VSoil meetings

The VSoil meetings are designed to bring together members of the VSoil user community and members of the public keen to find out more about VSoil. You can find below all the information regarding each edition of the VSoil meetings.

• VSoil meetings - session 2026

The first edition of the VSoil meetings took place on 26 and 27 March 2026 in the URFM building at the INRAE PACA centre in Avignon and was attended by 28 people (members of the VSoil community as well as a few people from the INRAE PACA centre who had come to find out more about VSoil). You can access here the programme of these VSoil meetings. It includes 10 oral presentations, one of which was in poster format. The presentation materials are available below:

1. The VSoil modelling platform. Nicolas Beudez and Nicolas Moitrier (INRAE UMR EMMAH, Avignon, France, VSoil team);
2. Models of coupled matrix and preferential macropore flow in VSoil. Eric Michel (INRAE UMR EMMAH, Avignon, France);
3. VSoilForOAD project - Development of a prototype of climate service - "forest_soil_practicability_prevision_tool". Noémie Pousse (ONF - Research, Development and Innovation division, Chambéry, France).
4. Cluster-Based GSA: a clustering-based approach to global sensitivity analysis of models with dynamic and/or spatial outputs. Samuel Buis (INRAE UMR EMMAH, Avignon, France);
5. Simulating pesticide fate in row-planted plots using the MIPP model (OpenFLUID x VSoil) - Application for evaluating strategies to reduce pesticide use in southern viticulture. Cécile Dagès (INRAE UMR LISAH, Montpellier, France).
6. Introducing a volume change function in process-based modelling of soil evolution: a proof of concept. Hamza Chaif (INRAE UMR CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France).
7. Use of VSoil to model the water retention and flow properties of a Mexican soil irrigated with wastewater. Rafael Márquez Caballé (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico). Oral presentation recorded on video.
8. Accounting for the multiple roles of organic matter in modelling the transport and fate of organic contaminants in soil. Valérie Pot (INRAE UMR EcoSys, Palaiseau, France).
9. Modelling Nitrous Oxide (N₂O) emissions and its isotopic composition with explicit representation of biochemical processes and fluid transfers in soil at fine scale. Agnès Grossel (INRAE UR info&Sols, Orléans, France).
10. Characterisation of soil hydraulic properties using combined electrical-hydraulic inversion. Claude Doussan (INRAE UMR EMMAH, Avignon, France). Oral presentation given in front of a poster.