KEYWORDS: alpine vegetation, geomorphology, permafrost, climate change
RESEARCH STATEMENT
At the University of Lausanne, I am working on relationship between geomorphology and vegetation. More in detail, I would like to quantify how morphodynamics of landforms and earth surface processes (solifluction, rill erosion, nivation and frost weathering) affect plant communities and species richness. One other part of my research concerns the development of a methodology to obtain a granulometry classification starting from high resolution images and the elaboration of a semi-automated geomorphological map using multiple point geostatistics approach.
BIOGRAPHY
After completing by bachelor in 2011 in Natural Science at the University of Turin (Italy), I obtained in 2013 my master in Biology of Environment in the same university. The topic of my master thesis was to understand the interactions between climate change, permafrost and vegetation in a small alpine catchment in the NW Italian Alps. After a stage in Agroscope (Nyon, Switzerland) about climate change and vegetation, I worked for one year and half at the University of Turin with a fellowship on climate change and permafrost. Then, I applied and started my PhD at the University of Lausanne in 2016.
TEAM AND COLLABORATIONS
High Mountain Geomorphology, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics
Integralp project, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics
Swiss Geomorphological Society (SGmS), Swiss Young Geomorphologist representative
PUBLICATIONS
Giaccone E., Fratianni S., Cortesi N., González-Hidalgo JC., 2019. Surface ozone concentration and its relation with weather types in NW Italy, 2003-2014. Climate Research, 77: 77-89.
Colombo N., Giaccone E., Paro L., Buffa G., Fratianni S., 2016. The recent transition from glacial to periglacial environment in a high altitude alpine basin (Sabbione basin, North-Western Italian Alps). Preliminary outcomes from a multidisciplinary approach. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria, 39: 21-36.
Scapozza C., Giaccone E., Mari S., Antognini M., Fratianni S., Ambrosi C., 2015. Il permafrost nelle Alpi Ticinesi: temperatura e movimenti dei ghiacciai rocciosi dal 2006 al 2014. Dati – Statistiche e società, A. XV, n. 2, pp. 100-109.
Giaccone E., Colombo N., Acquaotta F., Paro L., Fratianni S., 2015. Climate variations in a high altitude Alpine basin and their effects on a glacial environment (Italian Western Alps). Atmósfera, 28(2): 117-128.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Giaccone E., Mariéthoz G., Lambiel C., 2018. How geomorphological factors and microclimate influence alpine vegetation? Cases study in the Western Swiss Alps. 16th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, 30th November – 1st December 2018, Bern.
Giaccone E., Lambiel C., Mariéthoz G., 2018. Debris size classification of alpine landforms using high-resolution images. 5th European Conference on Permafrost, 23rd June – 1st July 2018, Chamonix Mont-Blanc.
Giaccone E., Luoto M., Mariéthoz G., Lambiel C., 2018. Influence of morphodynamics and earth surface processes on alpine vegetation in the Western Swiss Alps. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 20, 12783.
Giaccone E., Mariéthoz G., Lambiel C., 2018. Le rôle de la variabilité géomorphologique sur les communautés végétales à l’étage alpin : cas d’étude dans les Alpes Vaudoises. Journées des jeunes géomorphologues, 26-27 January 2018, Lyon, France.
Giaccone E., Mariéthoz G., Lambiel C., 2017. Influence of geo-components on vegetation in the alpine environment. Swiss Geomorphological Society Meeting, 31 August – 1 September, Zermatt, Switzerland.
Vivero S., Giaccone E., Meyrat R., Lambiel C., 2017. Repeated UAV surveys for rock glacier monitoring in the Western Swiss Alps. Swiss Geomorphological Society Meeting, 31 August – 1 September, Zermatt, Switzerland.
Bollati I., Azzoni R.S., Celada C., Cerrato R., Crosa Lenz B., Giaccone E., Masseroli A., Pellegrini M., Schenker F., Vezzola L., Viani C., Zanoner T., Scapozza C., Zerboni A., Gugliemin M., 2017. IVth AIGeo Young Geomorphologists’ Stage “High mountain landscape and climate change”. Analysis of the deglaciation history in an Italy-Switzerland cross-border area: the Val Viola (Upper Valtellina-Poschiavo Valley). VII Young Geomorphologists’ Day “Innovative technologies for monitoring and digitally modeling past and present geomorphological processes”, 15-16 June 2017, Napoli, Italy.
Giaccone E., Mariéthoz G., Lambiel C., 2017. Interactions between geomorphology and vegetation in the Western Swiss Alps: first investigations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 19, 12983.
Giaccone E., Mariéthoz G., Lambiel C., 2017. Interactions between geomorphology and vegetation in the Vaud Alps: first investigations. Biology17, 2-3 February 2017, Bern, Switzerland.
Giaccone E., Mariéthoz G., Lambiel C., 2016. Interactions between geomorphology and vegetation in the Vaud Alps: first investigations. 14th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, 18-19 November 2016, Geneva, Switzerland.
Giaccone E., Fratianni S., Mari S., Antognini M., Ambrosi C., Scapozza C., 2016. Le pergélisol au Sud des Alpes Suisses (Tessin): étude de sept glaciers rocheux et relations avec le climat. XXIXe Colloque de l’Association Internationale de Climatologie, 6-9 July 2016, Lausanne – Besançon, Switzerland – France.
Giaccone E., Fratianni S., Ambrosi C., Antognini M., Delaloye R., Lambiel C., Mari S., Scapozza C., 2016. Recent evolution of mountain permafrost in the Southern Swiss Alps: the results of 2006-2015 period. XI International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP), 20-24 June 2016, Potsdam, Germany.
CONTACT
Elisa Giaccone elisa.giaccone at unil.ch
