PhD Élise Lépy, Postdoctoral research fellow, geographer

Room: HU310
Phone: (08) 553 3295
E-mail: elise.lepy (ät) oulu.fi

Research areas

- environmental, coastal and regional geography
- Nordic environments
- climatic variations
- relationships Nature / Societies

Current research projects

• CLICHE: Impacts of climate change on Arctic environment, ecosystem services and society • DILACOMI – Different Land use Activities and local Communities in Mining projects – model for the best regulation and practices

Older research projects

• EU Life+ project VACCIA - Vulnerability assessment of ecosystem services for climate change impacts and adaptation • FiDiPro programme Human-Environment Relations in the North: resource development, climate change and resilience

I have worked as a Postdoctoral research fellow at Thule Institute and now at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oulu. My PhD thesis dealt with “Baltic Sea ice and its environmental and societal implications on coastal waters of the Bay of Bothnia and the Gulf of Riga” (nov.2009, Geophen, University of Caen - Lower-Normandy, France). I have a physical geography background that I tried to combine with human aspects of the discipline within my doctoral thesis. I am very interested in the relationships between environment and societies in the circumpolar areas and I am currently involved in projects dealing with climate change, tourism and mining activities and community-related issues.
I have worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Caen – Lower-Normandy, France and as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Le Havre, France. Most recently I have lectured at the Department of Geography of the University of Oulu.