{"id":6,"date":"2017-10-11T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:47:11","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"About the LAKES’group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What we do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our team studies how lakes in and around the Alps have been responding to environmental changes. Our vision is an interdisciplinary approach. For this, we have merged two poles, one on both biogeochemistry and ecology lead by Marie-Elodie Perga and a second one on aquatic physics lead by Damien Bouffard. This joint approach allows us to tend toward a more holistic approach while 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who we are<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Team Biogeochemistry and Ecology<\/h4>\n\n\n
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Marie-Elodie Perga<\/a>, Full Professor, P.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas Escoffier<\/a>, SNF research scientist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomy Doda<\/a>, first assistant <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabel Herr<\/a>, PhD Student, graduate assistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nischal Devkota<\/a>, PhD student (starting March 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santona Khatun<\/a>, Faculty post-doc program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonas, Woodtli, Msc student<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Aquatic Physics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Damien Bouffard<\/a>, Group leader at EAWAG and Associate Professor ad personam, P.I. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomy Doda<\/a>, first assistant <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former members<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Gael Many<\/a>, SNF Post-doc Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juliette Marot, former Master’s student<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Casellini, former Msc student<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pascal Perolo, formerly SNF PhD Student, now at BEG SA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janine R\u00fcegg, former Post-doc Fellow from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thibault Lambert, former First assistant, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosalie Bruel, former PhD Student, now at OFB France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yann Guenand, now at EDF, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marttiina Rantala, former Post-doc fellow from the Swiss Confederation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u00e9r\u00e9my Keller, former Msc student, now technician at L\u00e9XPLORE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research statement<\/p>\n

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 context of continuous and intensifying environmental changes over the last 150 years, to which they are responding through non-linear and somewhat unpredictable trajectories.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}