Dr. Léa Bussière
Léa Bussière is a guest researcher in the group of Hydrology and Climatology. Her area of research is the hydrology of cold environments. After graduating with an engineering diploma (equivalent to a Master degree) in earth and water resources in Bordeaux-INP (Bordeaux, France), she completed a Ph.D. in international cotutelle between the Bordeaux Montaigne university (Bordeaux, France) and the Laval university (Québec, QC, Canada). Her Ph.D. thesis focused on the characterization of permafrost thaw features and their role in the transport of heat and water to the ground, by means of geophysical method and numerical modeling. Now she is starting a collaboration with the Hydrology and Climatology group of the Heidelberg University, to study the impact of climate change on the water cycle in Northern Siberia, by means of satellite-based remote sensing and hydrological modeling.
Research interests
- Permafrost hydrology
- Near-surface geophysics
- Numerical modeling (hydrology, hydrogeology, heat transport)
- Satellite-based remote sensing
Publications
- Bussière, L.*, Schmutz, M., Fortier, R., Lemieux, J.-M. et Dupuy, A. (2022). Nearsurface geophysical imaging of a thermokarst pond in the discontinuous permafrost zone in Nunavik (Québec), Canada. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 33(4):353–369.
- Bussière, L. (2022). Hydrogéophysique des buttes de pergélisol et des mares de thermokarst du Québec nordique et de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine: apports à la compréhension de la paléorecharge des grands aquifères par analogue de terrain actuel [English translation: Hydrogeophysics of permafrost mounds and thermokarst ponds in Northern Quebec and in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region - contributions to understanding the palaeorecharge of large aquifers using present-day field analogue] (Doctoral dissertation, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III; Université Laval (Québec, Canada)). https://theses.hal.science/tel-04016842 and http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/114863
