Anthony Foucher Equipe 'GEochimie Des Impacts' / Reseach team on 'Geochemistry of Impacts' (+33) (0)1.69.08.77.40 (+33) (0)1.69.08.77.16 ORCID: 0000-0002-4844-7886

Fonction / Position

Chercheur CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives) / Researcher at CEA (French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission)

Sujets de recherche / Research issues

• Reconstitutions paléoenvironnementales à partir d’archives lacustres / Paleoenvironmental reconstructions using lake sequences
• Erosion des sols et transferts de sédiments vers les rivières /Soil erosion and sediment export to rivers
• Traçage sédimentaire à partir de radionucléides / Radionuclides sediment fingerprinting
• Instrumentation de bassin versant / Catchment monitoring
• ADN environnementale / Environmental DNA
• Feux de forêt / Wildfire

Carottage de l'étang du Louroux (France): érosion des sols durant l'Anthropocène/ Coring of the Louroux pond (France): soil erosion during the Anthropocène

 

Publications scientifiques / Scientific publications

• Foucher, A et al., (2023) El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-driven hypersedimentation in the Poechos Reservoir, northern Peru, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
• Foucher, A et al., (2023) Inexorable land degradation due to agriculture expansion in South American Pampa, Nature Sustainability
• Evrard O. et al., (2022) Improving the design and implementation of sediment fingerprinting studies: Summary and outcomes of the TRACING 2021 Scientific School, Journal of Soils and Sediments
• Chaboche P.A. et al., (2022) 240Pu/239Pu signatures allow refining the chronology of radionuclide fallout in South America, STOTEN
• Sellier, V., (2021) Combining colour parameters and geochemical tracers to improve sediment source discrimination in a mining catchment (New Caledonia, South Pacific Islands), Soil
• Foucher, A et al., (2021) A worldwide meta-analysis (1977–2020) of sediment core dating using fallout radionuclides including ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb_xs. Earth System Science Data
• Chapron, E. et al., (2021) Evaluating Holocene natural hazards in the French Massif Central from a regional lake sediment approach. Quaternary International.
• Foucher, A et al., (2021) Deciphering human and climatic controls on soil erosion in intensively cultivated landscapes after 1950 (Loire Valley, France). Anthopocene.
• Grangeon, T et al., (2021) Les observatoires du ruissellement: comprendre les processus pour améliorer les modélisations. La Houille Blanche.
• Foucher, A. et al., (2020) Persistence of environmental DNA in cultivated soils: implication of this memory effect for reconstructing the dynamics of land use and cover changes. Scientific Reports.
• Foucher, A et al., (2020) Regional trends in eutrophication across the Loire river basin during the 20th century based on multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstructions. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment.
• Evrard, O et al., (2020) A global review of sediment source fingerprinting research incorporating fallout radiocesium (137Cs). Geomorphology.
• Foucher, A. et al., (2019) A quick and low-cost technique to identify layers associated with heavy rainfall in sediment archives during the Anthropocene. Sedimentology.
• Foucher, A. et al., (2019) Erosional response to land abandonment in rural areas of Western Europe during the Anthropocene: A case study in the Massif-Central, France. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ.
• Evrard, O. et al., (2019) Using spectrocolourimetry to trace sediment source dynamics in coastal catchments draining the main Fukushima radioactive pollution plume (2011–2017). J Soils Sediments.
• Foucher, A. et al., (2017) Increase of erosion source contributions to rivers and lakes (1950 2010): The case of the Louroux Pond (Central France). Houille Blanche.
• Vandromme, R. et al., (2017) Quantification of bank erosion of artificial drainage networks using LiDAR data. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphol.
• Foucher, A. et al., (2017) Quantification of bank erosion in a drained agricultural lowland catchment. Hydrol. Process.
• Grangeon, T. et al., (2017) Hydro-sedimentary dynamics of a drained agricultural headwater catchment: A nested monitoring approach. Vadose Zo. J.
• Le Gall, M. et al., (2017) Investigating the temporal dynamics of suspended sediment during flood events with 7Be and 210Pbxs measurements in a drained lowland catchment. Sci. Rep.
• Le Gall, M. et al., (2017) Examining suspended sediment sources and dynamics during flood events in a drained catchment using radiogenic strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr). Chem. Geol.
• Foucher, A., et al., (2015). Quantifying the dominant sources of sediment in a drained lowland agricultural catchment: The application of a thorium-based particle size correction in sediment fingerprinting. Geomorphology.
• Le Gall, M. et al., (2015) Tracing Sediment Sources Using Strontium Isotopes in a Pond Draining an Agricultural Catchment (Loire River Basin, France). Procedia Earth Planet. Sci.
• Foucher, A. et al., (2014) Increase in soil erosion after agricultural intensification: Evidence from a lowland basin in France. Anthropocene.
• Simonneau, A. et al., (2013) Recent climatic and anthropogenic imprints on lacustrine systems in the Pyrenean Mountains inferred from minerogenic and organic clastic supply (Vicdessos valley, Pyrenees, France). Holocene.
• Montade, V. et al., (2012) Regional vegetation and climate changes during the last 13 kyr from a marine pollen record in Seno Reloncavi, southern Chile. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol.
• St-Onge, G. et al., (2012) Comparison of earthquake-triggered turbidites from the Saguenay (Eastern Canada) and Reloncavi (Chilean margin) Fjords: Implications for paleoseismicity and sedimentology. Sediment. Geol.

 

Thèse / Thesis: Reconstruction de la cascade sédimentaire en contexte de plaine agricole drainée : Sources, voies de transfert et stockage de matière dans le bassin versant du Louroux / Reconstruction of sediment supply in intensively cultivated lowlands : sources, pathways and sediment storage in the Louroux catchment (France)

Bases de données ouvertes/ open access databases

• Foucher, A. et al., (2023). Radionuclide, organic matter, geochemical and colorimetric properties of potential source material and target sediment for conducing sediment fingerprinting approaches in the Dzoumogné reservoir, Mayotte Island, France. https://zenodo.org/records/8403071
• Foucher, A. et al., (2023). Radionuclide, particle size and elemental geochemistry analysis results of the Poechos sediment core, northern Peru. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/record/8282995
• Evrard, O. et al., (2023). Physico-chemical properties of Saharan dust samples deposited across Europe between 13–16 March 2022 and collected through a participatory approach. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7814075
• Foucher, A. et al., (2022). Organic matter properties of the Rincon del Bonete and Palmar sediment cores (Uruguay). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6630479
• Foucher, A. et al., (2022). Results of fallout radionuclides in the Rincon del Bonete and Palmar sediment cores (Uruguay). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6630369
• Foucher, A. et al., (2021): Global review of 137Cs and 210Pbxs fallout used for dating sediment cores. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931493

 

Expansion agricole en Amérique du sud (réservoir de Palmar, Uruguay) / Agricultural expansion in South-America (Palmar reservoir, Uruguay)

 

Projets de recherche en cours / ongoing research projects

Anciens projets de recherche / Completed research projects

2016-2020: METEOR (ModElisation de l’Erosion dans la lOiRe / Modelling of soil erosion in the Loire River basin) - Projet / project  Agence de l'Eau Loire-Bretagne

2012-2015: TRACKSED (Traçage des sources de sédiments transférés depuis l'amont des hydrosystèmes / Tracking sources supplying sediment from upper parts of catchments) - Projet/project Agence de l'Eau Loire-Bretagne

2013-2015: DRASTiC (Modélisation de l'érosion et du transfert sédimentaire dans les bassins versants drainés et validation spatio-temporelle / Modelling soil erosion and sediment transfer in drained catchments, spatial and temporal validation) - Projet / project Agence de l'Eau Loire-Bretagne

2011-2014: VERSEAU (Transfert des particules des zones d’érosion aux masses d’eau) - Projet / project Agence de l'Eau Loire-Bretagne

Enseignement / Teaching

Géologie / géomorphologie / sédimentologie

Geology /geomorphology / sedimentology

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