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AVATAR
Team Profiles
Olivier Evrard
![Olivier Evrard](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_evrard.jpg?1689759266)
Role in Avatar: PI together with Christine Alewell
Main Expertise: soil erosion and sediment/contaminant transfers in river systems using a multi-proxy approach (including fallout radionuclides, geochemistry, colour, organic matter properties, environmental DNA,…)
Christine Alewell
![Christine Alewell](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_alewell.jpg?1689758461)
Role in Avatar: PI together with Olivier Evrard
Main Expertise: soil degradation assessment with isotopic tracers (radionuclides, stable isotopes, component specific isotopes), soil erosion modelling, soil biogeochemical and nutrient fluxes
Pierre Sabatier
![Pierre Sabatier](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_sabatier.jpg?1689593758)
Role in Avatar: PI of EDYTEM partner and Responsible for WP2 about lake sediment profiles
Main Expertise: Lake sediments, short-lived radionuclides for chronology, sedimentological and geochemical proxies, paleoenvironment, Earth Critical Zone
Olivier Cerdan
![Olivier Cerdan](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_cerdan.jpg?1689758461)
Role in Avatar: Co coordination of WP3 and WP4
Main Expertise: Soil science, Soil erosion modelling, geomorphology, Rivers, Sediments, Land Use Change, Global Change
Floriane Guillevic
![Floriane Guillevic - envgeo](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_guillevic.jpg?1689758461)
Role in Avatar: PostDoc
Main Expertise: Trace metal contaminant in soil and lake sediment, metal transfer processes into the environment, stable isotopes.
Gerald Dicen
![Gerald Dicen - envgeo](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_dicen.jpg?1689758461)
Role in Avatar: PhD student
Main Expertise: fallout radionuclides, stable isotopes, land degradation
Amaury Bardelle
![Amaury Bardelle - LSCE](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_Bardelle.jpg?1689759266)
Role in Avatar: PHD entitled “Reconstructing sediment transfers in large agricultural basins of South America during the Anthropocene through the coupling of soil erosion models and sediment core analyses”
Main Expertise: Soil sciences and ecosystemic services
Katrin Meusburger
![Katrin Meusburger - avatar](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_Meusburger.jpg?1689593757)
Role in Avatar: Project partner
Main Expertise: Stable isotopes and fallout radionuclides as soil, sediment and water tracers - Environmental modelling and regionalization
Anthony Foucher
![Anthony Foucher - LCSE](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_foucher.jpg?1689759266)
Role in Avatar: Soil/sediment cores collect and analyses
Main Expertise: Paleoenvironmental reconstructions using lake sequences, soil erosion and sediment export to rivers, sedimentary DNA, catchment monitoring
Rosalie Vandromme
![Rosalie Vandromme - brgm](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_vandromme.jpg?1689758461)
Role in Avatar: WaterSed modeling, post-doctoral supervision
Main Expertise: Soil erosion modelling, geomorphology, soil and rock mechanics
Fabien Arnaud
![Fabien Arnaud - edytem](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_arnaud.jpg?1689593758)
Role in Avatar: collection of legacy data, lake sediment sampling strategy and realisation, expert in sedimentology and geochronology
Main Expertise: reconstruction of past (10 to 10,000 years) environmental dynamics (hydrological patterns, erosion, weathering, pollutants dispersal, biodiversity changes) under geodynamic, climate and human forcing using lake sediment records.
Axel Birkholz
![Axel Birkholz - envgeo](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_birkholz.jpg?1689758461)
Role in Avatar: Technician
Main Expertise: Application of compound-specific stable isotopes of lipid biomarker to assess soil erosion, organic geochemistry, soil and lake sediment sampling, sample preparation
Jérôme Poulenard
![Jérôme Poulenard - edytem](/fileadmin/user_upload/duw/UGW/avatar/team/a_Poulenard.jpg?1689857360)
Role in AVATAR: Soil sampling, Soil and lake sediments relationships
Main Expertise: Soil genesis, Soil erosion, Sediment sources tracing, Infrared spectroscopy