Marie-Laure received a Master's in Geography from the University of Paris 7 with a minor in Geomorphology and GIS in October 2008.
She began her career at the CNRS (France's National Centre for Research & Science) working on the teleconnections between Ecuadorian glaciers and sea surface temperatures over the last three hundred years.
Marie-Laure is a grantee of the Franco-American Commission; she will be working at INE as a Visiting Scientist from September 2009 to July 2010.
She is building the first GIS database on methane emissions from Arctic lakes. Through an International Polar Year project, she will teach Alaska teachers and students how to conduct field studies and methane flux measurements. Marie will then create a web-based GIS (Geographic Information System) interface on methane emissions from Arctic lakes with data from both scientists and non scientists.
Marie-Laure discovered Alaska while a member of the Climate Change College (a European environmental program), traveling in the Arctic to study the impacts of climate change.
