borja-Serrano P., Ochoa-Herrera V., Maurice L., Morales G., Quillumbaqui C., Tejera E. and Machado A., 2020. Determination of the Microbial and Chemical Loads in Rivers from the Quito Capital Province of Ecuador (Pichincha)—A Preliminary Analysis of Microbial and Chemical Quality of the Main Rivers. Int. Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(14):5048; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17145048

Du B., Li P., Feng X., Yin R., Zhou J. and Maurice L., 2020. Monthly variations in mercury exposure of school children and adults in an industrial area of southwestern China. Environmental Research, 110362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110362

Maurice L., López F., Becerra S., Jamhoury H., Le Menach K., Dévier M.H., Budzinski H., Prunier J., Juteau-Martineau G., Ochoa-Herrera V., Quiroga D., and Schreck E., 2019. Drinking water quality in areas impacted by oil activities in Ecuador: associated health risks and social perception of human exposure. Science of the Total Environment, 690: 1203-1217.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.089

Barraza, F., Moore, R., Rehkämper, M., Schreck, E., Lefeuvre, G., Kreissig, K., Coles, B., Maurice, L., 2019. Cadmium isotope fractionation in soil-cacao systems of Ecuador: a pilot field study. RSC Advances 9, 34011-34022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9RA05516A

Baudrimont M., Arini A., Guégan C., Venel Z., Gigault J., Pedrono B., Prunier J., Maurice L., Ter Halle A., and Feurtet-Maze A., 2019. Ecotoxicity of polyethylene nanoplastics from the North Atlantic oceanic gyre on freshwater and marine organisms (microalgae and filter-feeding bivalves). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Springer Verlag, ⟨10.1007/s11356-019-04668-3⟩.

Goix S., Maurice L., Laffont L., Rinaldo R., Lagane C., Chmeleff J. Menges J., Heimbürger L.A., Maury-Brachet R. and Sonke J., 2019. Quantifying the impacts of artisanal gold mining on a tropical river system using mercury isotopes. Chemosphere, 219:684-694.

Houssou N. L. J., Durango-Cordero J., Bouadjio-Boulic A., Morin L., Maestripieri N., Ferrant S., Belem M., Peláez J I., Saenz M., Lerigoleur E., Paegelow M., Mena C. F., Elger A., Gaudou B., Maurice L., Saqalli M. 2019. Synchronizing histories of exposure and demography: the construction of an agent-based model of the Ecuadorian Amazon colonization and exposure to oil pollution hazards. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 140, 3.

Prunier J., Maurice L., Perez E., Gigault J., Pierson Wickmann A.C., Davranche M., ter Halle A., 2018. Trace metals in plastic debris from the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Environmental Pollution, 245: 271-379.

Du B., Feng X., Li P., Yin R., Yu B., Sonke J.E., Guinot B., Anderson C.W.N. and Maurice L., 2018. Use of mercury isotopes to quantify mercury exposure sources in inland populations, China. Environmental Science & Technology, 52 : 5407-5416.

Dutra Maia P., Maurice L., Tessier E., Amouroux D., Cossa D., Moreira-Turcq P., Etcheber H., 2018. Role of the floodplain lakes in the methylmercury distribution and exchanges with the Amazon River, Brazil. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 68: 24-40.

Barraza, F., Maurice, L., Uzu, G., Becerra, S., Ochoa-Herrera, V., Lopez, F., Ruales, J., and Schreck, E. 2018. Distribution, content and health risk assessment of metal(loid)s in small-scale farms in the Ecuadorian Amazon: an insight on oil activities impacts. Science of the Total Environment, 622-623: 106-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.07.080

Li P., Du B., Maurice L., Laffont L., Lagane C., Point D., Sonke J., Yin R., Fen X., 2017. Mercury isotope signatures of methylmercury in rice samples from the Wanshan mercury mining area, China: environmental implications. Environmental Science & Technology, 51 (21): 12321-12328.

Barraza F., Schreck E., Lévêque T., Uzu G., Lopez F., Ruales J., Prunier J., Marquet A. and Maurice L., 2017. Cadmium bioaccumulation and gastric bioaccessibility in cacao: a field study in areas impacted by oil activities in Ecuador. Environmental Pollution, Volume 229, Pages 950-963.

Du B., Li P., Feng X., Qiu G., Zhou J., and Maurice L., 2016. Mercury exposure in children of the Wanshan mercury mining area, Guizhou, China. Int. J. of Environ. Res. and Public Health, 13, 1107; doi:10.3390/ijerph13111107.

Yu B., Fu X., Yin R., Zhang H., Wang X., Lin C.J., Wu C., Zhang Y., He N., Fu P., Wang Z., Shang L., Sommar J., Sonke J. E., Maurice L., Guinot B., and Feng X., 2016. Isotopic composition of atmospheric mercury in China: New evidence for source and transformation processes in air and in vegetation. Environmental Science & Technology, 50 (17): 9262–9269.

Pérez Naranjo C.G., Maurice L., Ochoa-Herrera V., López F., Schreck E., Egas D., Lagane C. and Besson P., 2015. Determinación de elementos mayores en sedimentos provenientes de zonas afectadas por actividades petroleras en Ecuador. Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías, Vol. 7, No. 2 : C95-C114.

Feng, C., Pedrero Z., Gentès S., Barre J., Renedo M., Tessier E., Berail S., Maury-Brachet R., Mesmer-Dudons N., Baudrimont M., Legeay A., Maurice L., Gonzalez P., and Amouroux D., 2015. Specific pathways of dietary methylmercury and inorganic mercury determined by mercury speciation and isotopic composition in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Environmental Science & Technology, 49:12984-12993.

Gentès S., Maury-Brachet R., Feng, C., Pedrero Z., Tessier E., Legeay A., Mesmer-Dudons N., Baudrimont M., Maurice L., Amouroux D., and Gonzalez P., 2015. Specific effects of dietary methylmercury and inorganic mercury in zebrafish (Danio rerio) determined by genetic, histological and metallothioneins responses. Environmental Science & Technology, 49:14560-14569.

Dellinger M., Gaillardet J., Bouchez J., Calmels D., Louvat P., Dosseto A., Gorge C., Alanoca L. and Maurice L., 2015. Riverine Li isotope fractionation in the Amazon River basin controlled by the weathering regimes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 164: 71-93.

Moquet J.S., Maurice L., Crave A., Viers J., Arevalo N., Lagane C., Lavado W. and Guyot J.L., 2014. Cl and Na fluxes in an Andean foreland basin of the Peruvian Amazon: An anthropogenic impact evidence. Aquatic Geochemistry, 20: 613–637.

Bouchez J., Galy V., Gaillardet J., Hilton R.G., Moreira-Turcq P., Perez M., France-Lanord C., and Maurice L., 2014. Sources, fluxes, transport, and fate of Amazon River particulate organic carbon: insights from river sediment depth-profiles. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 133: 280-298.

Bissardon P., Becerra S. and Maurice L., 2013. Le risque sanitaire lié aux activités pétrolières en Amazonie équatorienne : des alertes aux décisions. ERS – Environnement, Risques et Santé, Vol. 12 (4):338-344. doi : 10.1684/ers.2013.0627

Moreira Turcq P., Bonnet M.P., Amorim M., Bernardes M., Lagane C., Maurice L., Perez M., Seyler P., 2013. Seasonal variability in concentration, composition, age, and fluxes of particulate organic carbon exchanged between the floodplain and Amazon River. Global Biochemical Cycles, 2013, 27:1-12. ISSN 0886-6236.

Bouchez J., Gaillardet J., Lupker M., Louvat P., France-Lanord C., Maurice L., Armijos E., Moquet J.S., 2013. Floodplains of large rivers: weathering reactors or simple silos? Chemical Geology, 2012, 332:166-184. ISSN 0009-2541.

Laffont L., Maurice L., Amouroux D., Navarro P., Monperrus M., Sonke J.E. and Behra P., 2012. Mercury speciation analysis in human hair by double species-specific isotope dilution using GC-ICP-MS. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. DOI 10.1007/s00216-012-6116-2

Wittmann H., von Blanckenburg F., Guyot J.L., Maurice L., Kubik P.W., 2011. Quantifying sediment discharge from the Bolivian Andes into the Beni foreland basin from cosmogenic ¹⁰Be-derived denudation rates. Revista Brasileira de Geociências, Vol. 41(4): 629-641.

Bouchez J., Gaillardet J., France-Lanord C., Maurice L., and Dutra-Maia P., 2011. Grain-size control of river suspended sediment geochemistry: clues from Amazon River depth-profiles. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 12(3), Q03008, . ISSN 1525-2027. doi:10.1029/2010GC003380.

Bouchez J., Metivier F., Lupker M., Maurice L., Perez M., Gaillardet J., France-Lanord C., 2011. Prediction of depth-integrated fluxes of suspended sediment in the Amazon River: particle aggregation as a complicating factor. Hydrological Processes, 25 (5), p. 778-794. ISSN 0885-6087

Laffont L., Sonke J. E., Maurice L., Monrroy S. L., Chincheros J., Amouroux D. and Behra P., 2011. Mercury stable isotopes signatures in human hair as a tracer for dietary and occupational exposure to mercury. Environmental Science & Technology, 45: 9910-9916.

Wittmann H., von Blanckenburg F., Maurice L., Guyot Jean-Loup, Filizola N., Kubik P. W., 2011. Sediment production and delivery in the Amazon River basin quantified by in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides and recent river loads. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123 (5-6), p. 934-950. ISSN 0016-7606.

Wittmann H., von Blanckenburg F., Maurice L., Guyot Jean-Loup, Kubik P. W., 2011. Recycling of Amazon floodplain sediment quantified by cosmogenic Al-26 and Be-10. Geology, 39 (5), p. 467-470. ISSN 0091-7613

Bouchez J., Beyssac O., Galy V., Gaillardet J., France Lanord C., Maurice L., and Moreira Turcq P., 2010. Oxidation of petrogenic organic carbon in the Amazon floodplain as a source of atmospheric CO2. Geology, 38 (3) : 255-258.

Bouchez J., Lajeunesse E., Gaillardet J., France-Lanord C., Dutra-Maia P. and Maurice L., 2010. Turbulent mixing in the Amazon River: the isotopic memory of confluences. EPSL, 290 (1-2), p. 37-43. ISSN 0012-821X.

Laffont L., Sonke J. E., Maurice L., Baccareza Y. S., Behra P. Hg speciation and stable isotopes in human hair as a tracer for dietary Hg exposure. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010, 74 (12), p. A554-A554. ISSN 0016-7037.

Souza Nogueira I., Nabout J.C., Rodrigues Ibañez M.S and Maurice L., 2010. Determinants of beta-diversity: the relative importance of environmental and spatial processes in structuring phytoplankton communities in an Amazonian floodplain. Acta Limnol. Bras., 22(3)

Laffont L., Sonke J.E., Maurice L., Hintelmann H., Pouilly M., Sanchez Y., Perez T and Behra P., 2009. Anomalous mercury isotopic compositions of fish and human hair in the Bolivian Amazon. Environmental Science & Technology, 43: 8985-8990.

Wittmann H., Blanckenburg F., Guyot J.L., Maurice L. and Kubik P.W., 2009. From source to sink: the denudation rate of the Bolivian Andes as recorded by cosmogenic 10Be and its preservation across the Beni and Mamore foreland basins. EPSL, 288:463-474.

Dutra Maia P., Maurice L., Tessier E., Cossa D., Amouroux D., Perez M., Moreira Turcq P., and Rhéault I., 2009. Mercury distribution and exchanges between the Amazon River and floodplain lakes (Brazil). Science of the Total Environment. volume 407, issue 23, pp. 6073 – 6084.

Bouchez J., Gaillardet J., France-Lanord C., Maurice Bourgoin L. Grain sorting in large rivers and continental recycling. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009, 73 (13 suppl. 1), p. A144. ISSN 0016-7037.

Epov, V.; Rodriguez-Gonzalez, P.; Sonke, J.; Tessier, E.; Amouroux, D.; Maurice Bourgoin, L.; Donard, O., 2008. Simultaneous determination of species-specific isotopic fractionation of Hg by Gas Chromatography coupled to Multicollector ICP-MS. Analytical Chemistry, 80 (10), p. 3530-3538.

Bonnet M.P., Barroux G., Martinez J.M., Seyler F., Moreira Turcq P., Cochonneau G., Melack J., Boaventura G., Maurice-Bourgoin L., Leon J.G., Roux E., Calmant S., Kosuth P., Guyot J.L., and Seyler P., 2008. Floodplain hydrology in an Amazon floodplain lake (Lago Grande de Curuaí). J. of Hydrology, 349 : 18-30.

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Bonnet M.P., Martinez J.M., Kosuth P., Cochonneau G., Moreira Turcq P., Guyot J.L., Vauchel P., Filizola N. and Seyler P., 2007. Temporal dynamics of water and sedimentexchanges between the Curuaí floodplain and the Amazon River main stream, Brazil. J. of Hydrology, 335 : 140-156.

Dosseto A., B. Bourdon, J. Gaillardet, L. Maurice-Bourgoin and C. J. Allègre, 2006. Weathering and transport of sediments in the Bolivian Andes: time constraints from uranium-series isotopes. EPSL, N° 248(3-4): 759-771.

Maurice-Bourgoin L., Martinez JM., Grélaud J., Filizola N. and Boaventura G.R., 2005. The role of flood plains in the hydrology and sediment dynamics of the Amazon River, Brazil, in “Sediment budgets 1&2” (D. E. Walling and A. J. Horowitz, Eds), IAHS Publ. No 291, 310-322.

Aalto R., Maurice-Bourgoin L., Dunne T., Montgomery, D.R., Nittrouer C. and Guyot J.L., 2003. Episodic sediment accumulation on Amazonian floodplains influenced by El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Nature, 425: 493-497.

Maurice-Bourgoin L., Quémerais B., Moreira-Turcq P., and Seyler P., 2003. Transport, distribution and speciation of mercury in the Amazon River at the confluence of black and white waters of the Negro and Solimões rivers. Hydrological Processes, 17: 1405-1417.

Maurice-Bourgoin L., Aalto R. and Guyot J.L., 2002. Sediment-Associated Mercury Distribution within a Major Amazon Tributary: Century-Scale Contamination History and Importance of the flood plain accumulation, in “The structure, Function and management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary systems” (Dyer F., Thoms M.C. and Olley J.M., Eds), IAHS Publ. N^o 276, 161-168.

Aalto, R., Dunne, T., Nittrouer C., Maurice-Bourgoin, L., and Montgomery, D.2002. Fluvial Transport of Sediment Across a Pristine Foreland basin : Channel-Flood plain Interaction and episodic flood plain deposition. “The structure, Function and management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary systems” (Dyer F., Thoms M.C. and Olley J.M., Eds), IAHS Publ. N^o 276, 339-344.

John J Gibson, Pradeep Aggarwal, James Hogan, Carol Kendall, Luiz A Martinelli, Willi Stichler, Dieter Rank, Ibrahim Goni, Manzoor Choudhry, Joel Gat, Sourendra Bhattacharya, Atsuko Sugimoto, Balazs Fekete, Alain Pietroniro, Thomas Maurer, Hector Panarello, David Stone, Patrick Seyler, Laurence Maurice-Bourgoin, Andrew Herczeg, 2002. Isotope studies in large river basins: a new global research focus. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 83 (52), 613.

Ferrari C., Clotteau T., Thompson L., Barbante C., Cozzi P., Cescon P., Hong S., Maurice-Bourgoin L., Francou B. and Boutron C.F., 2001. Heavy metals in ancient tropical ice : initial results. Atmospheric Environnement, 35 : 5809-5815.

Maurice-Bourgoin L., Quiroga I., Chincherros J. and Courau P., 2000. Mercury distribution in waters and fishes of the Upper Madeira rivers and mercury exposure in riparian Amazonian populations. Science of the Total Environment,260: 73-86.

Hedges J.I., Mayorga E., Tsamakis E., McClain M.E., Aufdenkampe A., Quay P., Richey J.E., Benner R., Opshal S., Black B., Pimentel T., Maurice-Bourgoin L., Quintanilla J., 2000. Organic matter in Bolivian tributaries of the Amazon river : a comparison to the lower mainstream. Limnology and Oceanography, 45(7): 1449-1466.

Maurice-Bourgoin L., Quiroga I., Guyot J.L. and Malm O., 1999a. Mercury pollution in the upper Beni River basin, Bolivia. AMBIO, Vol. 28(4): 302-306.

Elbaz-Poulichet F., Seyler P., Maurice-Bourgoin L., Guyot J.L., Dupuy C. 1999c. Trace element geochemistry in the upper Amazon drainage basin (Bolivia). Chemical Geology, 157 : 319-334.

Seyler P., Guyot J.L., Maurice-Bourgoin L., Sondag F., Elbaz-Poulichet F., Etcheber H., Quintanilla J., 1999d. Origin of trace elements in the Bolivian Amazonian drainage basin. In: Hydrology in the Humid Tropic Environment, IAHS Publications n^o 253, pp:47-58.

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