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Glaciologist - Specialised in paleo-glaciology, glacier and ice-sheet modelling, surface exposure dating, geomorphology, glacial geology, and Quaternary climatology.
Postdoctorate Research Associate at the University of Lausanne, Department of GeoSciences, under the RECONCILE SNSF project.
Email: tancrede.leger@unil.ch
Visit to the Corbassière glacier, Grand Combin massif, Swiss Alps (07/2024)
Sampling a granite erratic boulder for Cosmogenic 10Be surface exposure dating of a Quaternary ice-sheet expansion event in northeastern Patagonia (Argentina)
Research Statement
"Motivated by the desire to study the cryosphere, my research specialises towards better constraining the response of Earth's ice-sheets to past, current and future climate change.
I currently work on reconstructing the late-Quaternary evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet and the European Alpine Ice Field. To do so, I conduct numerical model simulations calibrated on empirical data, to constrain the former dynamics of these large ice bodies.
My research also contributes to mapping and dating the footprints emplaced by continental ice masses and preserved on the modern landscape.
Paleo ice-sheet reconstructions enable us to better understand the complex mechanisms controlling the evolution of both the cryosphere and global climate, and help refine our projections of future cryospheric and environmental change."
Numerical model simulation of the European Alpine Ice field during the last glaciation of the Alps (35 - 18 kyrs BP). Here, we zoom into the region of the Lyon lobe (French Alps). This simulation was conducted with the Instructed Glacier Model (IGM) as part of an Alps-wide model-data comparison study, published in Nature Communications. More visualizations from this work can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhTnndqLZd66b-zrmToU8XTBLVbjCqKQd
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