Natacha Tofield Pasche

Dr. Natacha Tofield Pasche
Operational Director
EPFL ENAC LIMNC
Limnology Center
EPF Lausanne
GR A2 435 (Bâtiment GR) Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

Mailing Address:
EPFL ENAC LIMNC
Limnology Center
EPF Lausanne
Station 2
-1015 Lausanne



Phone: +41 (0) 21 693 59 43
E-mail: natacha.tofield-pasche(at)epfl.ch
URL Institution: https://limnc.epfl.ch
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
Member of the scientific committee from CIPEL (www.cipel.org)
Member of the committee from Swiss Hydrological and Limnological Society


Key Publications of Natacha Tofield Pasche (up to ten) :
Escoffier N, Perolo P, Many G, Tofield Pasche N, Perga M-E, 2023. Fine-scale dynamics of calcite precipitation in a large hardwater lake. Science of The Total Environment 864:160699. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160699

Fabrice Amisi M, Pascal Mulungula M, Tchalondawa Kisse K, Charles Muhigirwa B, Natacha P, Béni Lwikitcha H, Ruhanamirindi Eric M, Balagizi Désiré A, Déo N, Migeni AZ, Smith S, Wüest A, et al., 2022. Current status and strategic way forward for long-term management of Lake Kivu (East Africa). Journal of Great Lakes Research.

Wüest A, Bouffard D, Guillard J, Ibelings BW, Lavanchy S, Perga M-E, Pasche N, 2021. LéXPLORE: A floating laboratory on Lake Geneva offering unique lake research opportunities. WIREs Water 8:e1544. doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1544

Pasche N, Hofmann H, Bouffard D, Schubert CJ, Lozovik PA, Sobek S (2019): Implications of river intrusion and convective mixing on the spatial and temporal variability of under-ice CO2. Inland Waters 9 (2): 62-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2019.1568073

Wüest A, Pasche N, Ibelings B, Sharma S and Filatov NN (2019): Life under ice in Lake Onego (Russia) – an interdisciplinary winter limnology study. Inland Waters 9 (2): 125-129, editorial. https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2019.1634450

Chmiel HE, Hofmann H, Sobek S, Efremova TA, and Pasche N (2019): Where does the river end? Drivers of spatiotemporal variability in CO2 concentration and flux in the inflow area of a large boreal lake. Limnology and oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11378

Thomas C, Frossard V, Perga M-E, Tofield-Pasche N, Hilmar Hofmann H, Dubois N, Belkina N, Zobkova M, Robert S, and Lyautey E (2019): Lateral variations and vertical structure of the microbial methane cycle in the sediment of Lake Onego (Russia). Inland Waters 9 (2): 205-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2018.1500227

Worms IAM, Chmiel HE, Traber J, Tofield-Pasche N and Slaveykova VI (2019): Dissolved organic matter and associated trace metal dynamics from river to lake, under ice-covered and ice-free conditions. Environmental Science & Technology 53 (24): 14134-14143. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b02184

Bouffard D, Zdorovennov RE, Zdorovennova GE, Pasche N, Wüest A, and Terzhevik AY (2016): Ice-covered Lake Onega: effects of radiation on convection and internal waves. Hydrobiologia 780: 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2915-3

Pasche N, Schmid M, Vazquez F, Schubert CJ, Kessler JD, Pack MA, Reeburgh WS, and Bürgmann H (2011): Methane sources and sinks in Lake Kivu. Journal of Geophysical Research 116: G03006. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JG001690

Pasche N, Dinkel C, Müller B, Schmid M, Wüest A, and Wehrli B (2009): Physical and biogeochemical limits to internal nutrient loading of meromictic Lake Kivu. Limnology and Oceanography 54: 1863-1873. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.1863

Muvundja FA, Pasche N, Bugenyi FWB, Isumbisho M, Müller B, Namugize J-N, Rinta P, Schmid M, Stierli R and Wüest A (2009): Balancing nutrient inputs to Lake Kivu. Journal of Great Lakes Research 35: 406-415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2009.06.002

Sobek S, Durisch-Kaiser E, Zurbrügg R, Wongfun N, Martin Wessels M, Pasche N, and Wehrli B (2009): Organic carbon burial efficiency in lake sediments controlled by oxygen exposure time and sediment source. Limnology and Oceanography 54: 2243-2254. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.2243


Expertise of Natacha Tofield Pasche:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeApplied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering
Research Interface / Management
ScopeImpact of Change
Topic HydrosphereFresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes
Topic LithosphereSediments: Formation, Dynamics, Metamorphism
Topic Integrated SystemsCarbon Cycle
Biogeochemical Cycles except Carbon
Nutrient Cycle / Food Chain
Topic Economy/ResourceUseEnergy
Water
Time FrameRecent / Today
MethodsData Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis
Program Coordination / Management
GeoForum Geo-TechnologyHydrogeology

Specialties of Natacha Tofield Pasche:
limnology, nutrient cycling, carbon, novel infrastructure LéXPLORE, coordination of multidisciplinary scientific projects, relations with partners, organisation of complex fieldworks

Last update: 11/30/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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