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The Alpine region is subject to exacerbated climate changes. Besides, alpine inland waters have long been under intense human exploitation, leading to disturbances in nutrient loadings, global or local pollutions, fishing activities and hydrological regulation for hydropower. Lakes in and around the Alps have been evolving in a context of continuous and intensifying environmental changes over the last 150 years, to which they are responding through non-linear and somewhat unpredictable trajectories.

Our team studies how lakes in and around the Alps have been responding to environmental changes. Our focus is on both biogeochemistry and ecology, covering different space and time perspectives.

We combine paleo-ecological reconstructions from sediment archives, high- and low frequency monitoring data, laboratory experiments and modeling to mechanistically unravel alpines lakes vulnerability and responses in a context of global change.

Team

Marie-Elodie Perga, Associate Professor, P.I.

Nicolas Escoffier, First assistant

Gael Many, SNF Post-doc Fellow

Pascal Perolo, SNF PhD Student

Isabel Herr, PhD Student

Santona Khatun (soon), Faculty post-doc program

 

Former members

Janine Rüegg, former Post-doc Fellow from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research, soon at BTU

Thibault Lambert, former First assistant, now MSC fellow

Rosalie Bruel, former PhD Student, now at IESS Paris

Yann Guenand, now at EDF, France

Marttiina Rantala, former Post-doc fellow from the Swiss Confederation, now at University of Helsinki