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Lambert Caron

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 300-323

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.354.9193

Fax:

818.393.8065

Member of:

Sea Level And Ice

Scientist

Employed By

Caltech/JPL

Education

  • PhD. In Geophysics, IPGP, Paris, France (2016)
  • Masters degree in Geophysics, IPGP, Paris, France (2012)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Université de la Reunion, France (2010)

Professional Experience

  • NASA Postdoctoral Student, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (2016-present)
  • Assistant teacher, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France (2012-2016)
  • Environmental Geologist, Antea Group, Reunion Island, France, (2009-2010)

Research Interests

  • Glacial isostatic adjustment
  • Sea Level
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Inverse theory

Selected Awards

  • AGU 2014 Outstanding Student Paper Awards

Selected Publications

  1. Ivins, E. R., Caron, L., Adhikari, S., Larour, E., & Scheinert, M. (2020). A Linear Viscoelasticity for Decadal to Centennial Time Scale Mantle Deformation. Reports on Progress in Physics.
  2. Larour, E., Adhikari, S., Frederikse, T., Caron, L., Hamlington, B., Schlegel, N. J., ... & Nowicki, S. (2020). ISSM-SLPS: geodetically compliant Sea-Level Projection System for the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model v4. 17. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 1-24.
  3. Frederikse, T., Landerer, F., Caron, L., Adhikari, S., Parkes, D., Humphrey, V. W., ... & Wu, Y. H. (2020). The causes of sea-level rise since 1900. Nature, 584(7821), 393-397.
  4. Caron, L., & Ivins, E. R. (2020). A baseline Antarctic GIA correction for space gravimetry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 531, 115957
  5. Caron, L., Ivins, E., Kreemer, C., Blewitt, G., Hammond, W. C. (2019). Quantifying the Information Content of Relative Sea-level and Geodetic Data for Constraint on North American GIA Models. In GIA Workshop, Ottawa, Canada, Invited Talk
  6. Frederikse, T., Landerer, F. W., & Caron, L. (2019). The imprints of contemporary mass redistribution on local sea level and vertical land motion observations. Solid Earth, 10(6), 1971-1987.
  7. Larour, E., Seroussi, H., Adhikari, S., Ivins, E., Caron, L., Morlighem, M., & Schlegel, N. (2019). Slowdown in Antarctic mass loss from solid Earth and sea-level feedbacks. Science, 364(6444), eaav7908.
  8. Adhikari, S., Ivins, E. R., Frederikse, T., Landerer, F. W., and Caron, L.: Sea-level fingerprints emergent from GRACE mission data, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 629-646, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-629-2019, 2019.
  9. Cuzzone, J. K., Schlegel, N. J., Morlighem, M., Larour, E., Briner, J. P., Seroussi, H., & Caron, L. (2019). The impact of model resolution on the simulated Holocene retreat of the southwestern Greenland ice sheet using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM). The Cryosphere, 13(3), 879-893.
  10. Caron, L., Ivins, E. R., Larour, E. & Adhikari, S. (2018). Constraints and Uncertainty on Global Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Signal Using a Bayesian Approach. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 15th Annual Meeting, Invited Talk.
  11. Adhikari, S., Caron, L., Steinberger, B., Reager, J. T., Kjeldsen, K. K., Marzeion, B., Larour, L. & Ivins, E. R. (2018). What drives 20th century polar motion?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 502, 126-132.
  12. Hamlington, B. D., Burgos, A., Thompson, P. R., Landerer, F. W., Piecuch, C. G., Adhikari, S., Caron, L., Reager, J.T, & Ivins, E. R. (2018). Observation‐Driven Estimation of the Spatial Variability of 20th Century Sea Level Rise. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(3), 2129-2140.
  13. Caron, L., Ivins, E. R., Larour, E., Adhikari, S., Nilsson, J., & Blewitt, G. (2018). GIA model statistics for GRACE hydrology, cryosphere, and ocean science. Geophysical Research Letters 45.5, 2203-2212.
  14. Caron, L., Métivier, L., Greff-Lefftz, M., Fleitout, L., & Rouby, H. (2017). Inverting Glacial Isostatic Adjustment signal using Bayesian framework and two linearly relaxing rheologies. Geophysical Journal International 209.2, 1126-1147.
  15. Métivier, L., Caron, L., Greff-Lefftz, M., Pajot-Métivier, G., Fleitout, L., & Rouby, H. (2016). Evidence for postglacial signatures in gravity gradients: A clue in lower mantle viscosity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 452, 146-156.
  16. Greff-Lefftz, M., Métivier, L., Panet, I., Caron, L., Pajot-Métivier, G., & Bouman, J. (2016). Joint analysis of GOCE gravity gradients data of gravitational potential and of gravity with seismological and geodynamic observations to infer mantle properties. Geophysical Journal International, 205(1), 257-283.

Projects

ISSM
NASA Sea Level Change Team
CitcomSVE