Valerie Clouard

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Trajectoire

Ingénieur des Travaux Publics option Mécanique-Electricité, Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP Paris, 1988).

Ingénieur de fabrication puis chargé d´étude dans le privé (1988-1995)

D.E.A. en Géophysique, Institut de Physique du Globe (IPG Paris, 1996).

Docteur en Géophysique Interne, Université de la Polynésie Française, 2000.

Postdoc et ATER, Université de la Polynésie Française, 2000-2001.

Postdoc et professeur, Departamento de Geofísica (DGF), Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Univ. de Chile.(2002-2007)

Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) Paris VII, 2005

Observatoire Volcanologique et Simologique de Martinique (2008-..)

Principales publications

Ces articles et leur lien vers les fichiers pdf se trouvent sur la page publications.

Clouard, V., A. Bonneville et H.G. Barsczus, Size and depth of frozen magma chambers under atolls and islands of French Polynesia using detailed gravity data, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 8173-8192, 2000.
Clouard, V. et Bonneville, A. How many Pacific hotspots are fed by deep mantle plumes ? Geology, 29, 695-698, 2001.
Clouard, V., A. Bonneville et P.Y. Gillot, A giant landslide on the southern flank of Tahiti Island, French Polynesia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2253-2256,2001.
A. Bonneville, R. Le Suavé, L. Audin, V. Clouard, L. Dosso, P.-Y. Gillot, P. Janney, K. Jordahl, K. Maamaatuaiahutapu, Arago Seamount: The missing hotspot found in the Austral Islands, Geology, 30, 1023–1026, 2002.
Barruol G., D. Bosch, V. Clouard, E. Debayle, M. P. Doin, F. Fontaine, M. Godard, F. Masson, D. Reymond, A. Tommasi and C. Thoraval, PLUME investigates the South Pacific Superswell, Eos, 83, 511-514, 2002.
Clouard, V., A. Bonneville, A. et P.Y. Gillot, The Tarava seamounts: a newly characterized hotspot chain on the South Pacific Superswell, 207, 117-130, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2003.
Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A., Submarine landslides in Society and Austral Islands, French Polynesia: evolution with the age of edifices, in Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences, edited by J. Locat, and  J. Mienert,pp. 335-341, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A, Submarine Landslides in French Polynesia, In Oceanic Hotspots: intraplate submarine magmatism and tectonism, Eds R. Hekinian, P. Stoffers and J.-L. Cheminé, Springer-Verlag,, pp 209-238, 2004.
Gillot, P.-Y., Hildenbrand, A. and Clouard, V., Comments on ''Epiclastic deposits and ''horseshoe-shaped'' caldeiras in Tahiti (Society Islands) and Ua Huka (Marquesas Archipelago), French Polynesia'' by Clement et al. (2003), J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 136, 159-163, 2004.
Clouard, V., and Bonneville, A, Ages of seamounts, islands and plateaus on the Pacific Plate, In Plates, plumes and paradigms, Eds G.R. Foulger, J. H. Natland,  D. Presnall, and D. L. Anderson, pp. 71-90, Geological Society of America,  Special Paper 388, 2005 .
Clouard, V., Campos, J., Perez, A , Lemoine, A., and Kausel, E., Outer rise stress changes related to the subduction of the Juan Fernandez Ridge, Central Chile. J. Geophys. Res., 112, B05305, doi:10.1029/2005JB003999,  2007.
Clouard, V. and M. Gerbault, Break-up spots: could the Pacific open as a consequence of plate kinematics?, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 265, 195–208, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.013, 2008.
Clouard, V. and M. Gerbault,, Reply to "Break-up spots: Could the Pacific open as a consequence of plate kinematics?" comment by R. Pilger, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 275, 196-199, 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.008, 2008.

Montagner,J-P., V. Clouard, J. Campo, A. Cisternas, M. Gerbault, B. Romanowicz, Earthquakes in subduction zones: A multidisciplinary approach, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 175, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.03.001, 1-2, 2009.