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Marechal Jean-Christophe
Senior Hydrogeologist

Curriculum vitae



+33467157965


G-EAU

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1039 rue de Pinville
34000 Montpellier
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Selected Publications


From 2000 to date




Hysteresis of submarine karst springs reveals tipping points in flow reversal and saline intrusion phenomena


Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Bernard Ladouche, Claudine Lamotte, Benoit Dewandel, Vivien Hakoun, Pierre Perrochet

Communications Earth \& Environment, vol. 6, 2025 Aug, p. 697




Managed groundwater recharge at the farm scale in pre-Saharan Morocco


Y. Khardi, G. Lacombe, B. Dewandel, A. Taky, J.-C. Maréchal, A. Hammani, S. Bouarfa

Proceedings of IAHS, vol. 385, 2024, pp. 47--52




XLKarst, an Excel tool for time series analysis, spring recession curve analysis and classification of karst aquifers


Vincent Bailly-Comte, Bernard Ladouche, Jean-Baptiste Charlier, Vivien Hakoun, Jean-Christophe Maréchal

Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 31, 2023 Dec, pp. 2401--2415




Computing natural recharge using the water-table fluctuation method: where to site an observation well


Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Pierre Perrochet, Yvan Caballero

Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 31, 2023 Nov, pp. 1991--1995




Dataset on onshore groundwaters and offshore submarine spring of a Mediterranean karst aquifer during flow reversal and saltwater intrusion


Bernard Ladouche, Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Claudine Lamotte, Vincent Durand, Vincent Bailly-Comte, Vivien Hakoun

Data in Brief, vol. 50, 2023 Oct


Heat Tracing in a Fractured Aquifer with Injection of Hot and Cold Water


Richard Hoffmann, Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Adrien Selles, Alain Dassargues, Pascal Goderniaux

Groundwater, vol. 60, 2022, pp. 192-209




Role of Reef-Flat Plate on the Hydrogeology of an Atoll Island: Example of Rangiroa


Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Vivien Hakoun, Pauline Corbier

Water, vol. 14, 2022




The Multiscale TROPIcal Catchments critical zone observatory M-TROPICS dataset {I: The Nyong River Basin, Cameroon


Stephane Audry, Henriette Ateba Bessa, Jean-Pierre Bedimo Bedimo, Jean-Loup Boeglin, Laurie Boithias, Jean-Jacques Braun, Bernard Dupre, Mikael Faucheux, Christelle Lagane, Jean-Christophe Marechal, Jules Remy Ndam-Ngoupayou, Bernadette Nka Nnomo, Justin Nlozoa, Jean-Claude Ntonga, Olivier Ribolzi, Jean Riotte, Emma Rochelle-Newall, Laurent Ruiz

Hydrological Processes, vol. 35, 2021


The Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS critical zone observatory M-TROPICS datas et III: Hydro-geochemical monitoring of the Mule Hole catchment, south India


Jean Riotte, Laurent Ruiz, Stephane Audry, Jean-Pierre Bedimo Bedimo, Jean-Jacques Braun, Bernard Dupre, Christelle Lagane, Jean-Christophe Marechal, Hemanth Moger, Mandalagiri Subbarayappa Mohan Kumar, Murari Varma, Muddu Sekhar

Hydrological Processes, vol. 35, 2021


Mapping Economic Feasibility of Managed Aquifer Recharge


Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Madjid Bouzit, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Fanny Moiroux, Jean-François Desprats, Yvan Caballero

Water, vol. 12, 2020




A drop does not fall in a straight line: a rationale for the width of stalagmites


Justine Parmentier, S. Lejeune, Maxime Maréchal, François Bourges, Dominique Genty, V. Terrapon, Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Tristan Gilet

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 475, 2019 Nov, p. 20190556




An Observatory of Groundwater in Crystalline Rock Aquifers Exposed to a changing Environment : Hyderabad, India


Jean-Christophe Marechal, Adrien Selles, Benoit Dewandel, Alexandre Boisson, Jerome Perrin, Shakeel Ahmed

Vadose Zone Journal, vol. 17, 2018 Nov


Identifying the impact of climate and anthropic pressures on karst aquifers using wavelet analysis


Jean-Baptiste Baptiste Charlier, Bernard Ladouche, Jean-Christophe Christophe Maréchal

Journal of Hydrology, vol. 523, 2015 Apr, pp. 610--623




Diagnostic Plots Applied to Well-Tests in Karst Systems


Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Bernard Ladouche, Benoît Dewandel, Perrine Fleury, Nathalie Dörfliger

Jacques Mudry, François Zwahlen, Catherine Bertrand, James W. LaMoreaux, {H2Karst} {Research} in {Limestone} {Hydrogeology}, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014, pp. 127--137


Analytical Solution for Modeling Discharge into a Tunnel Drilled in a Heterogeneous Unconfined Aquifer


Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Sandra Lanini, Bertrand Aunay, Pierre Perrochet

Groundwater, vol. 52, 2014, pp. 597-605


Representation of water abstraction from a karst conduit with numerical discrete-continuum models


Thomas Reimann, Markus Giese, Tobias Geyer, R. Liedl, Jean-Christophe Marechal, W. B. Shoemaker

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 18, 2014, pp. 227--241


Semi-distributed lumped model of a karst system under active management


Ladouche Bernard, Marechal Jean-Christophe, Dorfliger Nathalie

Journal of Hydrology, vol. 509, 2014 Feb, pp. 215-230


Karst flash-flood forecasting in the city of Nimes (southern France)


Perrine Fleury, Jean-Christophe Marechal, Bernard Ladouche

Engineering Geology, vol. 164, 2013 Sep, pp. 26--35




The Mont-Blanc road tunnel: example of groundwater observatory in the Alps


Jean-Christophe Marechal

La Houille Blanche, 2012 Jan, pp. 44--50




Estimating aquifer thickness using multiple pumping tests


Jean-Christophe Marechal, Jean-Michel Vouillamoz, M S Mohan Kumar, Benoit Dewandel

Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 18, 2010, pp. 1787--1796


Editor's message: the sunk cost fallacy of deep drilling


Jean-Christophe Marechal

Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 18, 2010 Mar, pp. 287--289


Water balance modelling in a tropical watershed under deciduous forest (Mule Hole, India): Regolith matric storage buffers the groundwater recharge process


Laurent Ruiz, Murari R.R. Varma, M. S.Mohan Kumar, M. Sekhar, Jean Christophe Maréchal, Marc Descloitres, Jean Riotte, Sat Kumar, C. Kumar, Jean Jacques Braun

Journal of Hydrology, vol. 380, 2010 Jan, pp. 460--472


Hydrogeological analysis of groundwater contribution to the 6-8 September 2005 flash flood in Nimes


Jean-Christophe Marechal, Bernard Ladouche, Nathalie Doerfliger

HOUILLE BLANCHE-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE L EAU, 2009, pp. 88--93


Indirect and direct recharges in a tropical forested watershed: Mule Hole, India


Jean-Christophe Marechal, Murari R R Varma, Jean Riotte, Jean-Michel Vouillamoz, M S Mohan Kumar, Laurent Ruiz, M Sekhar, Jean-Jacques Braun

JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, vol. 364, 2009 Jan, pp. 272--284




Interpretation of pumping tests in a mixed flow karst system


J C Marechal, B Ladouche, N Dorfliger, P Lachassagne

Water Resources Research, vol. 44, 2008


Karst flash flooding in a Mediterranean karst, the example of Fontaine de Nimes


Jean-Christophe Marechal, Bernard Ladouche, Nathalie Dorfliger

Engineering Geology, vol. 99, 2008, pp. 138--146


A generalized 3D geological and hydrogeological conceptual model of granite aquifers controlled by single or multiphase weathering


Benoit Dewandel, Patrick Lachassagne, Robert Wyns, Jean-Christophe Maréchal, N.S. S. Krishnamurthy

Journal of Hydrology, vol. 330, 2006 Oct, pp. 260--284




Combined estimation of specific yield and natural recharge in a semi-arid groundwater basin with irrigated agriculture


J C Marechal, B Dewandel, S Ahmed, L Galeazzi, F K Zaidi

Journal of Hydrology, vol. 329, 2006 Sep, pp. 281--293




Vertical anisotropy of hydraulic conductivity in the fissured layer of hard-rock aquifers due to the geological patterns of weathering profiles


J C Marechal, R Wyns, P Lachassagne, K Subrahmanyam

Journal of the Geological Society of India, vol. 63, 2004, pp. 545--550




Vertical anisotropy of hydraulic conductivity in fissured layer of hard-rock aquifers due to the geological structure of weathering profiles


J C Marechal, R Wyns, P Lachassagne, K Subrahmanyam, F Touchard

Comptes Rendus Geoscience, vol. 335, 2003, pp. 451--460




Theoretical relation between water flow rate in a vertical fracture and rock temperature in the surrounding massif


J C Marechal, P Perrochet

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 194, 2001, pp. 213--219




The Mont-Blanc Massif : Identification of a water-bearning important structure


Jean-Christophe Marechal

La Houille Blanche, 2000




Long-term simulations of thermal and hydraulic characteristics in a mountain massif: The Mont Blanc case study, French and Italian Alps


Jean-Christophe Marechal, Pierre Perrochet, Laurent Tacher

Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 7, 1999, pp. 341--354


English




Climate-change-induced seismicity: The recent onset of seasonal microseismicity at the Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc Massif, France/Italy


Verena Simon, Toni Kraft, Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Agnès Helmstetter, Tobias Diehl

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 666, 2025 Sep, p. 119372


French




Suivi hydrologique de la source sous-marine de la Vise : questions techniques et scientifiques


Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Bernard Ladouche, Vincent Durand, Claudine Lamotte, Pierre Perrochet

La Houille Blanche , vol. 112, Taylor \& Francis, 2026, p. 2664592

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