PIÉGAY Hervé Research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) Address UMR 5600 EVS / Site ENS - LSH 15 Parvis René Descartes Bureau R. 241 - Bat. Recherche BP 7000 69342 Lyon cedex 07 – FRANCE Mail : herve.piegay@ens-lsh.fr Phone : 33 (0)4 37 37 63 51 Fax : 33 (0)4 37 37 63 47

Research topics

Title : Fluvial geomorphology

Keywords : Riparian forest, contemporary channel changes, human impacts, dynamics of woody debris, remote sensing, fluvial system, river management and restoration

Current research interests

• Contemporary channel changes (mainly narrowing) due to afforestation and damming
• Bedload transport measurement using PIT-tags and floodplain sedimentation (Radionuclide activity, dendrogeomorphology)
• Cascading effects of human impacts on  channel forms, riparian tree growth and plant diversity
• Caracterisation of fluvial features and grain morphometry from remote sensing
• Dynamic of large wood in the hydrographic networks
• River restoration and management (monitoring, planning)

Awards

• 1996 Lyon Young Scholar Price (Humanities)
• 1996 Henry Milon Prize, French Hydrotechnic Society (PhD distinction)
• 1998 CNRS Bronze Medal (distinction for an international scientific activity)

Publications

More than 80 MS published in peer review journals and edited books

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International cooperation and scientific projects

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Administrative tasks 

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Teaching activities

• In charge of teaching courses at ENS-LSH and in the Universities of Lyon 1, Lyon 2 and Lyon 3 (undergraduate and master level courses)
  
  • Management of hydrosystems,
  • fluvial geomorphology,
  • hydrology,
  • natural hazard,
  • river restoration and regulation,
  • concepts and methods in fluvial geomorphology,
  • introduction to field survey and statistics
• Supervisor of Master and PhD dissertations (Cotutelle grant)

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