Editors
- Series Editor
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- Markus Stoffel
- Advisory Editor
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- Wolfgang Cramer
- Urs Luterbacher
- F. Toth
About the Editor
Markus Stoffel was born in Switzerland in 1974. Having passed his
childhood and adolescence in the Valais Alps, he was intrigued to study the
impacts of climate change on mountain environments. He undertook his university
studies at different institutions within Switzerland and holds BSc and MSc
degrees in Physical Geography, a MSc degree in Media and Communication Sciences
and a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland),
as well as a habilitation thesis degree (venia
docendi) from the University of Berne (Switzerland). Since 2010, he also is
a Distinguished Professor (Professor
honoris causa) in Physical Geography of the University Babeş-Bolyai (Romania).
On August 1, 2017, Markus Stoffel was appointed Full Professor
of Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA; www.unige.ch/climate) at the Institute
for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva. He is also the director
of the Swiss Tree-Ring Lab (www.dendrolab.ch)
at the Department of Earth Sciences, and a faculty at the Department F.-A.
Forel for Aquatic and Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva. His
research aims to understand, document and quantify fundamental
environmental processes, and the drivers of change. Much of the research of his
group involves the development of applications of tree-ring techniques and the
use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). His team observes, documents and
analyzes environmental and climatic changes both at the local and the
hemispheric scales and by covering daily to seasonal, decadal, centennial and
millenial timeframes.
In a nutshell, his research is related to climate
change impacts, time-series and dynamics of hydro-geomorphic and earth-surface
processes at altitude and/or high latitudes, as well as on dendroecology and
wood anatomy of trees and shrubs. More particularly, he has been working over
the past few years on the impacts of climatic changes on periglacial mass movements,
the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate (temperature, precipitation),
peatland evolution over the Holocene and its link to hydroclimatic changes, the
effects of climate and global changes on biodiversity, biomass or sequestered
carbon in the Himalayas, Myanmar and the Andes, or on causes and effects of
erosion in badlands or along the Mediterranean coast. As such, the work of his
C-CIA team has contributed to the understanding of the large set of impacts of
environmental and/or climatic changes on humans and societies.
Markus Stoffel has authored more than 270 papers in peer-reviewed
journals, including Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications
or PNAS. He is a co-editor-in-chief
of Geomorphology, and acted as guest editor of Anthropocene,
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Environment International, Journal
of Hydrology, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Science
of the Total Environment. He co-edited two AGLO books dedicated to Tree Rings
and Natural Hazards (2010) and Tracking torrential processes on fans and
cones (2012), in addition to a Treatise on Geomorphology (2014), The
International Encyclopedia of Geography: Cryosphere (2016) and Flood Risk in the Upper
Vistula Basin (2017).