Convener and organizing committees in conferences
-2019: Participation to the ESA Living Planet Symposium scientific committee, 13-17 May 2019
-2019: Co-convener of the EGU session on soil moisture remote sensing HS6.4, 9-12 April 2019
-2018: Organizing committee of the ECMWF Annual Seminar 2018 on Earth System assimilation, 10-13 September 2018
-2018: Co-convener of the EGU session on soil moisture remote sensing HS6.4, April 2018
-2018: Organising committee of the ECMWF Workshop on observations and analysis of sea-surface temperature and sea ice for NWP and Climate Applications, 22-25 January 2018
-2017: Organising committee of ECMWF/ESA workshop on using low frequency passive microwave measurements in research and operational applications, 4-6 December 2017
-2017: Convener of the 'Remote sensing of Soil Moisture" session (HS6.4) at the EGU conference.
-2016: Organizing committee of the ECMWF Annual Seminar 2016 on Earth system modelling for seamless prediction: On which processes should we focus to further improve atmospheric predictive skill?
-2016: Scientific Committee of the Living Planet Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, 9-13 May 2016
-2016: Co-convener of the EGU session on soil moisture remote sensing HS6.4/SSS7.10, April 2016
-2015: Scientific Committee of the ESA GEWEX conference on Earth Observation for Water Cycle Science 20th-23rd October 2015 ESA-ESRIN, Italy
- 2015: Convener of the 'Remote sensing of Soil Moisture" session (HS6.4) at the EGU conference.
-2014: Co-Organizer of the H-SAF/HEPEX workshops on coupled hydrology, 3-7 November 2014, ECMWF, UK
- 2014: Co-convener of the 'Data-assimilation in land surface and hydrological models" session at the 7th International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle.
- 2014: Co-convener of the 'Remote sensing of Soil Moisture" session (HS6.7) at the EGU conference.
- 2014: Co-convener of the 'ESA's SMOS and NASA's SMAP missions: providing global observations of soil moisture and ocean salinity and beyond’ " session (HS6.2) at the EGU conference.
- 2013: Participation to the ESA Living Planet Symposium scientific committee
- 2013: Co-convener of the 'Remote sensing of Soil Moisture" session (HS6.2) at the EGU conference.
- 2012: Co-convener of the 'Remote sensing of Soil Moisture" session (HS6.2) at the EGU conference.
- 2011: Convener of the 'Remote sensing of Soil Moisture" session (HS6.2) at the EGU conference.
- 2010: co-convener of the 'Remote sensing of Soil Moisture" session (HS10.6) at the EGU conference.
-2009 : Co-Organizer of the ECMWF/GLASS Workshop on Land Surface Modelling, Data Assimilation and the implications for predictability, 9-12 November 2009, ECMWF, UK
- 2009: co-convener of the 'Soil Moisture remote sensing" session (HS7.4) at the EGU conference.
- 2008: convener of the " Soil moisture estimation using field instrumentation, remote sensing and modelling" (session hs11.5, hydrological sciences) session at EGU
- 2006: convener of an EGU session: "Multi scale soil moisture estimation using field instrumentation, remote sensing and modeling" (session hs11, hydrological sciences, co-listed with atmospheric sciences, geophysical instrumentation, soil system sciences).
- 2005: Convener of an EGU (European Geophysical Union) session: ``Estimation of soil moisture at the regional and global scale using field experiments, remote sensing and land surface modelling'' (session hs2, hydrological sciences, co-listed with atmospheric sciences and climate, and co-sponsored by iLEAPS).
Other involvement in conferences organisation
-2019: Reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2019
- 2018: Reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2018
-2017: Reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2017
- 2016: Reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2016
- 2014: Reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2014
- 2013: Reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2013
- 2013: Member of the scientific committe of the European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium, 9-13 September 2013
- 2013: Member of the organising committe of the ESA Satellite Soil Moisture validation and applications workshop, ESRIN, 1-3 July 2013
- 2012: Reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2012
- 2011: Scientific committee member of the SMOS sciences workshop, Arles, 2011
- 2011: Scientific Committee member and reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2011
- 2010: Session chair at the ESA living Planet Symposium, 28-June-2 July, Bergen, Norway, 2010
- 2010: Reviewer for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2010
- 2009: Member of the technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2008
- 2008: Member of the technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), and session chair (session TUP.D: Surface roughness and soil properties).
Seminars and workshops organization
-2003-2007 : Organization of internal seminars at CESBIO (frequency of 2 weeks).
-2005: Organization of a workshop on microwave radiometry, Vienna, IPF (Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), 27-apr 2005 : ``Measuring and Understanding Passive Microwave Signals above Land Surfaces; A Comparison Study of Different Field Experiments''
- Member of the COST action ES1404 A european network for a harmonised monitoring of snow for the benefit of climate change scenarios, hydrology and numerical weather prediction (since 2014)
- Member of the surface expert team of the SRNWP (Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction) (since 2009)
- Member of the Snow Watch group of Global Cryosphere Watch (since 2014)
- Member of the SMAP Early Adopters Team (since 2011)
- Member of the SMAP Science Definition Team (2009-2014)
- Member of the SMOS Quality Working Group (since 2010)
- Member of Global Land/Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) (since 2009)
- Member of the Satellite Application Facility (SAF) on support to operational hydrology (H-SAF) Project Team (since 2008)
-Member of the commission scientifique sectorielle n°1 (CSS1) on "Sciences physiques et chimiques de l’environnement planétaire" for the French IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) (since 2016)
- Member of the French CCMA (Comité de Coordination de la Mousson Africaine) 2003-2007
- Member of the CESBIO « Conseil scientifique de laboratoire » 2005-2007
- Member of the OASC (Ocean Atmosphere Surfaces Continentales) Master 2 teaching committee, University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). 2003-2007
Occasional reviewer for
- AMS journals: J. of Climate, J. of Hydrometeorology,
- AGU journals: J. of Geophys. Research, Geophysical Research Letter, Water Resource Research,
- Elsevier: Remote sensing of Environment, Advances in Water resources, J. of hydrology
- Other journals: IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sensing, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,
- Q. Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Tellus
- National French programs (ECLIPSE and ANR)
- National US program: US National Science Foundation
- Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- Austrian program: NSF
- Belgian Science Policy.