Emmanuel CHAPRON

Address

Maison de la Recherche, Jean Jaurès University 5, Allées A. Machado – 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 1

Phone

05 61 50 37 57

Email

emmanuel.chapron@univ-tlse2.fr

Personal Website

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emmanuel-Chapron

Since 2014, my teaching has been carried out mainly in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment (GAE) within the UFR SES (Sciences, Space and Society), combining courses in Year 2 of the Bachelor’s degree, Year 3 of the Bachelor’s degree, Master 1 GEP/GAED (current track: Geography, Planning, Environment and Development) and Master 2 GEP/GAED. 
These courses at the Bachelor’s level (Year 2 and Year 3) deal with an introduction to the components and organisation of natural environments and to environmental analysis techniques.
At the Master’s level, these courses address environmental and landscape changes. They cover different aspects of physical geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences and climatology.

I also teach Quaternary palaeoclimates and palaeo‑environments to Master 1 students in the ASE2P programme (Arts, Societies and Environments of Prehistory and Protohistory) and to Year 3 Archaeology students in the UFR HAA / Department of Art and Archaeology.

Since 2017, I have taught a general introduction to Geography (physical, human and social) to international students in the SHS preparatory programme (run by the UFR LLCE and the DEFLE department) who wish to enter a French university programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Bachelor’s Year 1 or Master’s Year 1 level.

Since 2020, I have given series of lectures for retired participants enrolled in the Université du Temps Libre (UTL) at UT2J, dealing with natural hazards (volcanism, tsunamis) and climate change.

My research in sedimentology and geomorphology in mountain lakes (Alps, Andes, Pyrenees, Scandinavia) and fjords (Norway, Canada, Chile, Kerguelen) illustrates the considerable impact of the variability of the continental water cycle on Earth during the last climatic cycle in the hydrosystems of mountain ranges.
The ongoing climate warming and the multiple disturbances of natural environments associated with the entry of our planet into the Anthropocene have also led me to develop methods for monitoring, surveying and analysing natural lakes (of glacial, karstic and volcanic origin) and artificial lakes (dams, gravel pits, agricultural ponds). With this objective, I have contributed to the development of limnogeology (study of the geological history of lakes) and limnogeography (study of lacustrine geosystems) by applying an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to lake sediment infill—whatever their origin and size—based on acoustic mapping (bathymetry, sediment echo‑sounder) and the sampling of sediment sequences in order to determine the rate and nature of lake sediment infilling (in relation to climate, tectonics and human activities).

Coordination and involvement in research projects :

• Labex DRIIHM CNRS‑INEE : Human‑Environment Observatory (OHM) Pyrenees led at GEODE (coordination of projects since 2010 (EMPAL, ALTOS, ELECTREAU) and since 2019 the D‑GLAP project (Dynamics of glaciers and high‑altitude lakes of the Pyrenees) and the NéoPyrénées project (New Pyrenean lakes and glaciers),

• ANR project PESTIPOND : Role of ponds in the transfer and impact of pesticides in surface waters of the critical zone in agricultural environments (2019–2021);

• European Interreg POCTEFA – Pyrenean Climate Change Observatory (OPCC) involving Andorran, Spanish and French teams (REPLIM project (2014–2020): The network of observatories of sensitive ecosystems (lakes, peatlands) to climate change in the Pyrenees),
   
• CNRS Research Workshop Zone Pyrénées Garonne (ZA PYGAR), coordination of the GALAC d’Oo project (2020) and the NEOGALAC project (2022) focused on the study of natural and artificial lake infilling in the Upper Garonne watershed.
   
• Emerging project of the GEODE laboratory in 2022: LIMNOS project (Hydrological, geomorphological and sedimentological monitoring of the Ramée and Barbazan lakes: 2 pilot sites for the development of instrumentation for natural and artificial lakes at GEODE).
   
• PCR Archives of a cave. From Palaeolithic palaeoenvironmental and archaeological archives to excavation archives (Mas d’Azil cave, Ariège) (2021–2025)
   
• ANR TRANSPYR : Rethinking the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition: from human migrations to territorial settlement patterns during MIS3 through the example of the Pyrenees (2022–2028)
   
• BRGM Scientific R&D Programme : Exploration of aquifer potential in the middle/upper Garonne valley (2025–2028)

A professional career in geosciences composed of four stages :

• 1996 - 2001 : Research in lacustrine sedimentology on the reconstruction of long‑term environmental and climatic changes (PhD, University of Lille 1; Post‑doctorate at RCMG, University of Ghent (Belgium); trainee Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Orléans, CNU 36).
   
• 2002 - 2007 : Research at ETH Zurich in Earth Sciences on the signature of abrupt events in lacustrine and marine sedimentary environments (tenured Lecturer seconded from the University of Orléans).
   
• 2007 - 2014 : Lecturer in environmental geosciences at the University of Orléans (CNU 36), studying hydrosystems mainly exposed to natural hazards.
   
• 2014 - Present: Full Professor in Physical Geography (CNU 23) at the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès (UT2J), studying in the GEODE laboratory (UMR 5602 CNRS‑UT2J) hydrosystems largely exposed to human activities and climate change.
  I am also involved in geoarchaeology and in the reconstruction of palaeolandscapes and natural hazards (volcanism, seismicity, torrentiality) since the first modern humans occupied the northern Pyrenees, the Western Alps and the surroundings of the Massif Central. I am involved in the development and calibration of new environmental sensors: (i) compact subaquatic acoustic sounders to measure water and sediment volumes in lakes (natural or artificial), and (ii) satellite altimetry of water bodies to determine the variability of the elevation (and therefore the volumes) of water bodies and thus the variability of the water cycle in continental areas. On the altimetry side, I contribute to the instrumentation of French mountain water bodies in order to calibrate the measurements of the new SWOT (Surface Water & Ocean Topography) satellite launched by CNES (Toulouse) and NASA in mid‑December 2022.

Administrative and teaching responsibilities at UT2J : 

• 2015 - 2020 : Elected representative of Full Professors on the laboratory council of UMR GEODE (Environmental Geography), CNRS‑UT2J
• 2016 - 2021 : Director of the Master’s programme “Geography of Environmental and Landscape Changes (GEP)”, UFR Sciences Espaces Société, GEA Department, University Toulouse Jean Jaurès (UT2J)
• 2019 - 2021 :Director of the “Dynamics of Mountain Environments (DYNEM)” track of the Master’s programme “Geography, Planning, Environment, Development (GAED)”, GEA Department, University Toulouse Jean Jaurès (UT2J)
• 2017 - Present : Invited member of the scientific committee of the PANGEE platform of LAFARA (Low Radioactivity Measurement Laboratory), coordinated by EDF and the Midi‑Pyrénées Observatory (OMP) of the University of Toulouse, involving UMR LEGOS, GET and CRBE.
• 2020 - Present : Head of the “sedimentology & measurements” and “drilling” facilities of the PANGEME platform (Palaeoenvironment, geoarchaeology & environmental metrology) at UT2J.