Benjamin

May

2017

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Last week was a short one. Thursday was off, and in such circumstances, people here usually also take the Friday off, and enjoy a looooong week-end. More explanations about this phenomenon in this video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/0-6sM0vo9Tk

I took this opportunity to work on a rather big project I’m truly dreaming of since years: plotting palynological diagrams with R! Since my Master studies, I’m using Tilia, which I became good at. I can produce complete, elegant diagrams, from scratch, in only a few hours. https://giphy.com/embed/CDJo4EgHwbaPS

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May

2017

Oral communication accepted to the MedPalyno Symposium

On September 2017, I’ll be giving a synthesis talk at the MedPalyno symposium held in Barcelona (Spain). The MedPalyno symposium brings together the French, Italian, and Spanish-speakers palaeo-ecologists. I’ll present (an attempt of) a synthesis of the multi-disciplinary palaeo-environmental studies carried out so far in the High Doubs Valley (France).

Mar

2017

New publication about vertical mobility

A new research paper from my colleagues has been published in Quaternary International! You can find the article here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618216305134

It deals with an exciting topic: vertical mobility in the Central Alps

Aug

2016

New paper on fire/human impact on Central Alpine holocene vegetation

Our last manuscript is now accessible online: http://hol.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/08/05/0959683616658523.abstract?rss=1

This paper deals especially with human activities during the Bronze Age in the Lower Engadine Valley (Central Alps), discussing the use of fire and the production of cereals.

Go get it!

Jun

2016

Coring the Mondsee

This week I’ve been coring two 12-meter long sediment cores from the Mondsee, a lake in a middle of a stunning landscape (see picture) near Salzburg (Austria). Colleagues from Bern (Switzerland) brought all the equipment and savoir-faire, and did most of the job. Thank you so much Sandra, willy and Armin! I was on the platform to help them, as well as Christophe and Gerry (thanks to you too). It was a great and funny adventure, coring a lake was a première for me, I learnt a lot. Next chapter will be the results of the pollen analyses from these sediments…

Here is also a nice paper about the project.

Jun

2016