Jean Jouzel

Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel in 2010
Born (1947-03-05) 5 March 1947 (age 77)
Janzé, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
EducationÉcole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon
Known forStudy of Antarctic and Greenland ice
AwardsForeign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, member of the French Academy of Science
Scientific career
FieldsGlaciology and climatology
InstitutionsCEA, Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory (LSCE)
Thesis Complémentarité des mesures de deutérium et de tritium pour l'étude de la formation des grêlons  (1974)
Doctoral advisorÉtienne Roth

Jean Jouzel (born 5 March 1947) is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the Antarctic and Greenland ice.

Career

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Jean Jouzel's career occurred mostly at the CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique), the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice-president of LMCE, the CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate; in 1995 he became its research director. In 1998 he became director of climate research of the LSCE, which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory. From 2001 to 2008 he was director of the IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), a major federative laboratory on climate research in the Paris region, including CEA LMCE-LSCE.[1]

He has focussed his research on isotopic modelling, especially water isotopes for reconstruction of past climate from ice cores. After the 1970s, he combined his effort with the prominent French glaciologist Claude Lorius and he has contributed to the project of deep ice drilling in Antarctica, first in Vostok, then in EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica), which he led from 1995 to 2001, producing 800,000 years of climate history.[2]

Involvement in IPCC

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From 2002 to 2015 Jean Jouzel was vice-chair of the Scientific Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Political activism

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Jean Jouzel has supported socialist candidates, including Benoît Hamon for the French Republic presidential elections occurred in 2017[3] and Anne Hidalgo, for whom he was chair of the support committee for the Paris mayoral elections of 2020.[4]

Awards

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Jean Jouzel has received many scientific or public awards.[5]

Bibliography

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  • Jouzel, Jean; Claude Lorius; Dominique Raynaud (2012). The white planet : the evolution and future of our frozen world. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

References

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  1. ^ "UCL–French Embassy Conférence-Débat Series 2010/2011". University College London. 4 November 2010. Archived from the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  2. ^ "Jean Jouzel". CNRS. December 2002. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ Valéry, Laramée de Tannenberg (27 March 2017). "Pourquoi le climatologue Jean Jouzel soutient Hamon". Euractive. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  4. ^ "INFO EUROPE 1 – Climatologist Jean Jouzel to chair Anne Hidalgo support committee for municipal elections". 17 December 2019. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Jean Jouzel". KPMG. 2019-09-16. Archived from the original on 2019-12-19. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  6. ^ "EGU - Awards & medals - Milutin Milankovic Medal". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Susan Solomon wins Vetlesen Prize - MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences". eapsweb.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  8. ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, May 3, 2016, archived from the original on May 6, 2016, retrieved 2016-05-14.
  9. ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2023
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