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Guillaume Favreau is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on groundwater and watershed analysis. Their work spans subfields including environmental engineering, geochemistry and petrology, geophysics, nuclear and high energy physics, and water science and technology.

The scientist's main topics of investigation cover:

  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • NMR spectroscopy and applications
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Environmental Earth Sciences
  • Journal of Water Resource and Protection
  • European Scientific Journal ESJ
  • Environmental Research Letters

Favreau has coauthored multiple papers with several researchers, including:

  • Yahaya Nazoumou (9 collaborations)
  • Richard G. Taylor (8 collaborations)
  • Boukari Issoufou Ousmane (8 collaborations)
  • Rabilou Abdou Mahaman (7 collaborations)
  • Marie Boucher (7 collaborations)

Their recent publications include:

  • "Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security" (2021), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "Groundwater recharge from heavy rainfall in the southwestern Lake Chad Basin: evidence from isotopic observations" (2021), published in Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • "Changes in aquifer properties along a seasonal river channel of the Niger Basin: Identifying groundwater recharge pathways in a dryland environment" (2022), published in Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • "Groundwater quality and its implications for domestic and agricultural water supplies in a semi-arid river basin of Niger" (2023), published in Environmental Earth Sciences
  • "Rise of Urban Water Table as a Cause of Flooding: Improving Knowledge in the City of Niamey (Niger Republic)" (2021), published in Journal of Water Resource and Protection

Best Publications

  • Land clearing, climate variability, and water resources increase in semiarid southwest Niger: A review

    G. Favreau;B. Cappelaere;S. Massuel;M. Leblanc

  • Determining natural groundwater influx to a tropical river using radon, chlorofluorocarbons and ionic environmental tracers

    P.G. Cook;G. Favreau;J.C. Dighton;S. Tickell

  • Spatio-temporal variability of hydrological regimes around the boundaries between Sahelian and Sudanian areas of West Africa: A synthesis

    Luc Descroix;Gil Mahé;Thierry Lebel;Guillaume Favreau

  • Land clearance and hydrological change in the Sahel: SW Niger

    Marc J. Leblanc;Guillaume Favreau;Sylvain Massuel;Sarah O. Tweed

  • Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa

    Mark O. Cuthbert;Richard G. Taylor;Guillaume Favreau;Guillaume Favreau;Martin C. Todd

  • Arid zone groundwater recharge and salinisation processes; an example from the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia

    Sarah Tweed;Sarah Tweed;Marc Leblanc;Marc Leblanc;Ian Cartwright;Ian Cartwright;Guillaume Favreau

  • Renewal rate estimation of groundwater based on radioactive tracers (3H, 14C) in an unconfined aquifer in a semi-arid area, Iullemeden Basin, Niger

    C. Marlin;C. Leduc;J.D. Taupin

  • Simulated impacts of climate change and land-clearing on runoff from a small Sahelian catchment

    L. Seguis;B. Cappelaere;G. Milesi;C. Peugeot

  • The AMMA-CATCH experiment in the cultivated Sahelian area of south-west Niger – Investigating water cycle response to a fluctuating climate and changing environment

    B. Cappelaere;Luc Descroix;Thierry Lebel;N. Boulain

  • Remote sensing for groundwater modelling in large semiarid areas: Lake Chad Basin, Africa

    Marc Leblanc;Guillaume Edouard Favreau;Sarah Olivia Tweed;Christain Leduc

  • Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security

    Alan M MacDonald;R Murray Lark;Richard G Taylor;Tamiru Abiye

  • Reconstruction of Megalake Chad using Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission data

    Marc Leblanc;Guillaume Edouard Favreau;Jean Maley;Yahaya Nazoumou

  • Estimate of recharge of a rising water table in semiarid Niger from 3H and 14C modeling.

    Guillaume Favreau;Guillaume Favreau;Christian Leduc;Christelle Marlin;Martial Dray

  • Measurements of water vapor isotope ratios with wavelength-scanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy technology: new insights and important caveats for deuterium excess measurements in tropical areas in comparison with isotope-ratio mass spectrometry

    Guillaume Tremoy;Françoise Vimeux;Françoise Vimeux;Olivier Cattani;Salla Mayaki

  • A 1-year longδ18O record of water vapor in Niamey (Niger) reveals insightful atmospheric processes at different timescales

    Guillaume Tremoy;Françoise Vimeux;Françoise Vimeux;Salla Mayaki;Ide Souley

  • AMMA-CATCH, a Critical Zone Observatory in West Africa Monitoring a Region in Transition

    S. Galle;M. Grippa;C. Peugeot;I. Bouzou Moussa

  • Deep infiltration through a sandy alluvial fan in semiarid Niger inferred from electrical conductivity survey, vadose zone chemistry and hydrological modelling

    Sylvain Massuel;Guillaume Favreau;Marc Descloitres;Yann Le Troquer

  • Contribution of magnetic resonance sounding to aquifer characterization and recharge estimate in semiarid Niger

    Jean-Michel Vouillamoz;Guillaume Favreau;Sylvain Massuel;Marie Boucher

  • Estimating specific yield and transmissivity with magnetic resonance sounding in an unconfined sandstone aquifer (Niger)

    Marie Boucher;Guillaume Favreau;Guillaume Favreau;Jean-Michel Vouillamoz;Y. Nazoumou

  • Impacts of hydrological changes in the Mediterranean zone: environmental modifications and rural development in the Merguellil catchment, Central Tunisia

    Christian Leduc;S. Ben Ammar;Guillaume Favreau;Ridha Beji

  • Evidence for Megalake Chad, north-central Africa, during the late quaternary from satellite data

    Marc J. Leblanc;Christian Leduc;Frank Stagnitti;Peter J. van Oevelen

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Leblanc
Marc Leblanc University of Avignon
Marc Descloitres
Marc Descloitres Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bernard Cappelaere
Bernard Cappelaere Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jacques Hinderer
Jacques Hinderer University of Strasbourg
Jean-Paul Boy
Jean-Paul Boy University of Strasbourg
Thierry Lebel
Thierry Lebel Grenoble Alpes University
Olivier Bock
Olivier Bock Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Anatoly Legchenko
Anatoly Legchenko Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Laurent Kergoat
Laurent Kergoat Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Pierre Hiernaux
Pierre Hiernaux Goddard Space Flight Center

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