Baptiste Dafflon
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Baptiste Dafflon is a Scientist affiliated with the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on improving the quantification and understanding of surface and subsurface processes critical to managing water resources, carbon cycling, and natural hazards across diverse environments, including Arctic, mountainous and agricultural systems. Some of his current interests involve improving the predictive understanding of water, heat, and carbon fluxes by integrating field observations with physics-based models; exploring how subsurface structure and water dynamics influence plant types, health and succession across various ecosystems; understanding how climate and environmental disturbances impact water quantity, water quality, and carbon fluxes; developing data products to parameterize or evaluate physics-based terrestrial models; and developing methodologies that integrate multiple types of data to scale understanding across spatial and temporal scales. He also works on developing new sensing approaches, such as low-power, dense, and AI-enabled wireless sensor networks.
Area of Interest
- Geophysics
- Hydrogeology
- Surfacewater Hydrology
- Natural Hazards
- Ecosystem Function
- Environmental Science and Management
- Soil Sciences
- Climate Change Processes
Education
- PhD Hydro-Geophysics|University of Lausanne, Switzerland|2009
- MSc Geophysics|ETH Zurich, Switzerland|2004
- B.S Earth Sciences|ETH Zurich, Switzerland|2002
