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The Swiss Alps are the source of major European rivers that pass through large lake basins, which have formed on the Swiss Plateau by glacial erosion. The study of these lakes, which are important drinking water reservoirs, allows improving the understanding of the evolution of the major climate cycles (glaciations / de-glaciation). Stephanie GIRARDCLOS focuses her research on the comparison of several lakes of the Swiss Plateau during the last millennia (PhD thesis of Katarina KREMER, high resolution reflection seismics, sedimentology). She also develops research on sediment dynamics in the short term, such as events linked to floods and earthquakes (particularly in the Valais catchment of Lake Geneva) since these events, which directly affect the surrounding populations, are also recorded in the lacustrine sedimentary archives.
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