Irène Alvarez
FranceProgram Director at Chamonix Research Centre for Alpine Ecosystems (CREA)
Irène Alvarez is the programme director at Chamonix Research Centre for Alpine Ecosystems (CREA Mont-Blanc). This organisation, founded in 1996, offers her the commitment and freedom to act that she loves. She is also a mountain guide, promoting the scientific discovery of the mountains via participative science and observation. As a political science graduate from Georgetown University (USA), she previously worked in the field of wildlife conservation in Africa.
Brad Carlson
USAResearcher at the Chamonix Research Centre for Alpine Ecosystems (CREA)
Brad Carlson is a researcher at the Chamonix Research Centre for Alpine Ecosystems (CREA Mont-Blanc). He combines monitoring work in the field with remote detection to study vegetation dynamics in the Mont-Blanc mountains. Despite his American origins, Brad fell in the love with the Alps as a student, presenting his thesis at the laboratory of alpine ecology in Grenoble in 2016. He is an apprentice high mountain guide, deeply committed to sharing and discovering the mountain regions.