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Jean-Jacques Braun is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences with a concentration on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Oceanography, Soil Science, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their work encompasses several key topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Groundwater and Watershed Analysis, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, and Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.

Jean-Jacques Braun has contributed to a number of recent papers, illustrating a focus on water resources, environmental impacts, and geochemical processes. Notable publications include:

  • Potash fertilizer promotes incipient salinization in groundwater irrigated semi-arid agriculture, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The 21st August 2020 Flood in Douala (Cameroon): A Major Urban Flood Investigated with 2D HEC-RAS Modeling, 2022, Water
  • Hydro-climatology study of the Ogooué River basin using hydrological modeling and satellite altimetry, 2020, Advances in Space Research
  • Stable Carbon Isotopes δ13C as a Proxy for Characterizing Carbon Sources and Processes in a Small Tropical Headwater Catchment: Nsimi, Cameroon, 2020, Aquatic Geochemistry
  • Ecological plasticity to ions concentration determines genetic response and dominance of Anopheles coluzzii larvae in urban coastal habitats of Central Africa, 2021, Scientific Reports

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Scientific Reports, Water, Hydrological Processes, The Science of The Total Environment, and Gondwana Research, with multiple publications in each of these venues.

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Sakaros Bogning, Raphaël Onguéné, Jacques Étamé, Henriette Ateba Bessa, and Frédéric Frappart.

Best Publications

  • Cerium anomalies in lateritic profiles

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Maurice Pagel;Jean-Pierre Muller;Paul Bilong

  • Mobilization and redistribution of REEs and thorium in a syenitic lateritic profile: A mass balance study

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Mauric Pagel;Adrie Herbilln;Christophe Rosin

  • SOLID/LIQUID REE FRACTIONATION IN THE LATERITIC SYSTEM OF GOYOUM, EAST CAMEROON: THE IMPLICATION FOR THE PRESENT DYNAMICS OF THE SOIL COVERS OF THE HUMID TROPICAL REGIONS

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Jérôme Viers;Bernard Dupré;Mireille Polve

  • Chemical weathering in the drainage basin of a tropical watershed (Nsimi-Zoetele site, Cameroon) : comparison between organic-poor and organic-rich waters

    Jerôme Viers;Bernard Dupré;Mireille Polvé;Jacques Schott

  • Major and trace elements associated with colloids in organic-rich river waters: ultrafiltration of natural and spiked solutions

    Bernard Dupré;Jerôme Viers;Jean-Louis Dandurand;Mireille Polve

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • Major and trace element abundances, and strontium isotopes in the Nyong basin rivers (Cameroon): constraints on chemical weathering processes and elements transport mechanisms in humid tropical environments

    Jérôme Viers;Bernard Dupré;Jean-Jacques Braun;Samuel Deberdt

  • The effect of organic matter on chemical weathering: study of a small tropical watershed: nsimi-zoétélé site, cameroon

    Priscia Oliva;Jerôme Viers;Bernard Dupré;Jean Pôl Fortuné

  • Present weathering rates in a humid tropical watershed: Nsimi, South Cameroon

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Jules Remy Ndam Ngoupayou;Jérôme Viers;Bernard Dupre

  • Characterization of seasonal local recharge using electrical resistivity tomography and magnetic resonance sounding

    Marc Descloitres;Marc Descloitres;Laurent Ruiz;Laurent Ruiz;M. Sekhar;Anatoly Legchenko

  • Regolith mass balance inferred from combined mineralogical, geochemical and geophysical studies: Mule Hole gneissic watershed, South India

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Marc Descloitres;Jean Riotte;Simon Fleury

  • Contribution of phytoliths to the suspended load of biogenic silica in the Nyong basin rivers (Cameroon)

    Lise Cary;Anne Alexandre;Jean-Dominique Meunier;Jean-Loup Boeglin

  • Controls on intense silicate weathering in a tropical river, southwestern India

    G. P. Gurumurthy;K. Balakrishna;Jean Riotte;Jean Riotte;Jean Jacques Braun;Jean Jacques Braun

  • Monitoring Water Levels and Discharges Using Radar Altimetry in an Ungauged River Basin: The Case of the Ogooué

    Sakaros Bogning;Frédéric Frappart;Fabien Blarel;Fernando Niño

  • Limited iron isotope variations in recent lateritic soils from Nsimi, Cameroon: Implications for the global Fe geochemical cycle

    Franck Poitrasson;Jérôme Viers;François Martin;Jean-Jacques Braun;Jean-Jacques Braun

  • Water balance modelling in a tropical watershed under deciduous forest (Mule Hole, India): Regolith matric storage buffers the groundwater recharge process

    Laurent Ruiz;Laurent Ruiz;Murari R.R. Varma;M.S. Mohan Kumar;M. Sekhar

  • Groundwater resource vulnerability and spatial variability of nitrate contamination: Insights from high density tubewell monitoring in a hard rock aquifer

    Sriramulu Buvaneshwari;Jean Riotte;Jean Riotte;M Sekhar;M S Mohan Kumar

  • Elemental weathering fluxes and saprolite production rate in a Central African lateritic terrain (Nsimi, South Cameroon)

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Jean-Jacques Braun;Jean-Christophe Marechal;Jean Riotte;Jean Riotte;Jean-Loup Boeglin

  • Potash fertilizer promotes incipient salinization in groundwater irrigated semi-arid agriculture

    Sriramulu Buvaneshwari;Jean Riotte;Jean Riotte;Muddu Sekhar;Amit Kumar Sharma;Amit Kumar Sharma

  • Assessment of the 1% Na2CO3 technique to quantify the phytolith pool

    Jean Dominique Meunier;Catherine Keller;Flore Guntzer;Jean Riotte

  • Resolution of MRS applied to the characterization of hard-rock aquifers.

    Anatoly Legchenko;Marc Descloitres;Adelphe Bost;Laurent Ruiz

  • Indirect and direct recharges in a tropical forested watershed: Mule Hole, India

    Jean-Christophe Maréchal;Murari R.R. Varma;Jean Riotte;Jean-Michel Vouillamoz

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Ruiz
Laurent Ruiz Indian Institute of Science
Marc Descloitres
Marc Descloitres Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bernard Dupré
Bernard Dupré Paul Sabatier University
Jérôme Viers
Jérôme Viers Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jean-Dominique Meunier
Jean-Dominique Meunier Centre for Research and Teaching in Environmental Geoscience
Vincent Regard
Vincent Regard Paul Sabatier University
Sébastien Carretier
Sébastien Carretier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Julien Bouchez
Julien Bouchez Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Mireille Polvé
Mireille Polvé Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Patrick Durand
Patrick Durand Institut Agro, France

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