UPS welcomes Madina Doumbia

Dr Madina Doumbia, a physicist from Côte d’ivoire, recently spent 3-months on secondment at the Laboratoire d’Aérologie (LAERO), CNRS/University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (UPS), France.

Madina is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, at the Université Péléforo GON COULIBALY (UPGC), Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire, and an associate researcher at the Laboratory of Sciences of Matter, Environment and Solar Energy (LASMES), University Félix Houphouët Boigny (UFHB), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Her research focuses on the impact of anthropogenic emissions on air quality and climate at local and regional scales.

You can listen to Madina talk about her research here. Madina was one of eight female scientists interviewed about their research and career paths by Les Petit.e.s Débrouillard.e.s d’Occitanie (APDOC) at the first INSA workshop, held in Abidjan in 2022.

Within the scope of the INSA project, Madina is part of a team of researchers who are developing an inventory of anthropogenic emissions of nitrogen compounds specific to Africa, and assessing their impact on atmospheric chemistry and climate using the Regional Climate Model (RegCM5).

Madina had two primary objectives for her secondment. Her first was to update the emission inventories of nitrogenous species from traffic to include all anthropogenic activities, and include ammonia (NH3) in addition to nitrogen oxides (NOx). Her second objective was to perform a sensitivity analysis of the RegCM5 model relative to to anthropogenic emission inventories of nitrogen oxides (from traffic, domestic and commercial activities, industries, thermal power stations, landfill fires and biomass fires).

While in Toulouse, Madina worked primarily with Dr Cathy Liousse (leader of Task 3.5) and Dr Fabien Solmon (leader of Work Package 4).

During her secondment, Madina had the opportunity to participate in the Désertif’actions Summit which took place from October 5th to 8th, 2022 in Montpellier, France. The meeting brought together NGOs, scientists, local authorities and international institutions to discuss land degradation in relation to desertification, protection of biodiversity, adaptation to climate change and its consequences in the North and in the South (see blogpost here). The associated festival Des Terres et Des Graines (Soil and Seeds), a day dedicated to sharing with the public, was held on October 8th. Madina, together with colleague Adama Bakayoko, gave a public seminar at the festival, presenting objectives and results from the INSA project to the greater public.