The TIPMIP Team is very pleased to share that Delphine Tardif will join the team as a biosphere modeler for the TIPMIP-BIOSPHERE domain. Delphine holds a Master’s degree in Geology and started working as a geostatistician in Brazil before completing a PhD in Paleoclimate Modelling at the Physical Institute of the Globe in Paris (IPGP) in 2020. Her research combines Earth-system modelling (using IPSL Earth-system and ORCHIDEE vegetation models) and paleogeographic reconstructions to explore the links between climate, tectonics, and biodiversity over the past 50 million years. Her work demonstrated that key faunal dispersal corridors between Asia and Europe at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition were likely highly impacted by orbitally-driven climate variability. She also authored a comprehensive review of Asia’s paleogeographic evolution, integrating climate simulations, to assess how mountain building and land-sea distribution shaped Asian monsoon dynamics. More recently, she developed a methodology for producing continuous temperature reconstructions of the past 100 million years, which was applied to evaluate the impact of climate variability on speciation and extinction dynamics.
As a post-doc within the TIPMIP Biosphere domain, Delphine will facilitate collaboration across the international biosphere modelling community, finalize and implement the simulation protocol, and act as the primary link between participating teams in the biosphere domain and TIPMIP headquarters. Through the protocol implementation, she will likewise run simulations, paying particular attention to major tipping elements identified so far — notably the Amazonian rainforest and the boreal forest.
