Fabien Locher is a research fellow at the CNRS (CRH-EHESS). He works on environmental history, the history of science and technology. In 2008, he published Le Savant et la Tempête. l’atmosphère et prévoir le temps au XIXe siècle (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008) and has just co-directed, with Grégory Quenet, the dossier “Histoire environnementale” of the Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine.