Cécile Nelly Pellet
PhD in physical Geography, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
cecile.pellet@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 9385
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8810-5349
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Research Associate,
Department of Geosciences
PER 14 bu. 3.336
Ch. du Musée 4
1700 Fribourg -
Senior Researcher,
Department of Geosciences
PER 14 bu. 3.336
Ch. du Musée 4
1700 Fribourg
Biography
Research projects:
- Permafrost monitoring of Switzerland (PERMOS) - Current Project (2018 - )
- CRYO-SPIRIT: Understanding and preparing in a rapidly changing high-mountain environment - a collaborative scientific effort of two small mountain countries Bhutan and Switzerland - Current Project (2023 - 2027)
- Rock glacier dynamics in the Swiss Alps: evolution and drivers at multiple spatio-temporal scales (RoDynAlpS) - Current Project (2023 - 2027)
- Permafrost climate change initiative project (CCI permafrost) Phase 2 - Current Project (2023 - 2026)
- Rock glacier inventories and kinematics (RGIK) - Current Project (2021 - 2023)
- IPA Action group "Towards an international database of geoelectrical surveys on permafrost" (IDGSP) - Current Project (2020 - 2023)
- IPA action group "Rock glacier inventories and kinematics" (RGIK) - Current Project (2018 - 2023)
- Rock glacier inventory of Switzerland (SwissRG2020) - Current Project (2019 - 2023)
- Permafrost monitoring by reprocessing and repeating historical geophysical measurements (REP-ERT) - Completed Projet (2019 - 2021)
- Permafrost climate change initiative project (CCI permafrost) Phase 1 - Completed Project (2018 - 2021)
- Soil moisture in mountainous terrain and its influence on the thermal regime in seasonal and permanently frozen terrains (SOMOMOUNT) - Project Completed (2013 - 2017)
Research and publications
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1. Peer-reviewed publications
12 publications
Rock Glacier Inventories (RoGIs) in 12 areas worldwide using a multi-operator consensus-based procedure
Earth System Science Data (2025) | Journal article20-year permafrost evolution documented through petrophysical joint inversion, thermal and soil moisture data
Environmental Research Letters (2024) | Journal articleLong-term energy balance measurements at three different mountain permafrost sites in the Swiss Alps
Earth System Science Data (2022) | Journal articleSwiss Permafrost Bulletin 2021
Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network , Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network (PERMOS) (2022) | OtherBest Practice for Measuring Permafrost Temperature in Boreholes Based on the Experience in the Swiss Alps
Frontiers in Earth Science (2021) | Journal articleSwiss Permafrost Bulletin 2019/2020
Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network , Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network (PERMOS) (2021) | OtherSwiss Permafrost Bulletin 2018/2019
Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network , Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network (PERMOS) (2020) | OtherMountain permafrost degradation documented through a network of permanent electrical resistivity tomography sites
The Cryosphere (2019) | Journal articlePermafrost in Switzerland 2014/2015 to 2017/2018, Glaciological Report No. 16-19
Editors: Noetzli, J. and Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network (PERMOS) , Cryospheric Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (2019) | OtherMonitoring soil moisture from middle to high elevation in Switzerland: set-up and first results from the SOMOMOUNT network
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (2017) | Journal article -
2. Conference contributions
14 publications
Steps towards consistent production of Rock Glacier Velocity (RGV): comparison and assessment of challenges from three technical approaches
Philipp Bernhard, Sebastián Vivero, Cécile Pellet, Line Rouyet, Sebastian Buchelt, Diego Cusicanqui, Reynald Delaloye, Thibaut Duvanel, Lea Hartl, Yan Hu, Mohd. Ataullah Raza Khan, Christophe Lambiel, Mengze Li, Lea Schmid, Gernot Seier, Tazio Strozzi, Zhangyu Sun, Lotte Wendt, (2025) | PreprintInsight into subsurface - quantification of alpine heat waves and their impact on high mountain permafrost
Tomasz Gluzinski, Christian Hauck, Christin Hilbich, Coline Mollaret, Cécile Pellet, (2025) | Preprint25 years permafrost monitoring in the Swiss Alps
Jeannette Noetzli, Cécile Pellet, (2025) | PreprintMulti-annual Rock Glacier Velocity (RGV) products based on InSAR
Lea Schmid, Line Rouyet, Reynald Delaloye, Cécile Pellet, Nina Jones, Tazio Strozzi, (2025) | PreprintLong-term refraction seismic monitoring: a reliable method to detect ground ice loss at mountain permafrost sites
Coline Mollaret, Christin Hilbich, Bernd Etzelmüller, Ketil Isaksen, Sarah Morard, Cécile Pellet, Christian Hauck, (2025) | PreprintState of permafrost in the Swiss Alps in 2023
Cécile Pellet, Jeannette Noetzli, (2025) | PreprintA database integrating the electrical resistivity data of Switzerland for mountain permafrost spatio-temporal characterisation
Christian Hauck, Coline Mollaret, Christin Hilbich, Cecile Pellet, Eva De Mits, Theresa Maierhofer, Tomasz Gluzinski, Christophe Lambiel, Alex Bast, Jacopo Boaga, Adrian Flores Orozco, Hanne Hendricks, Christof Kneisel, Julius Kunz, Sarah Morard, Mirko Pavoni, Sebastian Pfaehler, Marcia Philips, Riccardo Scandroglio, Cristian Scapozza, (2025) | PreprintThe Rock Glacier Inventories and Kinematics (RGIK) Action Group: status and future directions
Sebastián Vivero and Cécile Pellet, (2022) | PreprintAnalysis of the 20-year long permafrost evolution at the long-term monitoring site Stockhorn, Swiss Alps, by applying a petrophysical joint inversion and a thermal model (Cryogrid3).
Sarah Morard, Christin Hilbich, Coline Mollaret, Cécile Pellet, Florian Wagner, Sebastian Westermann, Christian Hauck, (2022) | PreprintSupplementary material to "Mountain permafrost degradation documented through a network of permanent electrical resistivity tomography sites"
Christin Hilbich, Coline Mollaret, Cécile Pellet, Adrian Flores-Orozco, Reynald Delaloye, Christian Hauck, (2018) | Preprint