Pierre Regnier, Full Professor in the Department of Geosciences, Environment & Society, Biogeochemistry and Earth System Modelling, is this academic year “Hess Distinguished Visiting Professor” at Princeton University (NJ, USA).
Invited by the “Department of Geoscience and High Meadows Environmental Institute”, he will work closely with Professor Laure Respandy and her research group in physical and biogeochemical oceanography. The aim of the stay is to build on a nascent collaboration focused on a better understanding of the role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle.
The collaboration between our institution and Princeton University will mobilize methods combining “data science” and “Earth system modelling”. These methods will better resolve the spatial and temporal variability of CO2 exchanges at the air-sea interface, elucidate the physical and biogeochemical processes that regulate these exchanges, and reconstruct the long-term evolution of the carbon cycle from the pre-industrial period to the end of the 21st century.