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Multi-year time series of daily solute and isotope measurements from three Swiss pre-Alpine catchments

Time series analyses of solute concentrations in streamwater and precipitation are powerful tools for unraveling the interplay of hydrological and biogeochemical processes at the catchment scale. While such datasets are available for many sites around the ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flow and Hydrochemistry in Drainage Networks

Izabela Bujak-Ozga

Despite their high ecological value, non-perennial streams have received less attention than their perennial counterparts. This doctoral thesis addresses this disparity by advancing knowledge on the dynamics of the drainage density and hydrologic processes ...

EPFL2024

Echoing Swiss Coloniality. Land, Archive and Visuality between Brazil and Switzerland

Denise Bertschi

Informed by longstanding artistic practice, this doctoral thesis approaches entanglements of Swiss coloniality in Brazil and Switzerland under the lens of land, archive, and visuality. The enduring legacies of imperial capitalism in the former Colonia Leop ...

EPFL2024

La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) Portrait en 12 villes

Vincent Kaufmann, Martin Schuler, Yves Pedrazzini, Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet, Carmen Fischer, Gian Paolo Torricelli, Renate Albrecher, Franziska Meinherz, Maxime Carl Felder

Et si l'on pensait la Suisse urbaine non pas à partir de ses métropoles, mais de ces villes comme le pays en compte des dizaines ? Celles-ci représentent davantage la norme que l'exception dans le paysage helvétique contemporaine. Pourtant, en Suisse, comm ...

EPFL Press2024

Morphological processes and potential for lacustrine delta restoration

Giovanni De Cesare, Stéphanie Joëlle André, Alexandre Philippe Louis Antoine Fourrier

Most lacustrine deltas are nowadays highly anthropized systems. River training works during past centuries considered rivers mainly as vectors of water and sediments from a point source to a sink. However, numerous problems have been identified by resident ...

2024

Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva

Damien Bouffard, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi, Marco Toffolon, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner, Rafael Sebastian Reiss, Frédéric Charles Soulignac

Freshwater algae exhibit complex dynamics, particularly in meso-oligotrophic lakes with sudden and dramatic increases in algal biomass following long periods of low background concentration. While the fundamental prerequisites for algal blooms, namely ligh ...

Springernature2024

Timelapse: Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake - 2017

Valentin Kindschi

The dataset is a collection of RGB and thermal images of the Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake, taken every minute in 2017. ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Timelapse: Geneva Lake, in front of Chexbres - 2019

Valentin Kindschi

The dataset is a collection of RGB and thermal images of the Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake, taken every minute in 2019. ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Timelapse: Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake - 2019

Valentin Kindschi

The dataset is a collection of RGB and thermal images of the Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake, taken every minute in 2019. ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Timelapse: Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake - 2021

Valentin Kindschi

The dataset is a collection of RGB and thermal images of the Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake, taken every minute in 2021. ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Timelapse: Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake - 2023

Valentin Kindschi

The dataset is a collection of RGB and thermal images of the Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake, taken every minute from January to August 2023. ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Timelapse: Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake - 2022

Valentin Kindschi

The dataset is a collection of RGB and thermal images of the Rhone mouth in Geneva Lake, taken every minute in 2022. ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

The energy crisis in Europa reveals the importance of reliable hydropower as a catalyst and enabler for the clean and safe energy transition

Anton Schleiss

Hydropower has a long tradition in Europe, contributing significantly during the first half of the last century to the welfare and industrial development of most countries across the continent. Today, reaching nearly 650 TWh of annual generation in an aver ...

2023

Patents, War and Peace. The resilience of the international patent order through the First World War

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

By the end of the 19th century, an international order had emerged for patents, allowing business actors to use patents in many countries concurrently, and thus supporting a new phase in the development of industrial capitalism. Centered on Europe in spite ...

2023

Dalmine: From Company Town to Hybridized Productive Habitat

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

The establishment of company towns played a significant role in developing both urban and rural areas in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By combining historical and urban research, this study provides findings about the industry's pol ...

Louvain research institute for Landscape, Archi- tecture, Built environment, UCLouvain2023

Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Maxime Carl Felder

In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious worker ...

2023

Vertical distribution and seasonal dynamics of planktonic cyanobacteria communities in a water column of deep mesotrophic Lake Geneva

Natacha Tofield-Pasche, Stéphane Joost, Tamar Kohn, Charlotte Gisèle Weil, Oliver Michele Selmoni, Anna Carratala Ripolles, Coralie Chappelier, Hannah Elisa Chmiel, Annie Sandrine Guillaume

Background: Temperate subalpine lakes recovering from eutrophication in central Europe are experiencing harmful blooms due to the proliferation of Planktothrix rubescens, a potentially toxic cyanobacteria. To optimize the management of cyanobacteria blooms ...

Frontiers Media SA2023

Numerical simulation of the fate, transport and public health risks of enteric viruses in Lake Geneva

Chaojie Li

Lakes are a fundamental feature of nature with brilliance, profoundness and complexity. Various of physical, chemical and biological changes take place three dimensionally in deep lakes, regulated by complicated boundary conditions. To understand and predi ...

EPFL2023

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

Mathias Lerch

Background: Evaluating the impact of health systems on premature mortality across different countries is a very challenging task, as it is hardly possible to disentangle it from the influence of contextual factors such as cultural differences. In this resp ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Creating the conditions for Western European petroculture: The Marshall Plan, the politics of the OEEC, and the transition from coal to oil

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

In the postwar years, petroleum products pervaded more and more aspects of Western European life. In this article, we study the origins of this pervasive petroculture through the lens of the Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program (ERP), its Refinery Expan ...

2023

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