Program coordination
Scientific collaborations and leading skills
Organisation skills
Novus workshop 4, at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA (26-28 September 2017).
Laboratory and fieldwork skills
Computer skills
Language skills
- Program Coordinator of Archimedes Institute
Institute of Mathematics andComputer Sciences of Aix-Marseille University (2020-) financed by Amidex Foundation. Director: E. Godard, co-director: X. Roulleau and C. Capponi (300 000 € annual budget). 3 laboratories and about 300 faculty members, partnerships with Toulon University, Century institute and ILCB Institute, private businesses. Programs development and follow up for both research and teaching in Artificial Intelligence, Deep machine learning, Data sciences, Numerical sciences. - Assistant – coordinator of FindTIME project
“Fire, climate, and vegetation change in an oak savanna ecosystem from annual to millennial time scales” (2017-2019) financed by the National Science Foundation. Small Grant Ecosystem panel PI: K. McLauchlan, co-PI: D. Griffin, Senior Personnel: B. Leys, P. Reich, and S. Hobbie ($150 000). 28 faculty members, 5 different countries. Steering committee member, development and coordination of 2 work packages. - Assistant – coordinator of Novus Research Coordination Network
“Biogeochemical consequences of ecosystem change at decadal to millennial timescales.” (2014-2017) financed by the National Science Foundation Ecosystem panel. PI: K. Mclauchlan. 125 membres of 78 institutions from 15 countries. Membre of the steering committee, membre of the decisional committee, development of collaborations.
Scientific collaborations and leading skills
- Collaboration with 12 European researchers from 8 different institutions, and 18 non-European researchers (Canada, and the United States) from 11 different institutions.
- Collaborative work with biogeochemists, modellers, geologists, terrestrial ecosystem ecologists, denrochronologists, limnologists, or paleoecologists.
- Close work with 4 institutions of land management: in France (National Office Forestry), in Italy (Forestry officers of Paneveggio protected area), and in the United States of America (Officers of Konza Prarie Biological Station, Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Sciences; and Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, all part of Long Term Ecological Research program).
Organisation skills
Novus workshop 4, at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA (26-28 September 2017).
- grants and diffusion of the workshop announcement in European and US networks
- Programme of the meetings;
- chair man
- Recon visit;
- Preparation of the scientific facilities and collaborations;
- Diffusion of the workshop announcement in European and US networks;
- Application reviews to fund expenses of external researchers or early career scientists;
- Writing of a funding proposal in the Ecosystem panel of NSF (Small Grant – $150,000).
- Room reservation and preparation of the facilities;
- Programme of the meetings;
- Invitation of guest speakers.
- Room reservation;
- Snack and catering orders;
- Invitations of guest speakers and students;
- Programme of the seminar.
Laboratory and fieldwork skills
- Fieldwork skills: Lead field teams, lake, tree and soil coring, sediment sampling, plant macroremain identification, charcoal extraction and identification.
- Data analyses: big data set, charcoals, plant macroremains, pollen, isotopes and elements.
- Sedimentology: 210Pb, 137Cs, 14C techniques, loss-on-ignition, particle sizes, magnetic susceptibility, X-Ray techniques (fluorescence and diffraction).
Computer skills
- Statistical tools: R software and packages and Matlab (MCAgeDepth and Charanalysis, SEA)
- Analyses : test of significance (parametric and non parametric data), test of correlation, change point, linear model and linear mixed, random forest, cooccurrence network, multivariate (MFA, PCA, NMDS).
- Models: LASS (Landscape Analysis and Simulation Shell software on R), ForClim (capsis 4 platform), Phenofit and PMP (Phenology Modelling Platform)
- Specialized software: WindSeedle (image analyser for charcoal particles), HighPeak (XRD peak identification), CANOCO (multivariate analyses for pollen data, including DCCA), Tilia (plot pollen data).
- Databases: user and/or contributor to the Global Charcoal Database, NEOTOMA, and NOAA databases.
- GIS: Q-GIS
- OS: MacOS / Windows XP and Vista/ computer certificates c2i 1 and 2
- Other: Microsoft Office package; Adobe package
Language skills
- Fluent in French, English (written and spoken).