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Scientist
ENAC
IIE
ECOS

Lecturer
ENAC
ENAC-SSIE
SSIE-ENS
Claire Guenat
Ecological Systems Laboratory
birth date: 07.04.1956
nationality: french-swiss

office(s): GRB2402
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 34738
fax: 41 21 693 39 13
MISSION
Teaching :
- SSIE bachelor (Environmental Engineering laboratory; Samples and analysis methods)and SSIE master (Management and restoration of the ecosystems).
- interdisciplinary teaching (Training works and renaturation of rivers and alluvial plains; sites rehabilitation)
- student projects (SIE, ENAC and master)

Research :
- supervising of pHD projects
- publication of research results.

Administration :
- commities (Parc jurassien vaudois, Rive sud du lac, ROSOL,...)
MAIN PUBLICATIONS

E. Samaritani, J. Shrestha, B. Fournier, E. Frossard, F. Gillet, C. Guenat, P. A. Niklaus, N. Pasquale, K. Tockner, E. A. D. Mitchell, and J. Luster. Heterogeneity of soil carbon pools and fluxes in a channelized and a restored floodplain section (Thur River, Switzerland). Hydrology And Earth System Sciences, 15:1757-1769, 2011. [ DOI | Details ]

E. Samaritani, J. Shrestha, B. Fournier, E. Frossard, F. Gillet, C. Guenat, P. A. Niklaus, K. Tockner, E. A. D. Mitchell, and J. Luster. Heterogeneity of soil carbon pools and fluxes in a channelized and a restored floodplain section (Thur River, Switzerland). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 8(1):1059-1091, 2011. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

I. Morier, P. Schleppi, M. Saurer, I. Providoli, and C. Guenat. Retention and hydrolysable fraction of atmospherically deposited nitrogen in two contrasting forest soils in Switzerland. European Journal Of Soil Science, 61:197-206, 2010. [ DOI | Details ]

I. Morier Jaquet, C. Guenat, R. Siegwolf, J. C. Védy, and P. Schleppi. Dynamics of atmospheric N deposition in a temperate calcareous forest soil. Journal of Environmental Quality, 2008. [ DOI | Details ]

I. Morier, P. Schleppi, R. Siegwolf, H. Knicker, and C. Guenat. N-15 immobilization in forest soil: a sterilization experiment coupled with (15)CPMAS NMR spectroscopy. European Journal Of Soil Science, 59:467-475, 2008. [ DOI | Details ]

I. Morier and C. Guenat. Biochange : changements climatiques et forêts de notre région: du lac Léman au Marchairuz. La forêt, 7/8:20-21, 2007. [ DOI | Details | Link ]

G. Bullinger-Weber, R. Le Bayon, C. Guenat, and J. Gobat. Influence of some physicochemical and biological parameters on soil structure in alluvial soils. European Journal of Soil Biology, 43:57-70, 2007. [ DOI | Details | Link ]

E. Temgoua, H. Djeuda Tchapnga, E. Tanawa, C. Guenat, and H.-R. Pfeifer. Groundwater fluctuations and footslope ferricrete soils in the humid tropical zone of Southern Cameroon. Hydrogeological Processes, 19(16):3097-3111, 2005. [ DOI | Details ]

V. Maitre, A.-C. Cosandey, A. Parriaux, and C. Guenat. A methodologoly to estimate the denitrifying capacity of a riparian wetland. Journal of Environmental Quality, 34:707-716, 2005. [ DOI | Details ]

M. Helfing, J.-C. Clement, P. Bienkowski, D. Dowrick, C. Guenat, A. Butturini, S. Topa, G. Pinay, and J. Verhoeven. The role of vegetation and litter in the nitrogen dynamics of riparian buffer zones in Europe. Ecological Engineering, 24:465-482, 2005. [ DOI | Details ]

A. C. Cosandey, C. Guenat, M. Bouzelboudjen, V. Maitre, and R. Bovier. The modelling of soil-process functional units based on three-dimensional soil-horizon cartography, with an example of denitrification in a riparian zone. Geoderma, (112):111-129, 2003. [ DOI | Details ]

C. Guenat, F. Bureau, and F. Charnet. Genèse, diversité et fonctionnement des sols sous la dépendance d'un cours d'eau.: écologie, fonctions et gestion. In Forêts riveraines des cours d'eau, pages 46-71. IDF, Paris, 2003. [ Details ]

A. Cosandey, V. Maitre, and C. Guenat. Temporal denitrification patterns in different horizons of two riparian wetland soils. European Journal of Soil Science, 54(1):25-37, 2003. [ DOI | Details ]

A. Cosandey, V. Maitre, C. Guenat, and J. Védy. Patterns of nitrate attenuation in riparian wetlands. In Proceedings of the second international conference on wetlands &remediation, pages 347-354. Batelle press, 2002. [ Details ]

M. Hefting, J. Clément, P. Bienkowski, D. Dowrick, C. Guenat, A. Butturini, S. Topa, G. Pinay, and J. Verhoeven. The role of vegetation and litter in the nitrogen dynamics of riparian buffer zones in Europe. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Efficiency of Purification Processes in Riparian Buffer Zones, 2001. [ Details ]

M. Santos, C. Guenat, M. Bouzelboudjen, and F. Golay. Three-dimensional GIS cartography applied to the study of the spatial variation of soil horizons in a Swiss floodplain. Geoderma, 97(3-4):351-366, 2000. [ DOI | Details ]

E. Roose, V. Kaboré, and C. Guenat. The zaï practice. a West African traditional rehabilitation system for semiarid degraded lands: a case study in Burkina-Faso. Arid Soil Research and rehabilitation, 13(4):343-355, 1999. [ DOI | Details ]

C. Guenat, F. Bureau, G. Weber, and F. Toutain. Initial stages of soil formation in a riparian zone : importance of biological agents and lithogenic inheritance in the development of soil structure. European Journal of Soil Biology, 35(4):153-161, 1999. [ DOI | Details ]

E. Roose, V. Kaboré, and C. Guenat. Le zaï, un système traditionnel complexe de récupération des terres dégradées en Afrique soudano-sahélienne. ORSTOM actualités, Spécial Erosion(56):38, 1998. [ DOI | Details ]

V. Hallaire, Y. Degoumois, C. Guenat, and P. Curmi. Coupling image analysis and hydrodynamic measuremnts to quantify macropore space for a functional typology of surface crusts. In Soil Micromorphology: studies on soil diversity, diagnostics, dynamics, pages 390-396, Moscow-Wageningen, 1997. [ Details ]

M. Mendonça Santos, C. Guenat, C. Thévoz, and F. Bureau. Impacts of embanking on the soil-vegetation relationships in a prealpine river. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, 6(76):339-348, 1997. [ DOI | Details ]

M. Mendonça-Santos, C. Guenat, C. Thevoz, and F. Bureau. Modifications d'une zone alluviale suite à l'endiguement: approche méthodologique. Géomorphologie, 78(4):365-374, 1997. [ DOI | Details ]

E. Roose, V. Kaboré, and C. Guenat. Le Zaï: Fonctionnement, limites et amélioration d'une pratique traditionnelle africaine de réhabilitation de la végétation et de la productivité des terres dégradées en région soudano-sahélienne (Burkina-Faso). Cahier de l'ORSTOM,, 282(74):159-173, 1996. [ DOI | Details ]

M. Fierz, J. Gobat, and C. Guenat. Evolution de la matière organique de quelques sols alluviaux. Ann. Scienc. Forest., 6:547-559, 1995. [ DOI | Details ]

F. Bureau, C. Guenat, C. Thomas, and J. Védy. Human impacts on alluvial flood plain stretches: effects on soils and soil-vegetation relations. Arch. für Hydrobiol., Suppl.101. Large rivers:147-161, 1995. [ DOI | Details ]

F. Bureau, C. Guenat, K. Huber, and J. Védy. Dynamique des sols et de la végétation en milieu alluvial carbonaté. Ecologie,, 25(4):217-230, 1994. [ DOI | Details ]

C. Guenat and M. Gratier. Ecologie des sols rubéfiés de la région subjurassienne. Bull. Soc. suisse de Pédologie, 12, 1983. [ DOI | Details ]

F. Gillet and C. Guenat. Etude phytosociologique du marais de Porsel. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, 76(3):257-279, 1983. [ DOI | Details | Link ]

Teaching
Environmental Sciences and Engineering


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