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Edwige PONS-BRANCHU

 

Function

2007-2020: Lecturer at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Since 2020: Professor at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

U-series (U/Th or uranium-thorium dating using MC-ICPMS technic ): Speleothems and corals

Topics

Geochronology (mainly U-series)

Historical and archaeological reconstructions

Methods : U/Th and 226Ra/U dating, Sr isotopes , Pb isotopes, trace elements.

Natural archives: secondary carbonate deposits (corals and spelothems), groundwaters, sea water.

Field work: caves in Europe, coral terrasses

CV

2001: pHD thesis isotopic geochemistry (Université de Aix-Marseille 2)

2007-2020: Lecturer Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Since 2020: Professor Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

2015: thesis “Habilitation à diriger des Recherches”:Contribution à l’étude des chronomètres par déséquilibre dans la famille de l’uranium et leur application pour l’étude de l’évolution des paysages, du climat et de l’anthropocène

Since 2024: deputy director of the regional doctoral school (ECOLE DOCTORALE DES SCIENCE DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT d’Ile de France (SEIF) N°129), in charge of the Paris Saclay

Projects (Recent – present day)

  • Historical impact of urbanization on water quality, a diachronic study in Paris and surrounding areas (2019-2024). Coordinator of the project . Funded by ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche – ANR-18-CE22-0009). http://huniwers.cnrs.fr/

    • Pons-Branchu (coordination) et al. 2024-2025. Projet SpéléEAU. CNRS/INSU/EC2CO/

      Pons-Branchu et al. (2024 – 2025 – PI). SpéléEAU: L’eau à Lyon: Les spéléothèmes urbains comme archives naturelles de la géochimie des eaux au cours du temps.  C2CO/INSU/CNRS. 

    Datations croisées uranium-thorium, uranium-protactinium et carbone-14 de carbonates secondaires en grottes : recherche de critères de validation des échantillons et des âges : Application à l’art pariétal (ApART). Coordination: H Valladas. PI of work package on cross dating. Funded by ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche – ANR-18-CE27-0004).

  • Pons-Branchu (PI) : Projet “Aqueducs et Fontaines” initié dans le cadre de la Fondation des sciences du patrimoine, bénéficie du soutien d’un mécénat de Fondation d’entreprise de la Banque populaire Val de France, puis financement Labex PATRIMA (2016-2019). lien: 
http://www.sciences-patrimoine.org/index.php/aqueducs-et-fontaines-projet-de-recherche-sur-ladduction-deau-vers-les-fontaines-de-versailles.html

Publications

  • Vandevelde S., Pons-Branchu E., Deldicque D., Niane A., Mathias C., Savard D., Perrette Y., Desachy B., Slimak L., Bouchard K.. Late Mid-Pleistocene hominins fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis. V32, article 40. Archaeological Method and Theory.
  • Jaillet S., Hez G., Calvet M., Delmas M., Pons-Branchu E., Gunnell Y. (2025) – Counter-intuitive links between cave speleogenesis and subaerial stream dynamics in the Têt valley–Lachambre network, eastern Pyrenees, France. International Journal of Speleology ; 54 (1).
  • Montaggioni L.F., Salvat B., Pons-Branchu E., Martin-Garin B., Poli G., Vénec-Peyré M.T. Lecchini D., Tong Sang G. (2025). Dephasing of islet building between leeward and windward reef-rim sides, Bora Bora Island, Society Archipelago, central South Pacific. Quaternary International 719, 109638.
  • Bejarano-Arias I., Nehme C., Breitenbach S.F.M., Ionita M., Baldini J., Pons-Branchu E., Modestou S., Umbo S., Mouralis D. (2024). A multi-proxy stalagmite record indicates a shift in forcing of 20th Century drought events in Normandy”. Scientific Report 14, 26049. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77674-2
  • Brocard G., Goiran J.P., Conforti A., Preusser F., Vitale Q., Jouve G., Darras L., Benech C., Vittori C., Oberlin C., Pons-Branchu E., Mattio L., de Grauuw A., Leporati-Persiano M., De Giorgi A.U., Bertini A. (2024). Double tombolo formation by regressive barrier widening and landside submergence: The case of Orbetello, Italy, Marine Geology Vol 477.
  • Richard M., Del Val M., Fewlass H., Sinet-Mathiot V., Lanos P., Pons-Branchu E., Puaud S., Hublin J.J., Moncel M.H. (2024). Multi-method dating reveals 200 ka of Middle Palaeolithic occupation at Maras rock shelter, Rhône Valley, France. Scientific Report 14, 20474. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69380-w.
  • – Ribot M., Lefèvre M., Klinger Y., Pons-Branchu E., Dapoigny A., Jonsson S.. (2024) Vertical deformation along a strike-slip plate boundary: the uplifted marine terraces of the Gulf of Aqaba and Tiran Island, at the southern end of the Dead Sea Fault. Tectonics. 10.1029/2023TC007977
  • Garagnon J., Naffrechoux E.; Perrette Y.; Dumont E.; Branchu P.; Querleux J.; Monvoisin G.; Pin M., Tisserand D., Pons-Branchu E.. (2024). Impact of land use on PAH transfer in sub-surface water as recorded by CaCO3 concretions in urban underground structures (Paris, France). Environemental pollution , 357, 124437
  • Martin L., Nouet J., Dapoigny A., Barbotin G., Claverie F., Pons-Branchu E., Barbarand J., Pécheyran C., Mercier N., Derym F., Gély B., Valladas H. (2024). A new multimethod approach for dating cave calcite: application to the cave of the Trou du Renard (Soyons, France),  Geochronology, 6 (2), 247–263, 2024
  • De Santis V., Montagna P., Scicchitano G., Mastronuzzi G., Pons-Branchu E., Scardino G., Ortiz J.E., Sánchez-Palencia Y., Torres T., Caldara M. (2024). Two main highstands during the last interglacial : insights from palaeoshorelines and marine terraced deposits along the Ionian coast of the Apulia region, Southern Italy. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Delannoy J.J., Kemper J., Jaillet S., Pons-Branchu E., Vandevelde S., Dupuy D., Dapoigny A. (2024). Investigating Human Activities in Caves Through the Study of Broken Stalagmite Structures: The Case of the Saint‑Marcel Cave (France) During the Early Holocene. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Vol.:(0123456789) doi.org/10.1007/s10816-024-09649-61 3
  • Richard M., Pons-Branchu E., Valladas H., B. Toffolo M.B., Dubernet S., Dapoigny A., Dumoulin J.P., Beauvais P.A., Monney J.. (2024). Chronology of Upper Palaeolithic human activities recorded in a stalagmite at Points Cave (Aiguèze, Gard, France). Geoarchaeology. 
  • Canesi M., Douville E., Montagna P., Bordier L., Caquineau S., Pons-Branchu E., Iwankow G., Stolarski J., Allemand D., Planes S., Moulin C., Lombard F., Bourdin G., Troublé R., Agostini S., Banaigs B., Boissin E., Boss E., Bowler C., de Vargas C., Flores M., Forcioli D., Furla P., Gilson E., Galand P.E., Pesant S., Sunagawa S., Thomas O.P., Vega Thurber R., Voolstra C.R., Wincker P., Zoccola D., Reynaud S. (2024). Sea surface temperature reconstruction in the Pacific Ocean using multi-elemental proxy in Porites and Diploastrea corals: Application to Palau Archipelago. Chemical Geology. V645, 12188482 –
  • Richard M., Kaplan-Ashiri I., Alonso M.J., Pons-Branchu E., Dapoigny A., Rossouw L., Toffolo M.B. (2023)- New ESR dates from Lovedale, free state, South-Africa : Implications for the study of tooth diagenesis. South African Archaeological Bulletin 78 (219): 95-103.
  • Montaggioni LF, Salvat B, Pons-Branchu E, Martin-Garin B, Dapoigny A, Brunaud É, Poli G, Tatarata M. Holocene Depositional History of Low-Lying Reef-Rim Carbonate Islets of Fakarava Atoll, Northwest Tuamotu, Central South Pacific. Geosciences. 2023; 13(12):389. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13120389
  • Nehme C., Al A., Karadoğan S., Kuzucuoğlu C., Pons-Branchu E., Mouralis D. (2023).  Karst landscapes in South-Eastern Turkey: potential of cave speleothems to record the last glacial maximum and Holocene climate. Quaternaire, 34(3), p147-159
  •  Garagnon J., Perrette Y., Naffrechoux E., Pons-Branchu E., (2023). Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon record in an urban secondary carbonate deposit over the last three centuries (Paris, France). Science of the total environment. 905, 167429. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167429 78 –
  • Canavesio R., Cohen O., Pons-Branchu E., Costa S. (2023) Atoll islets reshaping processes induced by extreme cyclonic waves and calm weather. Evidence from two centuries of megablocks emergences and coral rubble displacements in Anaa, Rangiroa and Tikehau atolls (western Tuamotu archipelago -French Polynesia). Marine Geology. 107140.
  • Montaggioni LF, Pons-Branchu E., Fournier F., Martin-Garin B., Dapoigny A., Marié L., Salvat B. (2023). Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific. 104532, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Montaggioni L.F., Salvat B., Pons-Branchu E., Dapoigny A., Martin-Garin B, Poli G., Zanini J.M., Wan R. (2023) Mid-late holocene accretional history of low-lying, coral-reef rim islets, South-Marutea Atoll, Tuamotu, central South Pacific: The key role of marine hazard events. Natural Hazards Research  3 (2). pp 219-239.
  • Jaillet S., Honiat C.; Pons-Branchu E, Couchoud I., Hobléa F.; Racine T.; Spötl C., (2023). Cave sediments in the Western Bauges karst: a record of Middle and Upper Pleistocene glacial advances in the French Alps. Geomorphology. Vol 433. 108707.
  • Medina Alcaide M.A. Vandevelde S. , Quiles A.. Pons?Branchu E , Intxaurbe I , Sanchidrián J.L. , Valladas H. Deldicque D. , Catherine Ferrier C., Rodríguez E. Garate D. . (2023). Nerja. Bayesien: 35,000 years of recurrent visits inside Nerja cave (Andalusia, Spain) based on charcoals and soot micro-layers analyses. . Scientific Report, 5901
  • De Santis V., Scardino G., Scicchitano G., Meschis M., Montagna P., Pons-Branchu E., Ortiz J.E. Sánchez-Palencia Y., Caldara M (2023). Middle-late Pleistocene chronology of palaeoshorelines and uplift history in the low-rising to stable Apulian foreland: overprinting and reoccupation. Geomorphology 421. 108530
  • Pons-Branchu E., Caffy I., Delque-kolic E., Dumoulin J. P., Dumont E., Madikita S., Bultez G., Malnar D., Monvoisin G., Querleux J., Fernandez M., Tisnerat-Laborde N., Branchu P. (2022). Radiocarbon on urban secondary carbonate deposits: site effect and implication for chronology. Case study of Paris and Versailles Palace fountains. Radiocarbon. 64(6), 1323-1332. doi:10.1017/RDC.2022.78
  • Genuite K., Voinchet P., Delannoy J.J., Bahain J.J., Monney J., Arnaud J., Bruxelles L., Moncel M.H., Philippe A., Pons-Branchu E., Revil A., Richard M., Jaillet S..(2022). Middle and Late Pleistocene evolution of the Ardèche river archaeological landscapes (France). – Quaternary Science Review, 297, 107812
  • Heimlich G., Pons-Branchu E., Valladas H., Dapoigny A., Dumoulin J.P., Barbarand J., Le Quellec J.L., Mambu Nsangathi C. (2022). First cross dating (U/Th-14C) of calcite covering rock paintings in Africa: the case of the Lovo Massif, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Archaeological Science, Report 45. 103623
  • De Santis V., Scardino G., Scicchitano G., Montagna P., Pons Branchu E, Ortiz J.E., Sanchez-Palencia Y., Lisco S., Moretti M. Caldara M. (2022) Last interglacial pressure pattern over the Mediterranean from aeolian sediments: A case study from Apulia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 605 (2022) 111228
  • Pons-Branchu E., Barbarand J., Caffy I. Dapoigny A., Drugat L., Dumoulin J.P., Medina Alcaide M.A., Nouet J., Sanchidrián Torti J.L., Tisnerat-Laborde N., Jiménez de Cisneros, Valladas H, 2022. U-series and radiocarbon cross dating of speleothems from Nerja Cave (Spain): evidence of open system behavior. Implication for the Spanish rock Art chronology. Quat. Sci. Review. 290. 107634.
  • Richard M., Pons-Branchu E., Carmieli R., Ifat Kaplan-Ashiri I., Alvaro Gallo A.I., Ricci G., Caneve L., Wroth K., Dapoigny A., Tribolo C., Boaretto E.,Toffolo M.B. (2022). Investigating the effect of diagenesis on ESR dating of Middle Stone Age tooth samples from the open-air site of Lovedale, Free State, South Africa.. Quaternary Geochronology. 101269
  • Ballesteros D. , Nehme C., Painchault A., Roussel B., Delisle F., Pons-Branchu E., Todisco D., Varano M., Mouralis D. (2022) Technological knowledge of historical underground quarrying: a multidisciplinary research in the Caumont quarry (ca. 13th to 19th centuries), France. Archaeometry.
  • Martin L, Galy A, Barbotin G, Claverie F, Pons Branchu E, Tribolo C, Mercier N, Pecheyran C. (2022). Isotopic Imaging using fs-LA single collector ICP-SFMS for direct U/Th dating of small archaeological carbonates. Anal. Chemistry. 94, 7, 3046–3055
  • Richard M., Pons-Branchu E, Genuite K., Jaillet S., Joannes-Boyau R., Wang N., Genty D., Cheng H., Price G.J., Pierre M., Dapoigny A., Falguères C., Tombret O., Voinchet P.; Bahain J.J., Moncel M.H. (2021). Timing of Neanderthal occupations in the southeastern margins of the Massif Central (France): a multi-method approach. Quaternary Science Reviews. 273 – 107241
  • Antonioli F., Furlani S., Montagna P., Stocchi P., Calcagnile L., Quarta G., Cecchinel J., Lo Presti V., Morticelli M.G., Martin F.F., Pons-Branchu E., Vaccher V. (2021). Submerged speleothems and sea level reconstructions: a global overview and new results from the Mediterranean Sea. Water (MDPI).
  • Montaggioni LF., Bertrand Martin-Garin B., Bernard Salvat B., Aubanel A., Pons-Branchu E., Paterne M., Richard M. (2021). Coral conglomerate platforms as foundations for low-lying, reef islands in the French Polynesia (central south Pacific): new insights into the timing and mode of formation. Marine Geology, 437, 106500
  • Zaidner Y., Centi L., Prévost M., Mercier N., Falguères C., Guérin G., Valladas H., Richard M., Galy A., Pécheyran C., Tombret O., Pons-Branchu E., Porat N., Shahack-Gross R., Friesem D.E., Yeshurun R., Turgeman-Yaffe Z., Frumkin A., Herzlinger G., Ekshtain R., Shemer M., Varoner O., Sarig R., May H., Hershkovitz I. (2021). Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140 – 120 ka suggest interactions with Homo sapiens. Science. 372(6549), 1429-1433
  • Genuite K., Delannoy JJ, Bahain JJ, Gresse M., Jaillet S, Phillippe A, Pons-Branchu E, Revil A., Voinchet P. (2021) Dating the landscape evolution around the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave. Scientific Reports. 11, 8944
  • Audra P, Heresanu V, Barriquand L, El Kadiri Boutchich M, Jaillet S, Pons-Branchu E, Bosak P, Cheng H, Edwards RL, and Renda M (2021). Bat guano minerals and mineralization processes in Chameau Cave, Eastern Morocco. International Journal of Speleology 50 (1) 91-109.
  • Ribot M., Klinger Y., Jónsson S., Avsar U., Pons-Branchu E., Matrau R., Mallon F.L. (2021). Active faults’ geometry in the Gulf of Aqaba, southern Dead Sea fault, illuminated by multibeam bathymetric data. Tectonics Vol 40 (4).
  • Shao QF., Wu Y., Pons-Branchu E., Zhu Q., Dapoigny A., Jiang T. (2021). U-series dating of the rock paintings in Cangyuan, southwestern China. In review à Quaternary Geochronology. Quaternary Geochronology. 61 – 101127
  • Pons-Branchu E. Josè-Luis Sanchidrian, Michel Fontugne, Mª Angeles Medina Alcaide, Anita Quiles, François Thil, Hélène Valladas (2020), U-series dating at Nerja cave reveal open system. Questioning the Neanderthal origin of Spanish rock art. Journal of Archaeological Science. 117 – 105120
  • Richard M., Falguères C., Pons-Branchu E., Richter D., Beutelspacher, T., Conard, N.J., Kind J. (2020). The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Hohlenstein Stadel cave (Swabian Jura, Germany): a comparison between ESR, U-series and radiocarbon dating. Quaternary International. 556: 49-57
  • Pace B., Valentini A., Ferranti L., Vasta M., Vassalo M., Montagna P., Colell A., Pons-Branchu E. A Large Paleoearthquake in central Apennines, Italy, recorded by the collapse of a massive cave speleothem. Tectonics. e2020TC006289
  • Cushing EM, Hollender F, Moiriat D, Guyonnet-Benaize C, Theodoulidis N, Pons-Branchu E, Sepulcre S, Bard PY, Cornou C, Dechamp A, Marsical A, Roumelioti Z. (2020) Building a three dimensional model of the active Plio-Quaternary basin of Argostoli (Cephalonia Island, Greece): an integrated geophysical and geological approach. Engineering Geology, 265, 105441.
  • Montaggioni LF, Salvat B, Aubanel A, Pons-Branchu E, Martin-Garin B, Dapoigny A. (2019). New insights into the Holocene development history of a Pacific, low-lying coral reef island: Takapoto Atoll, French Polynesia. Quat. Sci. Reviews. 223 – 105947.
  • Drugat L., Pons-Branchu E., Douville E., Foliot L, Bordier L., Roy-Barman M., (2019). Rare earth and alkali metal elements in stalagmite, as marker of Mediterranean environmental changes during Termination I. Chemical Geology, 525, 414-423
  • Elliot M., Colin C., Douarin M., Pons-Branchu E., Tisnérat N., Schmidt F., Michel E., Blamart D., Dubois-Dauphin Q., Frank N., Dapoigny A., Foliot L., Miska S., Long D., Douville E. (2019). Onset and demise of coral reefs, relationship with regional ocean circulation on the Wyville Thomson Ridge. Marine Geology, 416, 105969.
  • Richard M, Falguères C, Valladas H, Ghaleb B, Pons-Branchu E, Mercier N, Richter D, Conard NJ. (2019). New ESR ages from Geißenklösterle Cave: a chronological study on Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic layers. J. of Human Evolution, 133: 133-145.
  • Ferranti L., Pace B., Valentini A., Montagna P., Pons-Branchu E., Tisnérat-Laborde N., Maschi L. (2019). Speleoseismological Constraints on Ground Shaking Threshold and Seismogenic Sources in the Pollino Range (Calabria, Southern Italy). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (5) : 5192 :5216.
  • Angeletti L., Taviani M., Montagna P., Foglini F., Corselli C., Nasto I., Pons-Branchu E (2019).U/Th dating records of deep water coral growth in submarine canyons and adjacent sectors of the southern Adriatic Sea since the last Glacial maximum. Progress in Oceanography 175: 300-308
  • Columbu A., Drysdale R., Hellstrom J., Woodhead J., Cheng H., Hua Q., Zhao JX, Montagna P., Pons-Branchu E., Edwards L. (2019) Investigation of the U-Th and radiocarbon dating of calcite speleothems from gypsum caves: implication for palaeoclimate research. Quaternary geochronology 52, 51-62
  • Colin C, Tisnérat-Laborde N, Mienis F, Collart T, Pons-Branchu E, Dubois-Dauphin Q, Frank N, Dapoigny A, Ayache M, Swingedouw D, Dutay JC, Eynaud F, Debret M, Blamart D, Douville E., (2019). Millennial-scale variations of the Holocene North Atlantic mid-depth gyre inferred from radiocarbon and neodymium isotopes in cold water corals. Quaternary Science Reviews 211: 93-106.
  • Isola I., Ribolini A., Zanchetta G., Bini M., Regattieri E., Drysdale R.N., Hellstrom J.C., Bajo P., Montagna P., and Pons-Branchu E. “Speleothem U/Th age constraints for the Last Glacial conditions in the Apuan Alps, northwestern Italy.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 518 (2019): 62-71.
  • Richard M., C. Falguères, E. Pons-Branchu E., Foliot L., Guillem M., Martínez-Valle R., Eixea A., Villaverde V. (2019) ESR/U-series chronology of early Neanderthal occupations at Cova Negra (Valence, Spain). Quaternary Geochronology. 283-290.
  • Ferranti L., Pace B., Valentini A., Montagna P., Pons-Branchu E., Tisnérat-Laborde N., Maschi L. (2019). Speleoseismological Constraints on Ground Shaking Threshold and Seismogenic Sources in the Pollino Range (Calabria, Southern Italy). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (5) : 5192 :5216.
  • Angeletti L., Taviani M., Montagna P., Foglini F., Corselli C., Nasto I., Pons-Branchu E (2019).U/Th dating records of deep water coral growth in submarine canyons and adjacent sectors of the southern Adriatic Sea since the last Glacial maximum. Progress in Oceanography 175: 300-308
  • Columbu A., Drysdale R., Hellstrom J., Woodhead J., Cheng H., Hua Q., Zhao JX, Montagna P., Pons-Branchu E., Edwards L. (2019) Investigation of the U-Th and radiocarbon dating of calcite speleothems from gypsum caves: implication for palaeoclimate research. Quaternary geochronology 52, 51-62
  • Colin C, Tisnérat-Laborde N, Mienis F, Collart T, Pons-Branchu E, Dubois-Dauphin Q, Frank N, Dapoigny A, Ayache M, Swingedouw D, Dutay JC, Eynaud F, Debret M, Blamart D, Douville E., (2019). Millennial-scale variations of the Holocene North Atlantic mid-depth gyre inferred from radiocarbon and neodymium isotopes in cold water corals. Quaternary Science Reviews 211: 93-106.
  • Isola I., Ribolini A., Zanchetta G., Bini M., Regattieri E., Drysdale R.N., Hellstrom J.C., Bajo P., Montagna P., and Pons-Branchu E. “Speleothem U/Th age constraints for the Last Glacial conditions in the Apuan Alps, northwestern Italy.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 518 (2019): 62-71.
  • Richard M., C. Falguères, E. Pons-Branchu E., Foliot L., Guillem M., Martínez-Valle R., Eixea A., Villaverde V. (2019) ESR/U-series chronology of early Neanderthal occupations at Cova Negra (Valence, Spain). Quaternary Geochronology. 283-290.
  • Daujeard C., Vettese D., Britton K., Béarez P., Boulbes N., Crégut-Bonnoure E., Desclaux E., Lateur N., Pike-Tay A., Rivals F., Allué E., Chacón M.G. , Puaud S., Richard M., Courty M.-A., Hardy B., Gallotti R., Bahain J.J., Falguères C., Pons-Branchu E., Valladas H., Moncel M.-H (2019). Neanderthal selective hunting of reindeer? The case study of Abri du Maras (south-eastern France). Journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 113 985-1011.
  • Pons-Branchu E., Bergonzini L., Tisnérat-Laborde N., Branchu P., Dumont E., Massault M., Bultez G., Malnar D., Kaltnecker E., Dumoulin J.P., Noret A., Pelletier N. , Roy-Barman M. (2018) 14C in urban speleothem-like deposits: a new tool for environmental study. Radiocarbon. 60 (4): 1269-1281
  • Pons-Branchu E. et Quinif Y. La chronologie des spéléothèmes par les séries de l’uranium appliquée aux enregistrements par l’endokarst. Historique, perspectives et applications. (2018) karstologia 71: 45-52.
  • Canavesio R., Pons-Branchu E. Yannick C. (2018). The living Coral Cover and High Energy Marine Inundation Reef Platform Boulders dating (U/Th) Evidence from the 1903 tropical cyclone in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia). Coral reef 37 : 1139–1155.
  • Wu H., Dissard D., Douville, Blamart D., Bordier L, Tribollet A, Pons-Branchu E, Le Cornec F, Dapoigny A., Lazareth C.E. (2018). Acidification of the south Pacific surface ocean from anthropogenic CO2 uptake over the last 3 centuries. Nature communication 9, 2543.
  • Roy-Barman M., Pons-Branchu E., Levier M., Bordier L., Foliot L., Gdaniec S., Ayrault S., Garcia-Orellana J., Masque P. and Castrillejo,M., 2019. Barium during the GEOTRACES GA-04S MedSeA cruise: The Mediterranean Sea Ba budget revisited. Chemical Geology 511: 431-440.
  • Paterne M, Feuillet N, Cabioch G, Cortijo E., Blamart D., Weill-Accardo J., Bonneau L., Colin ., Douville E., Pons-Branchu E. (2018). Reservoir ages in the Western tropical North Atlantic from one coral off Martinique Is. (Lesser Antilles). Radiocarbon. 60 (2). 639-652.
  • Jaillet, S., Pons-Branchu, E., Hoblea, F., Berthet, J., Deline, P., Duvillard, P. A., & Genuite, K. (2018). The glacio-karstic depression of Mariet (Bauges occidentales, France): a marker of the wurmian glaciation in the Northern French Alps. GEOMORPHOLOGIE-RELIEF PROCESSUS ENVIRONNEMENT, 24(2), 107-120.
  • Collard T, Verreydt W, Hernández-Molina FJ, Llave E, León R., Gómez-Ballesteros M., Pons-Branchu E., Stewart H, Van Rooij D. (2018). Sedimentary processes and cold-water coral mini-mounds at the Ferrol canyon head, NW Iberian margin. Progress in Oceanography. 169 : 48-65
  • Bonneau L Colin C Pons-Branchu, Mienis F ., Tisnérat-Laborde N., Blamart D. , Elliot M., Collart T., Frank N., Foliot L., Douville E. Imprint of Holocene climate variability on cold-water coral reef growth at the SW Rockall Trough margin, NE Atlantic. Accepté. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
  • Pedoja K., Husson L., Bezos A., Pastier AM, Imran A, Arias Ruiz C, Sarr AC, Elliot M, Pons-Branchu E, Nexer M., Regard V., Hafidz A., Robert X., Benoit L, Delcaillau B. Authemayou C., Dumoulin C., Choblet G, (2018). On the long-lasting sequences of coral reef terraces from SE Sulawesi (Indonesia): distribution, formation, and global significance. Quaternary Science Reviews, 188, 37-57
  • Pons-Branchu E, Roy-Barman M., Jean-Soro L., Guillerme A., Branchu P., Fernandez M., Dumont E., E Douville and Michelot JL and Phillips MA. (2017). Urbanization impact on sulfur content of groundwater revealed by the study of urban speleothems: Case study in Paris, France. Science of the Total Environement. 579, 124-132
  • Shao Q., Pons-Branchu E., Zhu QP., Wei Wang W, Valladas H, Fontugne.M. (2017). High precision U/Th dating of the rock paintings at Mt. Huashan, Guangxi, southern China. Quaternary research 88, (1) 1-13
  • Valladas H, Pons-Branchu E, Dumoulin JP, Quiles A, Medina-Alcaide MA, Sanchidrain JL. (2017) U/Th and C-14 cross dating of parietal calcite deposits: application to Nerja cave (Andalusia, Spain) and future perspectives. Radiocarbon 59 (6). 1955-1967
  • Sorriaux P., Delmas M., Calvet M., Gunnell Y., Durand N. et Pons-Branchu E. (accepté). Relations entre karst et glaciers depuis 450 ka dans les grottes de Niaux-Lombrives-Sabart (Pyrénées ariégeoises) Nouvelles datations U-Th dans la grotte de Niaux. karstologia.
  • Bosworth W., Montagna P., Pons-Branchu E., Rasul N, Taviani M (2017). Seismic Hazards Implications of Uplifted Pleistocene Coral Terraces in the Gulf of Aqaba. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 38
  • Sanchidrián JL, Valladas H, Medina-Alcaide MA, Pons-Branchu E, Quiles A (2017) New perspectives for 14C dating of parietal markings using CaCO3 thin layers: an example in Nerja cave (Spain). J. of Archaeological Science reports 12. pp 74-80.
  • Richard M., Falguères C., Pons-Branchu ., Ghaleb B., Valladas H, Mercier N, Richter D, Bahain JJ, Conard NJ. (2017). Dating Upper Pleistocene sites using combined ESR/U-Th method: Methodology and application to karstic contexts. L’Anthropologie
  • Dubois-Dauphin Q, Montagna P, Siani G, Douville E, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Zhifei L, Kallel N, Dapoigny A, Pons-Branchu E, Colin C. (2017) Hydrological variations of the intermediate water masses of the western Mediterranean Sea during the past 20 ka inferred from neodymium isotopic composition in foraminifera and cold-water corals. Climate of the past 13, 17-37.
  • Valladas H., Quiles A, Delque-Kolic M., Kaltnecker E.,Moreau C., Pons Branchu E., Vanrel L , Olive M., .Delestres X (2017). Radiocarbon dating of the decorated Cosquer cave (France). Radiocarbon, 59 (2), 621-633.
  • Selçuk, A. S., Erturaç, M. K., Üner, S., Özsayın, E., & Pons-Branchu, E. (2017). Evolution of Çamlık Fissure-Ridge Travertines in the BaÅŸkale Basin (Van, Eastern Anatolia). Geodinamica Acta, Vol. 29 (1) 1-42.
  • Pons-Branchu E., Fontugne M., Michel V., Valladas H., (2017). Comment on: “Uranium-thorium dating method and Palaeolithic rock art” by Sauvet et al. (2015, in press). 432, Part B, 93-95
  • J Jaubert, D Genty, H. Valladas, P. Courtaud, C Ferrier, V. Feruglio, N Fourment, S. Konik, S. Villotte, C. Bourdier, S. Costamagno, M. Delluc, N. Goutas, É. Katnecker, L. Klaric, M. Langlais, L. Ledoux, F. Maksud, M. O’Farrell, J.B.Mallye, M. Pierre, E. Pons-Branchu, É. Régnier, I. Théry-Parisot (2017). The chronology of human and animal presence in the decorated and sepulchral cave of Cussac (France). Quaternary International, 432, Part B, 5-24.
  • Roy-Barman M and Pons-Branchu E. (2016). Improved dating of carbonates with high initial 230Th using stratigraphical and coevality constrains on U-Th ages. Quaternary Geochronology, 32, 29-39.
  • Victorero L, Blamart D, Pons-Branchu E; Mavrogordato M, Huvenne VA. (2016). Reconstruction of the formation history of the Darwin Mounds, N Rockall Trough: how the dynamics of a sandy contourite affected cold-water coral growth. Marine Geology, 378, 1 186–195
  • Pleurdeau, D, Moncel MH., Pinhasi R., Yeshurun R., Higham T, Agapishvili T Bokeria M; Muskhelishvili A; Le Bourdonnec FX.; Nomade S; Poupeau G; Bocherens H; Frouin M; Genty D; Pons-Branchu E; Pierre M; Lordkipanidze D; Tushabramishvili N (2016). Bondi Cave and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition in western Georgia (SouthCaucasus). Quarternary. Science review,146, 77-98
  • Dubois-Dauphin, Q., Bonneau, L., Colin, C., Montero”Serrano, J. C., Montagna, P., Blamart, D., Hebbeln D., Van Rooij D, Pons-Branchu E, Hemsing F, Wefing AM, Frank, N. (2016 ). South Atlantic intermediate water advances into the North”east Atlantic with reduced Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last glacial period. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 17, 2336–235
  • Pons-Branchu E., Ayrault S., Roy-Barman M., Bordier L., Borst W., Branchu P., Douville E. and Dumont E.. (2015). Three centuries of heavy metal pollution in Paris (France) recorded by urban speleothems. (2015). Science of the Total Environment 15, pp 86–96.
  • Corchón Rodríguez S, Garate D, Rivero O, de la Cierva J, Valladas H, Pons-Branchu E, Murelaga X, Ortega P, Vicente FJ (2015). U-series and 14C datings for a newly discovered decorated area in the Palaeolithic cave of La Peña de Candamo (Asturies, Northern Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science. 3, 371-380.
  • M. Richard, C. Falguères, E. Pons-Branchu, J.-J. Bahain, P. Voinchet, M. Lebon, H. Valladas, J.-M. Dolo, S. Puaud, M. Rué, C. Daujeard, M.-H. Moncel, J.-P. Raynal (2015). Contribution of ESR/U-series dating to the chronology of late Middle Palaeolithic sites in the middle Rhône valley, southeastern France. Quaternary Geochronology 30, 529-534.
  • Columbu A, De Waele J, Forti P, Montagna P, Picotti V., Pons-Branchu E., Hellstrom J., Bajo P., Drysdal R. (2015). Gypsum caves as indicators of climate-driven river incision and aggradation in a fast uplifting region. Geology. 43, p. 539-542.
  • I. Labuhn, D. Genty , H. Vonhof , C. Bourdin, D. Blamart , E. Douville , J. Ruan , H. Cheng R., L. Edwards, E. Pons-Branchu, M. Pierre (2015). A high-resolution fluid inclusion d18O record from a stalagmite in SW France: modern calibration and comparison with multiple proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews 110 152-165.
  • Pucci S., Villani F., Civico R. Pantosti D., Del Carlo P., Smedile A, De Martini PM, Pons-Branchu E, Gueli A. (2015) . Quaternary geology map of the Middle Aterno Valley, 2009 L’Aquila earthquake area (Abruzzi Apennines, Italy. Journal of maps 11, 689-697. DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2014.927128
  • E. Pons-Branchu, E. Douville, M. Roy-Barman, E. Dumont, P. Branchu, F. Thil, N. Frank, L. Bordier and W. Borst (2014). A geochemical perspective on Parisian urban history based on U-Th dating, laminae counting and yttrium and REE concentrations of recent carbonates in underground aqueducts. Quaternary Geochronology 24, 44-53.
  • Pons-Branchu E., Bourrillon R., Conkey M., Fontugne M., Fritz C., Garate D., Quilès A., Rivero O., Sauvet G., Tosello G., Valladas H., White R.(2014). U-series dating of carbonate formations overlying Paleolithic art: interest and limitations. Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 111 (2). p211-224.
  • Corchón S., Garate D., Valladas H., Rivero O., Pons-Branchu E., Ortega P. Hernando C. (2014). BACK TO THE POINT: new datings for Peña DE Candamo cave art (AsturiAS). De vuelta al punto de partida: nuevas dataciones del arte de la cueva de la Peña de Candamo (Asturias). Zephyrus.
  • JAILLET S., CAILHOL D., ARNAUD J., ASTRADE L., BELINGARD C., BOCHE E., CORNILLON T. COUCHOUD I., DUGUET R., FRANCK N., GAUCHON C., HELLSTROM J., LE ROUX P., MONTEIL P., PEYRONEL O., PONS-BRANCHU E., SADIER B., THOMAS M. (2012) Les crues du système karstique de Foussoubie Ardèche, France Une analyse géomorphologique et hydrodynamique des circulations dans la zone épinoyée du karst. Floods in the Foussoubie karst system (Ardèche, France). Geomorphological and hydrodynamic analysis in the epiphreatic karstic zone . Karsts – Paysages et Préhistoire. Pp 115-138. Collection EDYTEM – n° 13
  • Wainer K., Genty, D., Blamart, D., Daeron, M., Bar-Matthews, M., Vonhof, H., Dublyansky, Y., Pons-Branchu, E., Thomas, L., van Calsteren, P., Quinif, Yves, Caillon N. (2011). Speleothem record of the last 180 ka in Villars cave (SW France): Investigation of a large delta O-18 shift between MIS6 and MIS5. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS Vol. 30, Issue: 1-2, pp 130-146
  • Pons-Branchu E., Hamelin B, Losson B, Jaillet S and Brulhet J (2010) . Speleothem evidence of warm episodes in northeast France during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 and implications for permafrost distribution in northern Europe. Quaternary Research 74 (2) 246-251.
  • Branchu P., Bergonzini L., Pons-branchu E., Violier E, Dittrich M., Massault M., Ghaleb B. (2010). Lake Malawi sediment and pore water chemistry: Proposition of a conceptual model for stratification intensification since the end of the Little Ice Age. Global and Planetary Change, Volume 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 321-330
  • Douville E., Sallé E., Frank N., Eisele M., Pons-Branchu E., Ayrault S., 2010.
    Rapid and accurate U-Th dating of ancient carbonates using inductively coupled plasma-quadrupole mass spectrometry. Chemical Geology 272, 1-11.
  • S. Quidelleur, M. Granet, I. Laszak, H. Isnard, E. Pons-Branchu,* R. Brennetot, C. Caussignac (2009). One step U–Pu–Cs–Ln–steel separation using TRU preconditioned extraction resins from Eichrom for application on transmutation targets. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Vol. 280, No.3; 507–517 DOI: 10.1007/s10967-009-744.
  • Andrieu-Ponel V., Texier D., Brulhet J., Beaulieu J.L., Begeot C., Cheddadi R., Gandouin E., Goodess C., Guiter F., Hamelin B., Loutre M.-F., Magny M., Masson-Demotte V., Paillard D., Petit-Maire N., Ponel P., Pons-Branchu E., Reille M., Ruffaldi P., Thorne M.C. & B. Van-Vliet-Lanoe (2007). Climate and Environmental Evolution Scenarios for the Meuse / Haute-Marne, France. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 178 n.s. pp 115-134
  • Jaillet S., Pons-Branchu E., Maire R., Hamelin B., Brulhet J. (2006) Enregistrement de paléo-mises en charge holocènes dans deux stalagmites du réseau du Rupt-du-Puits (Barrois, France). Analyses morphologiques des lamines et datations U/Th en TIMS. Geologica belgica . 9 (3-4).
  • Pons-Branchu E., Hillaire-Marcel C., Ghaleb B., Deschamps P. et Sinclair D. (2005) «Early diagenesis impact on precise U-series dating of Deep-Sea corals. Example of a 100-200 years old Lophelia Pertusa sample from NE Atlantic. » Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta , 69 (20) : 4865-4879.
  • Ghaleb B., Pons-Branchu E., et Deschamps P. (2004) «Improved method for radium extraction from environmental samples for determination by thermal ionisation Mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 19 (7) : 906-910 .
  • Jaillet S., Pons-branchu E., Brulhet J. et Hamelin B. (2004) «Karstification as a geomorphological witness of river incision: example of the Marne Valley and Cousance karst system (Eastern Paris Bassin) . » TERRA NOVA, 16 (4) : 167-172.
  • Harmand D, Lejeune O., Jaillet S., Allouc J., Ochietti S., Brulhet J., Fauvel P.J., Hamelin B., Laurain M., Le roux J., Marre A., Pons-branchu E., Quinif Y., Devos A. (2004): Dynamique de l’érosion dans le Barrois n et le Perthois (Est du Bassin parisien) : incision et karstification dans les bassins-versants de la Marne, de la Saulx et de l’Ornain. Quaternaire.15 (4) 305-318.
  • Pons-Branchu E., Hamelin B., Brulhet J. et Bruxelles L. (2004) «Speleothem rupture in karst: tectonic or climatic origin? U-Th dating of rupture events in Salamandre Cave (Gard, South-Eastern France). » Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 175, (5) : 473-479.
  • Genty D., Baker A., Massault M., Proctor C., Pons-Branchu E. et Hamelin B. (2001) «Dead carbon in stalagmites : carbonates bedrocks vs ageing of soil organic matter. Implications for 13C variations in speleothems.» Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 65 (20) : 3443-3457.

Enseignement

Cours en licence et master, en géologie, climat et environnement. Etudiants concernés: licence Biologie-Environnement, SVT et master Sciences de l’Environnement.

Divers

Projets scientifiques

Pons-Branchu et al. (2019-2023). Huniwers. ANR. http://huniwers.cnrs.fr/

Valladas et al. (2018-2021). ApART. ANR.

Pons-Branchu (PI) : Projet “Aqueducs et Fontaines” initié dans le cadre de la Fondation des sciences du patrimoine, bénéficie du soutien d’un mécénat de Fondation d’entreprise de la Banque populaire Val de France, puis financement Labex PATRIMA (2016-2019). lien:

http://www.sciences-patrimoine.org/index.php/aqueducs-et-fontaines-projet-de-recherche-sur-ladduction-deau-vers-les-fontaines-de-versailles.html

-Mercier et al. 2016-2017. DOM ART (ANR).

– Pons-Branchu et al.. 2014-2015. Histoires d’eau souterraine: les nappes phréatiques superficielles à Paris vues au travers de deux aqueducs. Etat des lieux, historique, et perspectives pour une meilleure gestion de l’eau. Paris 2030. AO Mairie de Paris. lien :

http://technique-societe.cnam.fr/recherche/programmes-et-projets/histoires-d-eau-souterraine-hydrogeologie-des-nappes-d-eau-superficielles-a-paris--684768.kjsp

-Valladas et al., 2013-2014. Stratégie d’acquisition et traitement des datations Radiocarbone et Uranium/Thorium dans les Grottes ornées du Paléolithique supérieur
PNRCC (Ministère de la culture)

– Roy-Barman et al., 2013-2015. Particle transport derived from isotope tracers and its impact on ocean biogeochemistry: A GEOTRACES project in the Arctic Ocean . AO Franco Suédois.

– HAMOC: Dynamique des gyres Nord Atlantique et overturning de la Méditerranée au cours des changements climatiques de l’Holocène. Colin C. ANR Blanc. 2014-2016

– Wirreman D. 2013-2014. CENSOHR – Cycles ENSO à Haute Résolution (Vanuatu, Nouvelle-Caléonie, derniers millénaires). AO IPLS. 2013-2014

-Corchon et al. “OCUPACION DEL TERRITORIO Y ACTIVIDAD SIMBOLICA PALEOLITICA EN EL CENTRO DE LA CORNISA CANTABRICA (27.000-12.000 B.P.). LOS MODELOS DE LOS VALLES DEL NALON, SELLA Y CARES”. 2013-2016.

-Pons-Branchu et al. 2012-2013. Hydrohisteau. Projet INSU. Ec2Co