Vanessa Py-Saragaglia - Main research programmes

Vanessa PY-SARAGAGLIA

  • Archaeobotanist
  • CNRS Research Scientist (CN)

As principal investigator or co‑investigator:

  • 2020-2022 - European project IRIS: “Inspiring rural heritage: sustainable practices to protect and conserve upland landscape and memories” (JPI Cultural Heritage H2020: “JPICH Conservation, Protection and Use Call”), “Principal researcher” (France), Project leader, Salvidio Sebastiano, University of Genoa, Italy;
  • 2019-2022 - BENDYS: “The last European old‑growth (‘subnatural’) fir‑beech forests: a long‑term and global study for their better understanding, conservation and management”, principal investigator, ANR JCJC CE03 Human‑Environment Interactions, 2019 call;
  • 2018-2019 - TRANSYLVE : “Forest trajectories and dynamics of the Haut‑Vicdessos through the interdisciplinary study of stands, their management and historical wood harvesting”, co‑investigator with Sylvain Burri (TRACES UMR 5608), Labex DRIIHM, OHM Haut‑Vicdessos;
  • 2017-2019 - FORETEXIL : “The old forests of Maramureș (Eastern Carpathians) facing intensive forest exploitation: emergency plan for a global study with a view to their preservation and sustainable management”, principal investigator, “Défi OASIC” MITI CNRS;
  • 2013-2018 - FODYNA (1‑2‑3‑4‑5‑6): “Past forests, dynamics and recolonisation processes through the study of historical mining and metallurgical activities of the Haut‑Vicdessos”, principal investigator, Labex DRIIHM, OHM Haut‑Vicdessos;
  • 2017 - TAXUS : “Holocene history of a relict species in the Pyrenees (TAXUS baccata L.)”, co‑investigator with Mélanie Saulnier (U. Prague/GEODE UMR 5602), GEODE exploratory project
  • 2016-2017 - CHARINTER-Bernadouze (Labex DRIIHM) : “Charcoal considered as a key for an interdisciplinary study of Holocene anthropic, forest and pedo‑geomorphological dynamics around the Bernadouze peat bog”, principal investigator, Labex DRIIHM, OHM Haut‑Vicdessos, funding of a one‑year post‑doctoral contract carried out by Mélanie Saulnier;
  • 2016 - MinAlps, principal investigator of a GEODE exploratory project;
  • 2011-2016 - interdisciplinary network MinAhm “Mining and Anthropisation of the European and trans‑Mediterranean high mountain”, principal investigator of 2 MSHS‑T projects and one MSH Network project.

As a participant:

  • 2021 - FRET : “Forests on the water: wood harvesting in the Luchon–Saint‑Béat valleys and their floating down the Garonne to Toulouse (13th–18th c.).” Interdisciplinary project ZA PYGAR, project leaders Sylvain Burri (TRACES UMR 5608) and Vincent Labbas (GEODE UMR 5602);
  • 2021 - GRESICHARB : “Spatio‑temporal dynamics of ancient charcoal production in the Grésigne forest (Tarn).” Interdisciplinary project ZA PYGAR, project leaders Nicolas Poirier (TRACES UMR 5608) and Vanessa Py‑Saragaglia (GEODE UMR 5602);
  • 2020 - SOINPYR : “Treating herds with vegetal tar in the Pyrenees during Late Antiquity.” APEX MSHS‑T 2020, project leader Sylvain Burri (TRACES UMR 5608);
  • 2019 - COMPAS-MED-PAT : “Pastoral commons of Mediterranean mountains and heritage‑making processes.” APEX MSHS‑T 2019, project leader Pablo Dominguez (GEODE UMR 5602);
  • 2018 - SAFE NATURE : “Characterisation of ancient and heritage forests of the Romanian Carpathians to better manage and preserve them.” APEX MSHS‑T 2018, principal investigator Cécile Brun (GEODE UMR 5602);
  • 2018 - URGENSES URGENSES (URGENce Systèmes socio‑ÉcologiqueS). Emerging projects 2018, INRAE funding, SAD department, principal investigator Sylvie Ladet (Dynafor, INRAE);
  • 2017-2018 - CHARCOFAUNA : “Charcoal kilns: an historical filter of soil fauna communities?” OHM Haut‑Vicdessos Labex DRIIHM funding, coordinator B. Pey (ECOLAB UMR 5245), co‑investigator with Laure Gandois and Charles Gers (ECOLAB UMR 5245);
  • 2017-2018 - INSPYR : “Palaeo‑entomological and ecological research on insects of the Pyrenees.” OHM Haut‑Vicdessos Labex DRIIHM funding, project leader Pierre Moret (TRACES UMR 5608);
  • 2017-2018 - Archaeological excavations Cirque de Troumouse‑2: a study of high‑mountain agro‑silvicultural practices at the beginning of the Bronze Age. OHM Haut‑Vicdessos Labex DRIIHM funding, coordinator Guillaume Saint‑Sever (TRACES UMR 5608);
  • 2015-2017 - ABIES : “Historical dynamics of fir in the charcoal‑burned forests of the Vicdessos.” OHM Haut‑Vicdessos, Labex‑DRIIHM funding, project leader Jean‑Paul Métailié (GEODE UMR 5602);
  • 2016 - INSPYRAND. Réseau des MSH funding (PEPS project), project leader Pierre Moret (TRACES UMR 5608);
  • 2012-2017 - Scheduled excavation of the Vallauria Mine (Alpes‑Maritimes). Holder of the excavation permit: Bruno Ancel (TRACES UMR 5608 and municipal cultural service of L’Argentière‑La Bessée), funding from the Ministry of Culture, Neige et Merveilles, Mercantour National Park, Europe.
  • 2012 - Scheduled excavation of the Faravel mine (Hautes‑Alpes) as holder of the scheduled excavation permit, funding from the Ministry of Culture and GEODE lab.