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ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS

- 2019
  • Chevalier, M., Chase, B.M., Quick, L.J., and Davis, B.A.S., (2019). What if fossil pollen had more things to tell us? INQUA2019, Dublin, Ireland. [download]

  • Chevalier, M., Chase, B.M., Quick, L.J., and Davis, B.A.S., (2019). More uncertainties for more certainly. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria[download]

  • Chevalier, M., Chase, B.M. and Quick, L.J.: New possibilities to quantify past climate from fossil pollen assemblages. SASQUA (Southern African Society for Quaternary Research) congress, Mossel Bay, South Africa. [download]

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- 2018
  • Chevalier, M.: Unprecedented possibilities to quantify past climate from fossil (pollen) assemblages at a global scale. AFQUA (African Quaternary) congress, Nairobi, Kenya. [download]

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M.: The importance of differentiating rainfall amount from humidity in palaeo-reconstructions. AFQUA (African Quaternary) congress, Nairobi, Kenya. [download]

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- 2017
  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M.: CREST: Climate REconstruction SofTware. PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting (OSM), Zarogoza, Spain. [download]

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M.: Quantified 45,000 years-long temperature and precipitation reconstructions in southeast Africa. PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting (OSM), Zarogoza, Spain. [download]

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M.: A new Framework to optimise palaeoclimatic information derived from fossil pollen data. PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting (YSM), Morillo de Tau, Spain. [download]

  • Chevalier, M. A new framework to optimise palaeoclimatic information derived from fossil pollen data. University of Lausanne. [download]

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- 2015

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M.: Pollen-based quantitative temperature and precipitation reconstructions in southeast Africa. INQUA 2015, Nagoya, Japan. [download]

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M.: CREST: Climate REconstruction SofTware. INQUA 2015, Nagoya, Japan. [download]

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M., (2015). “Pollen-based quantitative precipitation reconstruction in Southeastern Africa compared with GCMs simulations”. Inaugural African Quaternary: Environments, Ecology and Humans (AfQUA) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M, (2015). “CREST – Climate Reconstruction SofTware”. Inaugural African Quaternary: Environments, Ecology and Humans (AfQUA) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa. [download]

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- 2014

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M.: A new method for quantitative reconstructions of past climate change. From Past to Present: A tribute to Louis Scott Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa. [download]

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Presentations & Seminars
Contributed Talks
- 2019
  • Burrough, S., Singarayer, J., Williams, C., Hipodonka, M., de Cort, G., Chevalier, M., Bryant, R. and Eckardt, F.: Desert lakes in the late Quaternary: Hydroclimate variability in the southern African interior. INQUA2019, Dublin, Ireland.

  • Sommer, P.S., Davis, B.A.S., Chevalier, M., Ni, J. and Tipton J.:  The HORNET project: applying 'big data' to reconstruct the climate of the Northern Hemisphere during the Holocene. INQUA2019, Dublin, Ireland.

  • Chase, B.M., Niedermeyer, E.M., Boom, A., Carr, A.S., Chevalier, M., He, F., Meadows, M.E., Ogle, N. and Reimer, P.J.: Orbital and millennial-scale drivers of Namib Desert hydroclimate over the last 50,000 years. INQUA2019, Dublin, Ireland.

  • De Cort, G., Chevalier, M., Burrough, S., Singarayer, J., Harrison, S.P.: A data base of hydroclimate-driven lake-level variability in eastern and southern Africa throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene. INQUA2019, Dublin, Ireland.

  • Sommer, P.S., Davis, B.A.S. and Chevalier, M.: Github and Open Research Data; an example using the Eurasian Modern Pollen Database. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria.

  • Davis, B.A.S., Chevalier, M., Ni, J., Sommer., P.S. and Tipton J.: The HORNET project: A gridded pollen-based Holocene climate record for the Northern Hemisphere extra-tropics. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria.

  • Chase, B.M., Carr, A.S., Niedermeyer, E.M., Boom, A., Chevalier, M., He, F., Meadows, M.E., Medina-Sanchez, J., Ogle, N. and Reimer, P.J.: Refinement of stable isotope palaeoclimate proxies from southern African rock hyrax middens. SASQUA (Southern African Society for Quaternary Research) congress, Mossel Bay, South Africa.

  • Chase, B.M., Carr, A.S., Boom, A., Chevalier, M., He, F., Meadows, M.E., Nicholson, S.E., Shanahan, T.M., Ogle, N. Niedermeyer, E.M. and Reimer, P.J.: Orbital and millennial-scale drivers of southwest African hydroclimate over the last 50,000 years. SASQUA (Southern African Society for Quaternary Research) congress, Mossel Bay, South Africa.

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- 2018
  • Phelps, L., Manning, K., Broennimann, O., Timpson, A., Mariethoz, G., Davis, B.A.S., Guisan, A. and Chevalier, M.: Quantifying trends in the land use niche: Holocene animal production expansion on the African continent. AFQUA (African Quaternary) congress, Nairobi, Kenya.

  • de Cort, G., Burrough, S., Chevalier, M., Chen, C.Y., McGee, D., Shuman B. and Harrison, S.P.: Studying eastern and southern African late-Pleistocene and Holocene hydroclimate history through the Global Lake Status Data Base. AFQUA (African Quaternary) congress, Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Sommer, P., Chevalier, M. and Davis, B.A.S.: STRADITIZE: An open-source program for digitizing pollen diagrams and other types of stratigraphic data. AFQUA (African Quaternary) congress, Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Chase, B.M., Carr, A.S., Boom, A., Chevalier, M., He, F., Meadows, M.E., Shanahan, T.M., Ogle, N., Niedermeyer, E.M. and Reimer, P.J.: Controls on Namib Desert hydroclimate over the last 50,000 years. AFQUA (African Quaternary) congress, Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Chase, B.M., Chevalier, M., Boom, A., Carr, A.S. and Quick, L.J.: Holocene climate change in southern Africa: patterns, abrupt change and teleconnections. AFQUA (African Quaternary) congress, Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Davis, B.A.S., Chevalier, M., Sommer, P., de  Vernal, A. and Cartapanis, O.: Reconstruction of winter atmospheric teleconnections in the North Atlantic area during the Holocene using a gridded pollen-based temperature record. EGU congress, Vienna, Austria.

  • Sommer, P., Davis, B.A.S. and Chevalier, M.: STRADITIZE: An open-source program for digitizing pollen diagrams and other types of stratigraphic data. EGU congress, Vienna, Austria.

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- 2017
  • Davis, B.A.S., Chevalier, M., Izumi, K., Sommer, P., Mauri, A., Kaplan, J.O. and Cartapanis, O.: The HORNET Project: A gridded seasonal climate reconstruction for the Northern Hemisphere extra-tropics over the last 12,000 years based on pollen-data. PMIP4 first conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Davis, B.A.S., Mauri, A., Kaplan, J.O. and Chevalier, M.: The lost season: Winter temperature change during the Holocene. PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting (OSM), Zaragoza, Spain.

  • Chase, B.M., Chevalier, M., Boom, A.S., and Carr, A.S.: The dynamic relationship between temperate and tropical circulation systems across South Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum. PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting (OSM), Zaragoza, Spain.

  • Cheddadi, R., Araùjo, M.B., Maiorano, L., Edwards, M., Guisan, A., Carré, M., Chevalier, M. and Pearman, P.B.: Changes in the thermal niche of three European tree species since 10,000 yr BP. PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting (OSM), Zaragoza, Spain.

  • Cheddadi, R., Araujo, M., Maiorano, L., Edwards, M., Guisan, A., Carré, M., Chevalier, M., and Pearman, P.: Temperature range shifts for three European tree species over the last 10,000 years. 8th biennial conference of the International Biogeography Society, IBS Tucson, USA.

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- 2016

  • Quick, L.J., Chevalier, M., Kirsten, K.L., Wündsch, M., Mäusbacher, R., Meadows, M.E., Chase, B.M. and Haberzettl, T.: Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics along the southern Cape coast, South Africa: palynological and microcharcoal evidence from Eilandvlei. Southern Hemisphere Assessment of PalaeoEnvironments (SHAPE) International Focus Group Workshop: Southern Hemisphere climate of the present and past, Santiago, Chile.

  • Carré, M., Azzoug, M., Zaharis, P., Camara, A., Wade, M., Gaye, A., Patris, N., Cheddadi, R., Chevalier, M., Mitma Garcia, N., Lazareth, C., Lazar, A., Mignot, J., Khodri, M. and Janicot, S.: Rainfall in the Sahel linked to global temperature in the past 1600 years. EGU 2016, Vienna, Austria.

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- 2015

  • Chase, B.M., Boom, A., Carr, A.S., Chevalier, M., Lim, S., Niedermeyer, E. and Reimer, P.J.: Drivers and responses of late Quaternary southern African palaeoenvironments. INQUA 2015, Nagoya, Japan.

  • Chase, B.M., Boom, A., Carr, A.S., Chevalier, M., Lim, S., Niedermeyer, E. and Reimer, P.J., (2015). The nature and potential of rock hyrax middens as palaeoenvironmental archives. INQUA 2015, Nagoya, Japan.

  • Lim, S., Chase, B.M., Chevalier, M.: 50,000 years of climate and vegetation change in the Namib Desert. INQUA 2015, Nagoya, Japan.

  • Chase, B.M., Boom, A., Carr, A.S., Chevalier, M. and Reimer, P.J., (2015). Drivers and responses of late Quaternary southern African palaeoenvironments. Inaugural African Quaternary: Environments, Ecology and Humans (AfQUA) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.

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- 2014

  • Chase, B.M. and Chevalier, M.: Drivers and responses of late Quaternary southern African palaeoenvironments. 4th Southern Deserts Conference, Mendoza, Argentina.

  • Chevalier, M. and Chase, B.M.: A new method for quantitative reconstructions of past climate change. From Past to Present: A tribute to Louis Scott Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

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- 2012

  • Truc, L., Chase, B.M., Favier, C., Cheddadi, R., Meadows, M.E., Scott, L. and Chevalier, M.: The application of pdf-based botanical-climatological transfer functions to southern Africa fossil pollen sequences: a quantitative reconstruction of palaeoclimatic variables over the last 20 kyr at Wonderkrater, South Africa. SASQUA 2012 XVIX Conference, Gobabeb, Namibia.

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