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Dr. Laurent APRIN
Associate Professor
Risk Department
Ecole des Mines d’Alès
February, 24, 2016
Dear Sir or Madam,
I had the opportunity to oversee the work of Miriam Cosenza during her Erasmus internship
as part of his Sapienza University course for a period of five months between October 2015 to
February 2016. The internship was performed at the Ecole des Mines d’Alès in the Risk
Department.
Miriam was associated to the European Project HNS-MS: Improving Member States
Preparedness to Face an HNS Pollution of the Marine System, funded by the DG-Echo. The
main objective of this action is to develop a decision-support tool that national maritime
authorities and coastguard stations will activate in order to forecast the drift, fate and behavior
of acute marine pollution by Harmful Noxious Substances (HNS) accidentally released in the
marine system. The aims of the work proposed to Miriam focused on the experimental
characterization of underwater chemical discharges and on the development of an efficient
model to calculate the mass flow rate and the draining time from shipwreck.
The participation of Miriam to this work has resulted in writing a paper in an international
conference (CISAP7, Ischia 2016). Miriam is a motivated person, invested in the research
work, has excellent interpersonal skills and was an effective team member.
Laurent Aprin