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Baptiste Dafflon is a Staff Scientist in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Baptiste and his research group 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 and/or process-based models. Baptiste’s research projects are linked to a variety of environments, including arctic, mountainous and coastal systems as well as agriculture and contaminated sites. Among several efforts, he is the institutional lead of the NGEE-Arctic (Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments) project.
Area of Interest
- Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
- Geophysics
- Environmental Engineering
- Hydrogeology
- Ecosystem Function
Education
- PhD Hydro-Geophysics|University of Lausanne, Switzerland|2009
- MSc Geophysics|ETH Zurich, Switzerland|2004
- B.S Earth Sciences|ETH Zurich, Switzerland|2002
