Acoufreeze meeting in Innsbruck, December 2013

 

Mel visiting Pierre in Montmorin. December 2013

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Another Synchrotron run at PSI-SLS in Sept 2013 with  Steven, Brendan, Régis,  Eric and Vivian demonstrating that:

Hydraulic failure and repair are definitively not routine in trees !

Never cut xylem segments under tension if you are to measure PLC!!

 

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Régis, how many times we told you not to press that RED button ?

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‘Xylem Group’ meeting, September 2013, Besse, France

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2013: My first opinion paper

Beware of ‘miraculous’ xylem refilling!

 

Workshop on plant hydraulics, Château Valmont, in Bordeaux in 2013

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Meeting in Naples in 2013 with Frederic Sylvain Eric

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2012 : Our first Nature paper !

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The great Synchrotron team in PSI-SLS in 2012 (me, Régis, Sylvain, Eric)

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Another Synchrotron experiment at ESRF in 2012 with Sylvain and Eric

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First Synchrotron experiment at PST-SLS in 2011

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Aude testing our new Cavitron in 2010

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Research Network for Vegetation Function: Xylem functional traits

Sexhy group meeting in Sydney (October 2009)

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Meeting in Kipple (Suisse) in 2012

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Visit to Morocco in 2011 with Stephane, Abdella and me

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Swimming in the Dead See with Laurent in 2008

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2004: Measuring the effect of light on leaf conductance

 

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Hiking in the Puy-de-Dome with Pierre in 2004

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Cavitron #1 in 2004

(for some strange reasons they no longer let us play with it…)

 

 

 

2001: What the hell is that? Collapsed tracheids in water-stressed pine needles?

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2000: First prototype of the Xyl’em system

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1999: First Cryo-SEM picture.

No way, these bubbles must be a freezing artifact!

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First Cavitron prototype in 1998 in Clermont-Fd

 

First Pressure collar made at INRA-Clermont Ferrand in 1992

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Skiing with André in the Alps in 1992

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Sampling bamboos on BCI in 1992 while working with Franck and Mel

Cutting a tree under water with Mel, Pierre and Christian in 1991

Thinking about the pressure collar experiment with Mel and Pierre in 1991

Working with John (and Mel) in 1989 in Vermont

 

Tasting my first Bordeaux in 1969