Project: 

Climate change impacts on river dynamics : using environmental seismology to understand ice-related sediment transport and erosion

My research objectives:

In today's climate warming context, river-ice dynamics are changing, yet our understanding of ice effects on river morphology is limited. To overcome the difficulties of field work on thin ice, this project aims at using environmental seismology to describe and quantify sediment transport and bank erosion processes due to ice over the seasons.

Last News (Newsletter #5 - Fall/Winter 2024): 

In September, I moved to Grenoble for my 6-month « seismic immersion » secondment, working with my co-supervisor Florent Gimbert. I’m currently carrying out a flume experiment to investigate seismic signals from pressurized flows under river ice. With great help from Hervé Bellot and Alexis Buffet at INRAE, we built a flume from a 7m long transparent 10cmx10cm PVC tube. This tube represents an ice-covered river or subglacial channel. The idea is to compare the seismic signals from free-surface flow (when the water doesn’t touch the top of the tube) and pressurized flow (when the tube is pressurized) for a given discharge.