Judith Maréchal
judith_marechal [at] hotmail.fr
Professional experience
2019: Present: Danish Technical University, ARTEK Campus, Sisimiut, Greenland
PhD research on the Influence of water systems on human health in Greenlandic settlements.
2016: CNRS / Musée de l’Homme - Paris, France
Writing, translations and project editing: Compiling and editing the contributions of Indigenous experts to a publication on Local Indigenous Knowledge, Climate Change and knowledge coproduction, to be published in collaboration with UNESCO.
2014 - 2016: International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Communication Consultant – Kathmandu, Nepal
Research, science writing and project editing for The Himalayan Climate and Water Atlas, Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources in Five of Asia’s Major River Basins, launched at a UNEP side-‐event in Paris, at COP21. Communicating core findings from four years of research by the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP)
Event management: international workshops and conferences in Kathmandu and Dhulikhel, Nepal
2012 - 2014: GRID-‐Arendal, Polar and Cryosphere Division, Polar Research Assistant - Arendal, Norway
Hosting the Many Strong Voices Programme, for people of the Arctic and Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Research, science writing and project editing for the publication Time to Act - to reduce Short - Lived Climate Pollutants, with CCAC and UNEP - DTIE
Copyediting for the report The Last Straw, Food Security in the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the additional burden of climate change, with ICIMOD for HICAP
Post-‐production and editing of Snowy OWL Talks videos (with UArctic)
2011: Base Océans - Expedition “DeepSea Under the Pole” (Master’s degree internship)
Science writing for web-‐based outreach to the general public on the Arctic environment
Development of an international networking database for scientific partnerships
2009 - 2011: Sorosoro Programme for the Protection of Word Languages (Fondation Chirac) - Paris, France
Science writing and communication (English, French and Spanish)
Coordination and Event management
2007 - 2009: UNESCO, Programme of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors - Paris, France
Institutional communication and Event management
Education
2019 - Present
PhD research on the Influence of water systems on human health in Greenlandic settlements. (Danish Technical University, ARTEK Campus, Sisimiut, Greenland)
2016
Solid Waste Management (Certificate) (UNESCO - IHE Institute for Water Education)
2015
The Biology of Water and Health - Sustainable Interventions (verified Certificate) (Tufts University, Open Education Consortium - through edX)
Introduction to the Treatment of Urban Sewage (verified Certificate) (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft U. of Technology - through edX)
2010 - 2011
Master in Arctic Studies (Sustainable Development and Environmental Sciences) (UVSQ, France (Magna cum laude))
Last revision: May 2021