Hélène HOREN
Doctor in geology, Assistant profesor
Speciality: Pedology, oxides mineralogy, rock magnetism
Team: GEP
helene.horen@u-picardie.fr
Key words
Soil, past land use, forest, historic ecology, geochemistry, mineralogy, pedological dynamics
Recent or current projects
- Characterisation of Fe-Cr oxides in soils developped on serpentinites under temperate climate.
- Impact of past land uses on podzolic pedosystem (Compiègne, North France)
- Variability of lœss-derived soils in northern France
Teaching
Degree
Pedology, hydrogeology (professional degree: Agronomy and Sustainable development)
Geology of France (degree in teaching Biology and Geology)
Masters Degree
Epistemology (Masters degree in teaching Biology and Geology)
Soil and Environment (Masters degree: Eco. Agro. Biodiversity)
Water Management (Masters degree: Eco. Agro. Biodiversity)
Directions or joint managements of thesis
Joint management of Thomas Feiss’ thesis: “Eco-pedological approach to the history of forest soils and past use land” since October 2011
Recent publications
Carlut, J., K. Benzerara, H. Horen, N. Menguy, D. Janots, N. Findling, A. Addad, and I. Machouk, Microscopy study of biologically mediated alteration of natural mid oceanic ridge basalts and magnetic implications J. Geophys. Res., 115, 2010.
Soubrand-Colin, M., H. Horen and A. Courtin-Nomade, Spinels weathering in andic soils developed on basaltic rocks under temperate climate, Geoderma, 149, 27-32, 2009.
C.Honsho, J.Dyment, K. Tamaki, M. Ravilly, H.Horen, and Pascal Gente, Magnetic structure of a slow spreading ridge segment: Insights from near-bottom magnetic measurements on board a submersible, J. of Geophys. Res., 114, 2009