Jean Jouzel
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Jean is a leading glaciologist and climatologist
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Jean’s main scientific involvement has been with the use of water stable isotopes (deuterium and oxygen 18) for reconstructing past climate changes from ice cores at various timescales, and with associated atmospheric modeling using both dynamically simple and General Circulation models. Jean has participated to major ice core international projects such as Vostok in Antarctica and GRIP and North GRIP in Greenland and is now involved in the European Program for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA). Jean is the author or co-author of more than 350 publications about 2/3 of which in international journals. Until the end of 2008, Jean was the director of Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), which is a federative research institute that gathers five laboratories in the Paris area with a strong involvement in Global Change studies
Biography:
Jean Jouzel, (born 1947) is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He is a world renowned specialist in major climatic shifts based on his analysis of Antarctic and Greenland ice. He received with Claude Lorius the CNRS gold medal, the highest French scientific award.
He has spent his research career in CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique), which is the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice president of LMCE which is a CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate; in 1995 research director; in 1998 director of climate research of LSCE which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory; from 2001 to 2008 director of IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) which is a major federative laboratory on climate research in Paris region, including CEA LSCE.
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