| Assistant Professor Isabelle Coutand |
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icoutand @ dal.ca
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Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University
1459 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3H 4R2
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| Office: |
Life Sciences Centre
3rd floor, Biology / Earth Sciences Wing [plan]
Rm. 3015
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| Telephone: |
902 494-7827
902 494-6889 (fax)
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| Groups: |
Dalhousie
Geochronology Centre
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CV (PDF) |
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| Current Research
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Interactions tectonics, climate and erosion; Mountain ranges development; Detrital and in situ thermochronology.
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| Education |
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 PhD, Geosciences Rennes, France (1999)
DEA, Geosciences Rennes, France (1995)
Undergraduate Studies, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Nantes, France (1994)
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| Teaching |
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ERTH1080 Geology I
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| Selected Publications |
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Hilley, G.E., Coutand, I., Links between topography, erosion, rheological heterogeneity, and deformation in contractional settings: Insights from the central Andes, 2009, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.06.017.
M.R. Strecker, R. Alonso, B. Bookhagen, B. Carrapa, I. Coutand, M.P. Hain, G.E. Hilley, E. Mortimer, L. Schoenbohm and E.R. Sobel , 2009, Does the topographic distribution of the central Andean Puna Plateau result from climatic or geodynamic processes?, Geology , doi: 10.1130/G25545A.1, 37;643-646.
Coutand I., B. Carrapa, A. Deeken, A. Schmitt, E. Sobel, and M. Strecker, 2006 : Propagation of orographic barriers along an active range front: Insights from sandstone petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the Intramontane Angastaco basin, NW Argentina. Basin Research, v. 18, p. 1-26, doi : 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00283.x.
Grujic D., I. Coutand, B. Bookhagen, S. Bonnet, A. Blythe, and C. Duncan 2006: Climatic forcing of the erosion, landscape and tectonics in the Bhutan Himalayas. Geology, v. 34, no 10, p. 801-804, doi: 10.1130/G22648.1.
Deeken A., E. Sobel, I. Coutand, M. Haschke, U. Riller, and M. Strecker, 2006 : Development of the southern Eastern Cordillera, NW-Argentina, constrained by AFT-thermochronology: from early Cretaceous extension to middle Miocene shortening. Tectonics, v. 25, TC6003, doi:10.1029/2005TC001894.
Alonso, R. N., B. Carrapa, I. Coutand, M. Haschke, G. E. Hilley, E. R. Sobel, M. R. Strecker, and M. H. Trauth (2006), Tectonics, climate, and landscape evolution of the southern central Andes: The Argentine Puna Plateau and adjacent regions between 22 and 28 S lat, in The Andes: Active Subduction Orogeny, Frontiers Earth Sci., edited by O. Oncken et al., pp. 265 – 283, Springer, New York.
Mortimer E., B. Carrapa, I. Coutand, L. Schoenbohm, E. Sobel, M.R. Strecker, J. Sosa Gomez : Fragmentation of a foreland basin in response to out-of-sequence basement uplifts and structural reactivation: El Cajon-Campo del Arenal basin, NW Argentina, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119, no 5/6, p. 637-653, doi: 10.1130/B25884.1.
Biswas S., I. Coutand, D. Grujic, C. Hager, D. Stockli, and B. Grasemann, Exhumation and uplift of the Shillong plateau and its influence on the eastern Himalayas: new constraints from apatite and zircon (U-Th-[Sm])/He and apatite fission track analyses, Tectonics, v. 26, TC6013, doi:10.1029/2007TC002125.
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| Positions |
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Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, 2009 - present
Director Fission Track Lab, Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, 2009 - present
Visiting Researcher Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, USA. 09-2007 - 12-2008
Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, USA. 09-2006 - 09-2007
Visiting Researcher Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland., 06-2006 - 09-2006
Honorary Research Associate Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada., 2004 - 2008
Assistant Professor University of Lille 1, France - Setup and director of a fission-track laboratory., 02-2002 - 12-2008
Postdoctoral fellow Potsdam University, Germany, 09-2000 - 02-2002
Research assistant and assistant lecturer Géosciences Rennes, France., 1999 - 2000
Graduate Lecturer Assistant Géosciences Rennes, France., 1995 - 1999
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| Current Students |
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Kyle Landry (B. Sc. Honours candidate, 2009): Pliocene exhumation of the Trumsing La area (Bhutan) as documented by (U-Th)/He thermochronometry.
(in collaboration with M.G. Fellin, ETH Zürich)
Michael Doon (B. Sc. Honours candidate, 2009): Detrital thermochronology (40Ar/39Ar on muscovite) of the Rangit window, Sikkim Himalaya (co-supervised with D. Grujic).
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| Graduated Students |
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| Activities |
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Honours Field Trip 2009 (co-organized with D. Grujic): The Swiss Alps: From the Bottom to the Top
Honours student 2009 at Gornergrat with the Cervin (Matterhorn) in background
Back row (l to r): Djordje Grujic, Nicholas Whynot, Jordan Nickerson, Kyle Landry, Joshua Manning, Michael Doon, Adam Fraser, Matthew Abram, Nathan Brooks.
Front row, (l to r): Hayley Pothier, Jessica Wilson, Nicole Peters, Jenn Noade, Isabelle Coutand
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| Awards |
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2007-2008 Sabbatical leave (French National Science Foundation, CNRS).
2007-2008 France-Stanford Center Research Fellowship.
2006-2007 Fulbright Research Fellowship.
2006-2007 France-Stanford Center Research Fellowship.
2004 Travel grants (Comité National Français de Géologie).
2000-2002 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship.
1999 Travel grants (Comité National Français de Géologie).
1995-1998 Ministère de la Recherche et Technologie doctoral fellowship.
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