Martine Rebetez

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Martine Rebetez (* 1961 ) is a Swiss climate researcher . She is a professor at the University of Neuchâtel .

Life

Rebetez studied geography and climatology at the Universities of Lausanne, Zurich and Salford from 1979 to 1985. She received her doctorate from 1987 to 1992 at the University of Lausanne and was subsequently a. a. employed at the University of Freiburg and the University of Neuchâtel. She has been a researcher at the Federal Research Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape (WSL) since 2006 and as a professor at the University of Neuchâtel since 2017.

Rebetez devotes herself to skiing and volleyball in her free time.

Act

Rebetez 'scientific work deals with climate change, especially in Switzerland, as well as with the consequences of climate change for forests, alpine tourism and snow. She contributed to the understanding of the effects of global warming on winter tourism in the context of the climate crisis . In 2016, it was able to prove that the skiing and sledding season in the Alps in Switzerland was shortened by more than a month compared to 1970; accordingly there is more extreme weather, longer periods of drought and greater precipitation events.

In 2019 she commented benevolently on the concerns of the climate protection movement Fridays For Future : “According to Antoine de St-Exupéry , we do not inherit the land from our parents, but rather borrow it from our children. Today the new generation asks us to give an account of what we have done with the land we borrowed from them. "

Rebetez also looks at people's perceptions of climate change. Rebetez's investigation of the changed perception of white Christmas over time attracted media attention ; using a comparison of Christmas postcards, she was able to show that it was not until around 1860 that the ideal of a snowy Christmas party spread around the world.

She is the doctoral mother of the politician Valentine Python .

Publications (selection)

  • M. Rebetez: Public expectation as an element of human perception of climate change. In: Climatic Change. Volume 32, No. 4, 1996, pp. 495-509, doi: 10.1007 / BF00140358
  • M. Rebetez, H. Mayer, O. Dupont, D. Schindler, K. Gartner, JP Kropp, A. Menzel: Heat and drought 2003 in Europe: a climate synthesis. n: Annals of Forest Science. Volume 63, No. 6, 2006, pp. 569-577, doi: 10.1051 / forest: 2006043
  • M. Rebetez, O. Dupont, M. Giroud: An analysis of the July 2006 heatwave extent in Europe compared to the record year of 2003. In: Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Volume 95, No. 1-2, 2009, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1007 / s00704-007-0370-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Prof. Dr. Martine Rebetez - CV - Employees - WSL. In: wsl.ch. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Martine Rebetez - Employees - WSL. In: wsl.ch. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Damage to nature in the Alps: skiing is discontinued. In: taz. taz, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ #ScientistsForFuture: 12,000 scientists support climate movement. In: Watson. Watson, accessed December 20, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  5. ↑ Holiday weather: Myth of the white Christmas. In: Spiegel Online. Spiegel Online, accessed December 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rebetez, Martine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss climate researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1961