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Pierre-Henri Blard is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, where their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their body of work encompasses several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Landslides and related hazards

Blard's recent scientific papers illustrate their focus on glacial and paleoclimate studies. Key publications include:

  • "The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Nonlinear forcing of climate on mountain denudation during glaciations," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Deglaciation of northwestern Greenland during Marine Isotope Stage 11," 2023, Science
  • "Antarctic-like temperature variations in the Tropical Andes recorded by glaciers and lakes during the last deglaciation," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as Quaternary Science Reviews, Geomorphology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Quaternary Geochronology, and Basin Research.

Collaborative research is a significant component of their scientific approach, with frequent co-authors including Julien Charreau, Paul R. Bierman, Jean-Louis Tison, Bouchaïb Tibari, and Vincent Jomelli.

Additionally, Pierre-Henri Blard has contributed to the publication of book works, including "Livre Blanc - Paléoclimats et Paléoenvironnements" published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The CREp program and the ICE-D production rate calibration database: A fully parameterizable and updated online tool to compute cosmic-ray exposure ages

    L.C.P. Martin;P.-H. Blard;G. Balco;J. Lavé

  • Sources of in-situ 36Cl in basaltic rocks. Implications for calibration of production rates

    Irene Schimmelpfennig;Lucilla Benedetti;Robert Finkel;Robert Finkel;Raphaël Pik

  • 10Be-derived Himalayan denudation rates and sediment budgets in the Ganga basin

    Maarten Lupker;Maarten Lupker;Pierre-Henri Blard;Jérôme Lavé;Christian France-Lanord

  • Paleo-erosion rates in Central Asia since 9 Ma: A transient increase at the onset of Quaternary glaciations?

    Julien Charreau;P.-H. Blard;N. Puchol;Jean-Philippe Avouac

  • Irregular tropical glacier retreat over the Holocene epoch driven by progressive warming

    Vincent Jomelli;Myriam Khodri;Vincent Favier;Daniel Brunstein

  • Calibration of cosmogenic 36Cl production rates from Ca and K spallation in lava flows from Mt. Etna (38°N, Italy) and Payun Matru (36°S, Argentina)

    Irene Schimmelpfennig;Lucilla Benedetti;Vincent Garreta;Vincent Garreta;Raphaël Pik

  • Lake highstands on the Altiplano (Tropical Andes) contemporaneous with Heinrich 1 and the Younger Dryas: new insights from ^(14)C, U-Th dating and δ^(18)O of carbonates

    P.H. Blard;P.H. Blard;Florence Sylvestre;A.K. Tripati;A.K. Tripati;C. Claude

  • The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination

    David Palacios;Chris R. Stokes;Fred M. Phillips;John J. Clague

  • A major advance of tropical Andean glaciers during the Antarctic cold reversal

    Vincent Jomelli;Vincent Favier;Mathias Vuille;R. Braucher

  • Late local glacial maximum in the Central Altiplano triggered by cold and locally-wet conditions during the paleolake Tauca episode (17–15 ka, Heinrich 1)

    P. H. Blard;P. H. Blard;J. Lave;K. A. Farley;Michel Fornari;Michel Fornari

  • The influence of radiogenic 4He on cosmogenic 3He determinations in volcanic olivine and pyroxene

    P.-H. Blard;K.A. Farley

  • Persistence of full glacial conditions in the central Pacific until 15,000 years ago

    P.-H. Blard;P.-H. Blard;P.-H. Blard;J. Lavé;J. Lavé;R. Pik;P. Wagnon

  • A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century

    Andrew J. Christ;Paul Robert Bierman;Joerg M. Schaefer;Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

  • Major temporal variations in shortening rate absorbed along a large active fold of the southeastern Tianshan piedmont (China)

    Dimitri Saint-Carlier;Julien Charreau;Jérôme Lavé;Pierre-Henri Blard

  • An inter-laboratory comparison of cosmogenic 3He and radiogenic 4He in the CRONUS-P pyroxene standard

    P.-H. Blard;G. Balco;P.G. Burnard;K.A. Farley

  • Cosmogenic 3He production rates revisited from evidences of grain size dependent release of matrix-sited helium

    P.-H. Blard;P.-H. Blard;R. Pik;J. Lavé;D. Bourlès

  • Lag and mixing during sediment transfer across the Tian Shan piedmont caused by climate-driven aggradation-incision cycles

    Luca C. Malatesta;Luca C. Malatesta;Jean Philippe Avouac;Nathan D. Brown;Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach

  • Interlaboratory comparison of cosmogenic 21Ne in quartz

    Pieter Vermeesch;Pieter Vermeesch;Greg Balco;Pierre-Henri Blard;Tibor J. Dunai

  • Cosmogenic 10Be production rate calibrated against 3He in the high Tropical Andes (3800–4900 m, 20–22° S)

    P.-H. Blard;R. Braucher;J. Lavé;D. Bourlès

  • Nonlinear forcing of climate on mountain denudation during glaciations

    Apolline Mariotti;Pierre-Henri Blard;Pierre-Henri Blard;Julien Charreau;Samuel Toucanne

  • Cosmogenic 3He production rate in the high tropical Andes (3800 m, 20°S): Implications for the local last glacial maximum

    P. H. Blard;J. Lave;Florence Sylvestre;C. J. Placzek

Frequent Co-Authors

Raphaël Pik
Raphaël Pik University of Lorraine
Jérôme Lavé
Jérôme Lavé University of Lorraine
Didier Bourlès
Didier Bourlès Aix-Marseille University
Régis Braucher
Régis Braucher Aix-Marseille University
Vincent Jomelli
Vincent Jomelli Aix-Marseille University
Stéphane Dominguez
Stéphane Dominguez University of Montpellier
Joerg M. Schaefer
Joerg M. Schaefer Columbia University
David L. Shuster
David L. Shuster University of California, Berkeley
Lucilla Benedetti
Lucilla Benedetti Aix-Marseille University
Greg Balco
Greg Balco Berkeley Geochronology Center

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