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Marie-Françoise André

Marie-Françoise André is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Marie-Françoise André rather than just read about it. In short: Marie-Françoise André (born 1953 in Paris) is a French geographer and geomorphologist specialising in landscape architecture in the polar regions (Labrador, Spitsbergen, Lapland, Antarctica). She also researched stone erosion in the context of heritage preservation, particularly in Angkor.

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Reference excerpt

Marie-Françoise André (born 1953 in Paris) is a French geographer and geomorphologist specialising in landscape architecture in the polar regions (Labrador, Spitsbergen, Lapland, Antarctica). She also researched stone erosion in the context of heritage preservation, particularly in Angkor. Her work was awarded the silver medal from CNRS, the French national centre for scientific research.

Biography André completed her third-cycle thesis on the geomorphological evolution of Northern Labrador in 1981. Her state doctoral thesis was focused on the evolution of slopes in Spitsbergen. Advised by Alain Godard, she defended the thesis in 1991. A teacher-researcher in geomorphology, she was a member of CNRS's URA 1562 team in Clermont-Ferrand in 1993. That same year, she joined the newly founded Physical and Environmental Geography Laboratory (GEOLAB) in the same year. She was director of GEOLAB for nine years, from 1998-2007. She studied landscape changes over time and the influence of climatic variations in Swedish Lapland and the Antarctic Peninsula. She also published epistemological work on geomorphology and French research on the poles. She lectured at the University of Limoges in 1994. From 1997-2016 she was a professor of geography at Blaise Pascal University. In the 2010s, André conducted research on stone erosion in historic monuments. As part of the multidisciplinary Ta Keo project in Angkor her team used photogrammetry and geomatics to demonstrate deforestation had contributed to the temple's deterioration. For work on the degradation of monuments, as well as developing links between geomorphology and heritage, she was awarded a silver medal from CNRS. She continued her research in the French Massif Central, in Southern America's Guyana and in the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Cyprus. She was a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France) from 2010–2015. On 1 January 2017, Blaise Pascal University became part of the University Clermont Auvergne, where she continued to teach. She is a member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (Academy of Overseas Sciences). Currently a Professor Emeritus, André is a doctoral advisor for student theses and publishes about polar landscapes.

Awards CNRS silver medal (2011)

Publications Monique Fort, Marie-Françoise André (2016-10-02). Landscapes and Landforms of France. Springer. p. 296. ISBN 978-9402406696. Alain Godard, Marie-Françoise André (2013-07-30). Les milieux polaires. Armand Colin. p. 460. Fabienne Lemarchand, Marie-Françoise André et Frédérique Rémy (2011-11-24). Cap sur les pôles : 100 questions sur les mondes polaires. Omniscience. p. 222. Le monde polaire : Mutations et transitions. Ellipses. 2005-12-14. p. 187.

Notes and references

External links Page on the website of the Physical and Environmental Geography Laboratory Archived 2016-08-27 at the Wayback Machine

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Marie-Françoise André

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Marie-Françoise André ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Marie-Françoise André

In research: Marie-Françoise André appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Marie-Françoise André in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Marie-Françoise André is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1953 births, Academic staff of Blaise Pascal University, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Marie-Françoise André outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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