Rodolphe Schlaepfer
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Professor Emeritus
rodolphe.schlaepfer@epfl.ch +41 21 693 57 71 http://personnes.epfl.ch/rodolphe.schlaepfer
Citizenship: Swiss
Birth date: 22.06.1940
Chargé de ccours
Experimental Design and Data Analysis with RFields of expertise
Mission
Statistical support for Master and PhD StudentsCurrent work
- Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)(Experimental Design and Data Analysis with R) - Lecturer in Statistics at the Bernise University for Applied Science,Department of wood engineering - Member of the Appeal Commission of the Domain of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technolgy - Member of FSC International and FSC Switzerland - Free lance Consultant (project management, sustainable use of natural resources, ecosystem approach, landscape approach, statistical methods, experimental design, sampling techniques, research policy) - Member of the IUCN Commission for Ecosystem Management - Member of the Federal Commission Idane ForestBiography
Examples of international experience: - Research project in Indonesia (Impact of forest exploitation on the ecological quality of rivers) - Research project in Columbia (Impacts of petroleum exploitation on rivers and landscapes) - Teaching at the University of Antananarivo (Sustainable management of natiral resources) - Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Switzerland, France, UK Scientific education: - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Forestry), - University Laval Quebec (Forest inventory and Statistics), - University of Edinburgh (Statistics, Biometry), - Oregon State University (Landscape ecology, Forest ecology). Professional career: - Statstician at Ciba-Geigy Basel(1969-1975), - Professor for Statistics and Physics at the Swiss Engineering School for Agriculture Zollikofen (1975-1982), - Professor for Forest Management and Forest Biometry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (1982-1987), - Director general of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensorf and Professor for Forest Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zürich (1987-1996), - Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy Lausanne (1997-2005) - From 2005: Honory Professsor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneConsulting
Director of ECHO-Power, consulting for environmental, ecological, statistical and managerial challenges Consultant for In-Finitude, Activities: - project management - project evaluation - moderation of workshops and seminars - animation of training courses - design and analysis of experiments and surveys - analysis of data - reporting the state of scientific knowledge Domains: - sustainable management of biological resources, including forest resources - criteria and indincators for sustainable development - landscape approach - ecosystem approach - conservation of biodiversity - restoration of degraded ecological systems - statistical methods, including sampling techniquesProfessional course
Research scientist
Forest Growth
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Research, Birmensdorf
1967
Statistician
Statistical Division
Ciba-Geigy, Basel
1969-1976
Professor for Statistics and Physics
Statistics and Physics
Swiss Engineering School for Agronomy
1976-1982
Professor for Forest Management
Chair of Forest Management
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Z�rich
1982-1987
Professor for Forest Science and Director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
Swiss Federal Institute of technology in Z�rich (ETHZ), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
1987-1996
Professor and Director
Ecosystem Management
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
1997-2005
Education
Forest Engineer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
1964
Master in Science
Forest Inventory and Forest Ecology
Universit� Laval, Qu�bec
1966s
Diploma in Statistics
Biometry
University of Edinburgh
1969
Publications
Selected publications
E. Zuercher, R. Schlaepfer, M. Conedera and F. Giudici Trees-Structure and Function, 24, p. 31-41, 2010 |
Looking for differences in wood properties as a function of the felling date: lunar phase-correlated variations in the drying behavior of Norway Spruce (Picea abies Karst.) and Sweet Chestnut (Castan |
Zanini, Flavio; Klingemann,Anna; Schlaepfer, Rodolphe;Schmidt, Benedikt R. Can. J. Zoo. 86: 692-699 (2008) |
Landscape effects on anuran pond occupancy in agricultural countryside: barrier-based buffers predict distributions better than circular buffers |
Schlaepfer Rodolphe in Forest Landscape Restoration in Central and Northern Europe. Veltheim, T. and Pajari, B (eds). EFI Proceedings No 53. 2005 |
Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Management as Fundaments of Forest Landscape Restoration |
Luyet, V. Rousseau, A.N., Schlaepfer, R., Villeneuve, J.-P. Vecteur Environnement, Novembre 2005: 36-45 |
Gouvernance participative dans la gestion int�gr�e de l'eau par bassin versant au Qu�bec: Etat des lieux et r�flexions. |
Reinhard, M., Rebetez, M., Schlaepfer, R. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Published online, March 31, 2005 |
Recent climate change: Rethinking drought in the context of Forest Fire Research in Ticino, South of Switzerland |
Schlaepfer, Rodolphe; B�tler, Rita Revue Foresti�re Fran�aise, 2004 (5): 431-444 |
Crit�res et indicateurs de la gestion des ressources foresti�res: Prise en compte de la complexit� et de l'approche �cosyst�mique |
B�tler, Rita; Angelstam Per; Schlaepfer, Rodolphe. Ecological Bulletins 51 (2004): 219-232 |
Quantitative snag targets for the three-toed woodpecker Pico�des tridactylus |