LéXPLORE Publications

2025 (3)

White, M E and others. (2025) Seasonally Dynamic Dissolved Carbon Cycling in a Large Hard Water Lake. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosciences 130: e2024JG008645. doi:10.1029/2024JG008645

Gupana, R S, D Odermatt, A I Rahaghi, C Minaudo, M Werther, C Giardino, and A Damm (2025) Remote sensing of sun-induced fluorescence in a deep lake: Disentangling quenching mechanisms improves relationship with chlorophyll-a concentration estimates. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote Sens. 1–20. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3528911

Niveen Ismail, Paul Seguin, Lola Pricam, Elisabeth M.L Janssen, Tamar Kohn, Bas W. Ibelings, Anna Carratalà (2025) Seasonality of cyanobacteria and eukaryotes in Lake Geneva and the impacts of cyanotoxins on growth of the model ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis. Aquatic Toxicology, Volume 279, February 2025, 107262. doi:10.1126/sciadv.ado5924

2024 (4)

Many G, Escoffier N, Perolo P, Bärenbold F, Bouffard D, Perga M-E (2024) Calcite precipitation: The forgotten piece of lakes’ carbon cycle. Science Advances 10: eado5924. doi:10.1126/sciadv.ado5924

Khatun S, Berg JS, Jézéquel D, Moiron M, Escoffier N, Schubert CJ, Bouffard D, Perga M-E (2024) Long-range transport of littoral methane explains the metalimnetic methane peak in a large lake. Limnology and Oceanography. doi.org/10.1002/lno.12652

Zhou L, Masset T, Breider F (2024) Adsorption of copper by naturally and artificially aged polystyrene microplastics and subsequent release in simulated gastrointestinal fluid. Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 26, 411-420. doi.org/10.1039/D3EM00354J

Irani Rahaghi A, Odermatt D, Anneville O, Sepúlveda Steiner O, Reiss RS, Amadori M,…, & Bouffard D (2024) Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 229. doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01351-5

 

2023 (7)

Cotte, G, Soulignac F, dos Santos Correia F, Fallet M, Ibelings BW, Barry DA, Vennemann TW, 2023. Controlling factors of phytoplankton distribution in the river–lake transition zone of a large lake. Aquatic Sciences 85, 37. doi.org/10.1007/s00027-023-00934-2

Carratalà A, Chappelier C, Selmoni O, Guillaume AS, Chmiel HE, Pasche N, Weil C, Kohn T, Joost S, 2023. Vertical distribution and seasonal dynamics of planktonic cyanobacteria communities in a water column of deep mesotrophic Lake Geneva. Front. Microbiol. 14:1295193. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1295193

Dos Santos Correia F, 2023. Re-oligotrophication and its impacts on phytoplankton and zooplankton of Lake Geneva: an ecological analysis. University of Geneva.

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

Lehmann MK, Gurlin D, Pahlevan N, Alikas K, Conroy T, Anstee J, Balasubramanian SV, Barbosa CCF, Binding C, Bracher A, Bresciani M, Burtner A, et al., 2023. GLORIA – A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality. Sci Data 10:100. doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01973-y

Perolo P, Escoffier N, Chmiel HE, Many G, Bouffard D, Perga M-E, 2023. Alkalinity contributes at least a third of annual gross primary production in a deep stratified hardwater lake. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 8:359-367. doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10311

Zhang H, Haltiner L, Kaeser S, Dennis SR, Rothhaupt K-O, Kraemer BM, Spaak P, 2023. Veliger density and environmental conditions control quagga mussel colonization rates in two perialpine lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 49:809–820. doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2023.05.001

 

2022 (10)

Escoffier N, Perolo P, Lambert T, Rüegg J, Odermatt D, Adatte T, Vennemann T, Perga M-E, 2022. Whiting Events in a Large Peri-Alpine Lake: Evidence of a Catchment-Scale Process. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127:e2022JG006823. doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006823

Foroughan M, Lemmin U, Barry DA, 2022. Effects of natural surfactants on the spatial variability of surface water temperature under intermittent light winds on Lake Geneva. Journal of Limnology 81:2048. doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2048

Foroughan M, Hamze-Ziabari SM, Lemmin U, Barry DA, 2022a. A Persistent Submesoscale Frontal Slick: A Novel Marker of the Mesoscale Flow Field in a Large Lake (Lake Geneva). Geophysical Research Letters 49:e2022GL100262. doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100262

Gallorini A, Loizeau J-L, 2022. Lake snow as a mercury methylation micro-environment in the oxic water column of a deep peri-alpine lake. Chemosphere 299:134306. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134306

Gupana RS, Damm A, Rahaghi AI, Minaudo C, Odermatt D, 2022. Non-photochemical quenching estimates from in situ spectroradiometer measurements: implications on remote sensing of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in lakes. Opt. Express, OE 30:46762–46781. doi.org/10.1364/OE.469402

Hamze-Ziabari SM, Razmi AM, Lemmin U, Barry DA, Detecting submesoscale cold filaments in a basin-scale gyre in large, deep Lake Geneva (Switzerland/France). Geophysical Research Letters:e2021GL096185. doi.org/10.3390/rs14194967

Hamze-Ziabari SM, Foroughan M, Lemmin U, Barry DA, 2022. Monitoring Mesoscale to Submesoscale Processes in Large Lakes with Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery: The Case of Lake Geneva. Remote Sensing 14:4967. doi.org/10.3390/rs14194967

Li C, Odermatt D, Bouffard D, Wüest A, Kohn T, 2022. Coupling remote sensing and particle tracking to estimate trajectories in large water bodies. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 110:102809. doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102809

Safin A, Bouffard D, Ozdemir F, Ramón CL, Runnalls J, Georgatos F, Minaudo C, Šukys J, 2022. A Bayesian data assimilation framework for lake 3D hydrodynamic models with a physics-preserving particle filtering method using SPUX-MITgcm v1. Geoscientific Model Development 15:7715–7730. doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7715-2022

Werther M, Odermatt D, Simis SGH, Gurlin D, Lehmann MK, Kutser T, Gupana R, Varley A, Hunter PD, Tyler AN, Spyrakos E, 2022. A Bayesian approach for remote sensing of chlorophyll-a and associated retrieval uncertainty in oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes. Remote Sensing of Environment 283:113295. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113295

 

2021 (8)

El Serafy GYH, Schaeffer BA, Neely M-B, Spinosa A, Odermatt D, Weathers KC, Baracchini T, Bouffard D, Carvalho L, Conmy RN, Keukelaere LD, Hunter PD, et al., 2021. Integrating Inland and Coastal Water Quality Data for Actionable Knowledge. Remote Sensing 13:2899. doi.org/10.3390/rs13152899

Fernández Castro B, Bouffard D, Troy C, Ulloa HN, Piccolroaz S, Sepúlveda Steiner O, Chmiel HE, Serra Moncadas L, Lavanchy S, Wüest A, 2021. Seasonality modulates wind-driven mixing pathways in a large lake.Commun Earth Environ 2:215. doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00288-3

Fernández Castro B, Chmiel HE, Minaudo C, Krishna S, Perolo P, Rasconi S, Wüest A, 2021. Primary and Net Ecosystem Production in a Large Lake Diagnosed From High‐Resolution Oxygen Measurements. Water Res 57:e2020WR029283. doi/10.1029/2020WR029283

Minaudo C, Odermatt D, Bouffard D, Rahaghi AI, Lavanchy S, Wüest A, 2021. The Imprint of Primary Production on High-Frequency Profiles of Lake Optical Properties. Environ. Sci. Technol. 55:14234–14244. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02585

Perolo P, Fernández Castro B, Escoffier N, Lambert T, Bouffard D, Perga M-E, 2021. Accounting for surface waves improves gas flux estimation at high wind speed in a large lake. Earth System Dynamics 12:1169–1189.doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1169-2021

Rahaghi AI, Minaudo C, Damm A, Odermatt D, 2021. Optical Closure of Remote Sensing Reflectance Using Automated Hyperspectral Profiler Data. In: 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, Brussels, Belgium, 2021, pp. 6832-6835, doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554464

Steinsberger T, Wüest A, Müller B, 2021. Net Ecosystem Production of Lakes Estimated From Hypolimnetic Organic Carbon Sinks. Water Res 57:1–16. doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029473

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

 

Thèses doctorales (8)

Gupana RS, 2023. Remote Sensing of Sun-induced Chlorophyll-a Fluorescence in Optically Complex Waters. PhD Thesis, University of Zurich. http://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/253492/

Hamze Ziabari M, 2023. Quantifying Systematic Lateral Variability of Dissolved Oxygen Induced by Complex (Sub)mesoscale Circulation Interplay in a Large Lake. In Unraveling submesoscale processes associated with meso- and basin-scale gyres in Lake Geneva. PhD Thesis (Chap 7). EPFL no 10293. www.doi.org/10.5075/epfl-thesis-10293

Perolo P, 2022. Physical and biogeochemical processes regulating the dynamics of surface CO2 in a large and deep hardwater lake. PhD Thesis: Uni. Lausanne. serval:BIB_9DE85404D454

Hervás de Nalda-Larivé O, 2022. Effect of lake exposure on a population of enteroviruses. In Effect of wastewater treatment and environmental exposure on an enterovirus population. PhD Thesis (Chap 4). EPFL no 8985. doi.org/10.5075/epfl-thesis-8985

Werther M, 2022. A Bayesian approach for remote sensing of chlorophyll-a in oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes. In Remote sensing of phytoplankton biomass in oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes: addressing estimation uncertainty through machine learning. PhD Thesis (Chap 3): University of Sterling. dspace.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/34621

Gallorini A, 2022. Hypoxic and anoxic micro-environments in the water column of a peri-alpine lake: the potential role of lake snow in Hg methylation. In Role of Lake Snow in the Methylmercury cycle of a Deep Lake. PhD Thesis (Chap 3): Uni. Geneva, no. Sc. 5658. doi: 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:162094

Haltiner A, 2022. Veliger density and environmental conditions control quagga mussel colonization rates in two perialpine lakes. In Ecological and evolutionary aspects of invasive quagga mussels in deep perialpine lakes. PhD Thesis (Chap 2). ETHZ no 28906. doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000599405

Cotte G, 2021. Processes driving nutrient dispersion in Lake Geneva during the stratification period (study using the LéXPLORE platform). In Mixing of Rhône River water in Lake Geneva (Léman): Implications on the biogeochemistry of the lake. PhD Thesis (Chap 3). Uni. Lausanne. serval:BIB_A16B0E629D4F