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Baptiste Dafflon

Staff Scientist

Building 085B, Room 0111

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-4735

bdafflon@lbl.gov

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Biography

Dr. Baptiste Dafflon is a Staff Scientist in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a member of the Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Geophysics group. His research focuses on improving the predictive understanding of complex environmental systems and involves the inherently trans-disciplinary fields of geophysics, hydrology and biogeochemistry. Some of his current topics of interest include the development of comprehensive strategies for acquiring and integrating multiple sources of ground- and aerial-based information to improve the prediction of soil properties at multiple scales; the development of dense wireless sensor network (WSN) and unmanned aircraft system (UAS)-based approaches to monitor vegetation state, snowpack properties, surface elevation and soil properties; and the estimation of subsurface and surface properties/fluxes using statistical methods or process-based models. Dafflon’s research projects are linked to a variety of environments, including arctic, mountainous and coastal systems as well as agriculture and contaminated sites.  These projects intend to improve the understanding of how integrated processes govern water availability and quality, carbon cycling, agriculture and subsurface system behaviors, and to offer new capabilities for efficient and cost-effective strategies for management, protection and remediation of water resources.

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Research Interests

  • Understanding of subsurface processes (hydrological, physical and biogeochemical)
  • Quantifying interactions between above- and below-ground hydro-biogeochemical processes
  • Improving predictions of groundwater flow and transport processes
  • Geostatistical and numerical methods in hydrology and geophysics
  • Borehole and surface environmental geophysics
  • Electromagnetic methods in geophysics
  • Remote sensing techniques and dense wireless sensor network

Education

  • Ph.D. Geophysics, Institute of Geophysics, University of Lausanne Switzerland, 2005-2009
  • M.S. Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2002-2004
  • B.S. Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2000-2002

Experience

  • Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), 2020-2021
  • Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), 2016-2020
  • Project Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth Sciences Division (ESD), 2013-2016
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth Sciences Division (ESD), 2011-2013
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface (CGISS), Boise State University, Idaho, 2010-2011
  • Research and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Geophysics, University of Lausanne, 2005-2009
  • Civil Service, Institute of Geophysics, University of Lausanne, 2005
  • Civil Service, “Stiftung Umwelteinsatz”, Switzerland, 2004
  • Research Assistant, Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, 2002-2003

Awards

  • Paul Niggli Medal for “original research contributions to the geophysical exploration of aquifers and permafrost environments,” 2013
  • Award (Prix de Faculté) for excellence of the Ph.D thesis, University of Lausanne, 2010
  • Postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), 2009
  • Outstanding Student Paper Award in Hydrology, American Geophysical Union, 2007
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