Contact details

Associate Professor at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.

Study Group on Natural, Anthropogenic and Archaeological Environments and Geomaterials - GEGENA, EA 3795
2 Esplanade Roland Garros
F-51100 Reims
Phone : + 33 (0)3 26 77 36 38
E-Mail : benjamin.cances@univ-reims.fr

Key words

Contamination in soils; mobility of trace elements in a perennial grapevine; environmental pollution

International conferences

- Cancès, B.; Gommeaux, M.; Marin, B.; Ponthieu, M.; Ralahimanana, C.; Ayachi, S.; Malam Issa, O. (2012) Variability of physicochemical and mineralogical characteristics of biological soil crusts at local sacle in the Sahelian zone of western Niger, EGU, Vienne (Austria), p 9253.

Some publications

- Proffit S., Marin B., Cancès B., Ponthieu M., Sayen S., Guillon E. Using synthetic models to simulate aging of Cu contamination in soils. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

- Cancès B., Juillot F., Morin G., Laperche V., Polya D., Vaughan D.J., Hazemann J-L., Proux O., Brown Jr. G. E., Calas G. (2008) Changes in arsenic speciation through a contaminated soil profile: A XAS based study. Science of the Total Environment, 397, 178-189.

- Chopin E.I.B., Marin B., Mkoungafoko R., Rigaux A., Hopgood M.J., Delannoy E., Cancès B., Laurain M. (2008) Factors affecting distribution and mobility of trace elements (Cu, Pb, Zn) in a perennial grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) in the Champagne region of France. Environmental Pollution, 156, 1092-1098.

C- ancès, B., Juillot F., Morin G., Laperche V., Alvarez L., Hazemann J-L., Proux O., Brown Jr. G. E., Calas G. (2005). "XAS evidence of As(V) association with iron oxyhydroxides in a contaminated soil at a former arsenical pesticide processing plant." Environmental Science and Technology 39(24): 9398-9405.

- Cancès B., Ponthieu M., Castrec-Rouelle M., Aubry E., Benedetti M.F. (2003) Metal ions speciation in a soil and its solution : experimental data and model results, Geoderma, 113, 341-355.