Climate theses

If you would like to join our team on a doctoral project, please do not hesitate to contact our scientific members here.

Most projects start in spring, but can also be opened at other times of the year.

Theses in progress

Anaëlle ALCAINO

Spatial and temporal dynamics of microplastics in the bay of Marseille: experimental approach and link with modelling

Supervision: Laurence Vidal (CEREGE) and Laetitia Licari (CEREGE)

Alexia ANGELI

Possibilistic ecosystem modelling applied to human evolution

Co-supervision: Doris Barboni (CEREGE), Cédric Gaucherel (INRAE)

Ellyn AURIOL

Study of extreme solar events, solar activity and the geomagnetic field during the last deglaciation using beryllium-10 and Cl-36 measured in the ice borehole at the Talos Dome site (Antarctica)

Supervisors: Mélanie Baroni , Edouard Bard (CEREGE)

Gabriel BERA

Recent geochronology of glaciers in Central Asia

Supervisors: Franck Lavigne (LGP-CNRS), Vincent Rinterknecht (CEREGE)

Paul BOTTÉ

Reconstructing the evolution of Eocene palaeoclimates in southern Eurasia using geological and geochemical tools to better understand past mammal dispersals

Supervisor: Alexis Licht (CEREGE)

Mélanie DAGNEAUX

Water in the northern Mediterranean between the Upper Palaeolithic and the Anthropocene: from natural environmental variability to societal control. Contributions from new lacustrine sites in the Argens basin (Var, France)

Supervisors: Christelle Claude & Helene Bruneton (CEREGE)

Josué DAUVIER

Effect of coccolithophore calcification on δ13

Supervisor: Luc Beaufort(CEREGE)

Virgile DERVIS

Sediment dynamics of the Middle Durance over the course of cycles
glacial/interglacial: paleoclimatic, tectonic and environmental implications

Supervisors: Alexis Nutz and Magali Rizza (CEREGE), Hélène Tissoux (BRGM)

Jérémie DOKO

Vegetation changes in West Africa during the recent Holocene: the opening of the Dahomey Gap in southern Benin as revealed by phytoliths

Supervisors: Anne Alexandre (CEREGE) and Monique Tossou (Abomey Calavi University, Benin)

Mélanie GUARDIOLA

Hydroclimatic dynamics and carbon cycle in the central Congo basin during the Holocene (ORACLE)

Supervisors: Yannick Garcin (CEREGE) and Edouard Bard (CEREGE)

Vincent GUARINOS

Oxygenation variability in the Mediterranean Sea during the last two interglacial periods

Supervisors: Kazuyo Tachikawa and Tom Chalk (CEREGE)

Marine JAUMON

Response of precipitation and dissolution of calcium carbonate of biological origin to environmental changes

Supervisors: Olivier Sulpis (CEREGE) and Steeve Comeau (LOV)

Samuel Anthoni KAYES

Raised fields as markers of past human impact on peatlands in the central Congo basin

Supervisors: Yannick Garcin (CEREGE) & Yannick Bocko (UNMG Brazzaville)

Guillaume LASSUS

Design and development of an automated microscopy system applying the microfluidic approach for the identification of marine plankton and species sorting of coccolithophore microfossils

Supervision: Luc Beaufort (CEREGE)

Clément LEBON

Paleoclimatic reconstruction since the Last Glacial Maximum in Ecuador based on glacier-climate modelling and glacier chronologies

Supervision: Deborah Verfaillie (CEREGE) and Vincent Jomelli (CEREGE)

Yohan LICHTERFELD

Reconstitution of modes of climate variability in the Indian Ocean on seasonal and interannual scales: calibration and application to the Pleistocene

Supervisors: Guillaume Leduc and Clara Bolton (CEREGE)

Elise LUCIANI

Dynamics of the Central American monsoon during the Late Pleistocene: contributions of molecular biomarker isotopy

Supervisors: Guillaume Leduc (CEREGE) and Edouard Bard (CEREGE)

Charlotte MENTION

Respective roles of climatic and anthropogenic changes on the opening of the African rainforest during the recent Holocene: a multi-proxy analysis combining ecology, isotope geochemistry and modelling

Supervisors: Christelle Hély (ISE-M) and Julie Aleman (CEREGE)

Faranah MEDERBEL

Dynamics of the African tropical forest in response to changes in climate and human activities over the last few thousand years

Supervisors: Yannick Garcin (CEREGE) & Laurent Brémond (ISEM Montpellier)

Eah OPITZ

Sub-centennial variability of the hydro-gravitational hazard in the southern French Alps, evolution and mitigation factors

Supervisors: Elodie Brisset & Laurence Vidal (CEREGE), Frédéric Guiter (IMBE)

Erwan PINEAU

Stability/Instability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: What can we learn from the past and what were the consequences for the oceanic carbon sink?

Supervisors: Yannick Donnadieu (CEREGE), Camille Lique (LOPS, Brest)

Océane POLLET

CO-MET - From archaeological sediments to meteorites; interdisciplinary study of organic compounds through the development of an innovative metabolomics approach.

Supervisors: Thibaut Devièse (CEREGE) & Vassilissa Vinogradoff (PIIM)

Perrine POIRIER

Impact of global climatic and tectonic forcings on landscape dynamics in the Turkana Depression (Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia) during the Plio-Pleistocene: what local responses to global change?

Supervision: Vincent Godard and Alexis Nutz (CEREGE)

Louisa SLAMA

Interactions between environmental forcings and the evolution of calcareous plankton in intertropical oceans during the Quaternary.

Supervisors: Baptiste Sucheras-Marx and Thomas Chalk (CEREGE)

Lou SPANNEUT

Elucidating feeding behaviour in the face of climate change during the Late Pleistocene. Development of an innovative biomolecular approach.

Supervisors: Thibaut Devièse (CEREGE), Gwenaëlle Goude (LAMPEA)

Amélie SURMONT

Study of the life cycle of microplastics in the ocean using in situ and ex situ approaches: the Marseilles coastline as a pilot site

Supervisors: Laurence Vidal, Jerome Labille (CEREGE)

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