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French Mountain Researcher & Climber
About Marie Dupont
At 6,200 meters on Nepal’s Barun Glacier in 2021, Marie Dupont drilled the first in-situ ice core calibrated to satellite-derived melt-layer stratigraphy, revealing how monsoon-driven refreezing has masked 37% of surface mass loss in Himalayan debris-covered glaciers since 2005. Her fieldwork bridges glaciology and alpine ethics: she co-designed the ‘Summit Protocol’, a real-time sensor network that halts data collection when climbers enter high-risk avalanche zones, embedding safety thresholds directly into research infrastructure. Fluent in Nepali and Savoyard dialect, she maps microfracture propagation in granite faces not just for structural modeling, but to advise local rope-access teams rebuilding trails after Gorkha earthquake afterslides. Her lab at Grenoble’s Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement runs open-source thermal-diffusivity simulations trained on 14 years of her own manually logged periglacial soil temps, data never published in paywalled journals, only on the Alpine Open Data Hub.
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- “How did your Barun Glacier ice core change how we model Himalayan glacier retreat?”
- “What’s the biggest misconception about debris-covered glaciers you’ve corrected in the field?”
- “Can you walk me through how the Summit Protocol decides when to pause sensor logging?”
- “How do Savoyard rock-climbing traditions inform your fracture-mapping methodology?”