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I’m an Oceanographer (Ph.D., HDR) specialized in ocean climate monitoring at the Scientific Direction of Mercator Ocean international in Toulouse, France and member of the European Academy of Science

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Research interest: Understanding the role of the ocean – and its interaction within – in the Earth’s climate system, its changes and underlying processes involved, and how they can be best observed (in situ, remote sensing), monitored (reanalyses and operational systems) and estimated (analyses approaches, ocean climate indicator development) in support of a sustainable future development and climate resilient pathways.


Current responsibilities

  • Member of the CNES Science Programmes Committee (since 2024)
  • Editor JGR Oceans (since 2023)
  • Chair of the GOOS Task Team for an ocean indicator framework (since 2022)
  • Member of the European Academy of Science (since 2020)
  • Director of Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report (since 2015)
  • Member of the Ocean Observations Physics and Climate Panel (OOPC) (since 2019)
  • Workpackage leader of the Climate Demonstrator in the European project ObsSea4Clim (since 2024).
  • Member of the Review Panel German Research Vessels (since 2019)

Awards and former responsibilities

  • 2023 Gérard Mégie Award from the French Academy of Sciences (Oct 2023)
  • Lead author of the IPCC (AR6) WG1 6th assessment report (Chapter 2).
  • Participation of IPCC scooping meeting for the AR6 synthesis report (Oct. 2019)
  • Lead author of the IPCC (AR6) special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate (Chapter 1)
  • Member of the science committee of the International Space Science Institute (2019-2023)
  • Co-chair of WCRP/CLIVAR research focus “CONCEPT-HEAT”  2014-2019, (http://www.clivar.org/research-foci/heat-budget)
  • Steering team member of the CLIVAR research focus “Decadal variability and predictability of ocean and climate variability”  2014-2019, (http://www.clivar.org/about/research-foci#two)
  • Workpackage leader and managment commite member (representative for France) COST ES1402 “ Evaluation of ocean synthesis” , 2014-2018, (http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/essem/Actions/ES1402)
  • 2018 IMAREST DENNY Medal award
  • Participation of IPCC scooping meeting (Dec 2016) for the Special report on oceans and cryosphere (AR6)
  • PI of ISSI international working group: “Consistency of Integrated Observing Systems monitoring the energy flows in the Earth System”(http://www.issibern.ch/workinggroups/monitorenergyflow/)
  • PI of project MISTRALS/ENVIMED MEDMaHb: “The Mediterranean Sea mass and heat budget: Understanding its forcing, uncertainties and time evolution.”

** Foto: Teresa Bellina