• Prime contractor, providing over all Project Management and Administration. Prime responsible and contact with ESA.
  • Lead 5 workpackages, participate to all project tasks
  • Development and validation of ocean surface currents and 3D ocean currents from the merging of SSS, SST, SSH, GOCE and in-situ data as well as to the production of experimental datasets and the impact assessment activities related to the production and validation of the micronekton density maps
   

  • Leader of the dataset collection and the promotion workpackages.
  • Participate to all technical workpackages
  • Retrieval of surface salinity products by exploiting the synergy between SMOS data, SST and in-situ data




CLS team


Marie-Hélène Rio is a senior scientist. She holds a space engineering degree plus a PhD in physical oceanography and has a 10 year long experience in altimetry on two main domains, first the analysis and validation of level-3-4 altimetric products through ocean analysis and comparison to in-situ measurements, and second the synergy between in-situ data, altimetric and gravimetric missions for the computation of the Mean Dynamic Topography for which she has a well recognized scientific expertise. She has been particularly involved in the preparation of the GOCE mission as member of the ESA GOCE Mission Advisory Group and by participating to numerous GOCE-related European projects (GOCINA, GOCINO, and GUT).

Stéphanie Guinehut is a senior scientist. She holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) in Earth Sciences and a PhD in physical oceanography from Toulouse University. She has a 10 year long experience in the field of satellite and in-situ data analysis and profiling float array design. She has participated to numerous EC, national and international projects (e.g. MFSTEP, GYROSCOPE, MERSEA, MyOcean, E-AIMS, Mercator Ocean, CLIVAR/GSOP/GODAE). She is the author of several publications on the analysis of in-situ data, the merging of altimeter with in-situ data and also array design experiment.

Sandrine Mulet holds an engineering degree and a master and PhD in physical oceanography. Her PhD thesis start in March 2009 at the same time GOCE mission was launched and she was involved in the several GOCE geoid models validation mainly in the framework of GUT project. She worked on analysis and combination of different data sources (altimetric, in-situ, geodetic) to compute ocean state estimate from the Mean/Absolute Dynamic Topography to the 3D geostrophic currents. She achieved her PhD thesis in 2013 and gets a permanent position at CLS going on working on these subjects.

Patrick Lehodey holds a PhD in Marine Biology and a HDR. He joined CLS in 2006 and leads the Marine Ecosystem Department. He is the main contributor to the development of a spatial numerical model (SEAPODYM), driven by physical and biogeochemical ocean models and integrating knowledge on tuna biology and ecology. Patrick Lehodey was a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of GLOBEC and co-chair of the GLOBEC/CLIOTOP (Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators) program until 2010. Check my publications on researchgate

Inna Senina completed (2001) a PhD degree in Mathematical Sciences at the Rostov State University (Russia). Her thesis topic was mathematical modeling, extinction risk assessment and prognosis of harvested fish population dynamics. She joined CLS in 2007 where she is contributing to the modeling of fish population spatial dynamics. In particular she is being responsible for the continuous development and parameterization of SEAPODYM using data in order to improve model predictions of the dynamics of prey and pelagic predators.

Jacques Stum holds a PhD in Land surface studies using satellite shortwave data. He is responsible of the Sea surface temperature and ocean colour activities in the CLS Space Oceanography Division. He has been involved for more than 10 years in the development and expertise in altimeter and radiometer data. Since 2002, J. Stum is in charge of the real-time global SST (AVHRR, TMI) and ocean colour (VEGETATION, MODIS, MERIS) processing.

Beatriz Calmettes holds a PhD in Signal and Image processing in 2000. Her research focused on evaluating and implementing algorithms for SAR RAW image compression in parallel architectures, a topic she continued to focus on during her postdoc at ONERA, the French Aerospace Research Office. Since July 2006, Beatriz is the software engineer in charge of data processing and operational production for the Marine Ecosystem Department from the CLS Space Oceanography Division.

Anna Conchon is a PhD student (University of La Rochelle) working in CLS on the modeling of micronekton and its applications under the supervision of Patrick Lehodey (CLS) and Christophe Guinet (CNRS).


CNR team


Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli is a senior scientist. He holds a Laurea degree in Physiscs and a Ph.D. in Marine Sciences and Engineering.His main research interests cover the joint analysis of satellite and in situ measurements through classical and innovative statistical and dynamical approaches, such as optimal interpolation, multivariate/autoregressive analyses (CPA, EOF, LIM, etc.) and numerical modelling (quasi/semi-geostrophic Omega equation solution, Lagrangian diagnostics, etc.). He is involved in the experimental activities related to the measurement of marine surface topography,  temperature and salinity from space, and to the application of these data for scientific studies and operational oceanography. Check my publications on researchgate

Rosalia Santoleri is a Research Director. 25 years of experience on marine circulation, remote sensing, satellite oceanography, air-sea interaction. Head of the Group of Ocean Sciences of the Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima (ISAC-GOS). PI in several national and international research projects on: satellite oceanography, physical oceanography, air-sea interaction, satellite calibration/validation activities.  Since 1999 she is involved in operational oceanography developing and providing NRT SST and ocean colour products for monitoring and forecasting of Mediterranean circulation and sea state.  In the framework of GMES Marine Core Service she is responsible of the Ocean Colour Thematic Assembly Centre that is providing ocean colour satellite products for the global ocean and for the European Seas. Check my publications on researchgate

Riccardo Droghei is a Research Assitant at ISAC-GOS. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and is an expert in applied mathematics, non-linear models and fluid dynamics. He is presently involved in the activities related to the development and validation of the multi-dimensional covariance model for the Optimal Interpolation of sea surface salinity. Check my publications on researchgate