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Pierre came to the University of Massachusetts in october 1998 after getting his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He applied simple but usefull imaging techniques to thin-sections of lake sediments. He is now working in the Climate System Research Center and is now dealing with the study of laminated sediments from Arctic lakes using image analysis techniques....
Francus P., Bradley R., Abbott M., Keimig F. & Patridge W., 2002. Paleoclimate studies of minerogenic sediments using annually resolved textural parameters. Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 20, 1998, doi:10.1029/2002GL015082.
Francus P., 2001. Quantification of bioturbation in hemipelagic sediments via thin-sections image analysis. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71, 3, 501-507.
Leroy S., Giralt S., Francus P. and Seret G., 1996. The high sensitivity of the palynological record in the Vico maar lacustrine sequence (Latium, Italy) highlights the climatic gradient through Europe for the last 90 ka. Quaternary Sciences Reviews, 15, 2-3: 189-201.
