Dr. Adrien Favillier
Curriculum Vitae
Adrien is a dendrochronologist interested about (1) the impact of the Climate Warming on mass movement occurences, especially snow avalanches, (2) debris flows and (3) flash floods, using paleoproxies. His most recent collaborations focus mainly on improving dendrogeomorphic analysis in order to reconstruct past snow avalanche events and to identify robust trends in the snow avalanche activity at the regional scale.
Adrien received a Bachelor in environmental geography in 2012, and a Master in physical geography in 2014, from the Grenoble Alpes University. He was awarded a PhD in Physical Geography by the Clermont Auvergne University in 2019. In his doctoral work, he investigated the impacts of Climate Change on the snow avalanche activity in the Alps.
Adrien is a post-doc at the University of Geneva’s Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), hired by the Departement of Earth Sciences.
Research interests
- Dendrogeomorphology: Tree-ring based reconstructions of avalanche activity
- Dendroclimatology: De-trending, tree-ring-based climate reconstructions
- Paleoclimatology: Large-scale multi-proxy reconstructions over the Holocene.
Selected Publications
Mainieri R., Favillier A., Lopez-Saez J., Eckert N., Zgheib T., Morel P., Saulnier M., Peiry J.-L., Stoffel M., Corona C. (2020). Impacts of land-cover changes on snow avalanche activity in the French Alps. Anthropocene 30, 13. doi: 10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100244
de Bouchard d’Aubeterre G., Favillier A., Mainieri R., Lopez-Saez J., Eckert N., Saulnier M., Peiry J.-L., Stoffel M., Corona C. (2019). Tree-ring reconstruction of snow avalanche activity: Does avalanche path selection matter? Science of The Total Environment 684, 496–508. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.194
Favillier A., Guillet S, Trappmann D., Morel P., Lopez-Saez J., Eckert N., Zenhäusern G., Peiry J.-L., Stoffel M., Corona C. (2018). Spatio-temporal maps of past avalanche events derived from tree-ring analysis: A case study in the Zermatt valley (Valais, Switzerland). Cold Regions Science and Technology, 154, 9–22. doi: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2018.06.004
Favillier A., Guillet S., Morel P., Corona C., Lopez-Saez J., Eckert N., Ballesteros Cánovas J.A., Peiry J.-L., Stoffel M. (2017). Disentangling the impacts of exogenous disturbances on forest stands to assess multi-centennial tree-ring reconstructions of avalanche activity in the upper Goms Valley (Canton of Valais, Switzerland). Quaternary Geochronology, 42, 89–104. doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2017.09.001
Favillier A., Mainieri R., Lopez-Saez J., Berger F., Stoffel M., Corona C. (2017). Dendrogeomorphic assessment of rockfall recurrence intervals at Saint Paul de Varces, Western French Alps. Géomorphologie, 23 (2), 109–119. doi: 10.4000/geomorphologie.11681
Dumas D. et Favillier A. (2017). Disparition du delta intérieur du Drac et naissance de la presqu’ïle grenobloise : signature de la fin du Petit Age Glaciaire. Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography. doi: 10.4000/cybergeo.27976
Corona C., Lopez-Saez J., Favillier A., Mainieri R., Eckert N., Trappmann D., Stoffel M., Bourrier F., Berger F. (2016). Modeling rockfall frequency and bounce height from three-dimensional simulation process models and growth disturbances in submontane broadleaved trees. Geomorphology, 281, 66–77. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.12.019
Favillier A., Lopez-Saez J., Corona C., Trappmann D., Toe D., Stoffel M., Rovéra G., Berger F. (2015). Potential of two submontane broadleaved species (Acer opalus, Quercus pubescens) to reveal spatiotemporal patterns of rockfall activity. Geomorphology 246, 35–47. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.06.010