Lagrangian study of fine-scale physical-biological coupling

Andrea Doglioli - AMU/MIO

Andrea Doglioli is an Associate Professor. He got his PhD in Marine Science at the University of Genoa (Italy), then worked at the LPO-Laboratory of Physics of Oceans in Brest before joining the MIO - Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography in Marseille.

His research focuses on the study of ocean circulation and turbulence and their impact on the life of organisms. His research methods cover a broad spectrum ranging from numerical models to satellite data to in situ measurement.

He has participated in more than 10 oceanographic campaigns and he is a teacher of the Master of Marine Sciences of Aix-Marseille Université.

Gérald Gregori - CNRS/MIO

Gérald Grégori is a CNRS researcher. He got his PhD in Environmentl Sciences at the Université de la Méditerranée (Marseille, France).

Then he worked 2 years as Associate Researcher at Purdue University (Indiana) in the Paul Robinson’s laboratory where he developped his skills in flow cytometry. He is co-inventor of the first spectral flow cytometer (with a patent licensed to Sony and ThermoFisher).

He is interested in marine planktonic microbes (abundance and activity), and their relashionships with the ecosystem and the biogeochemistry. He studies the factors that influence their abundance and distribution along the water column. His originality is to use single cell analysis to study them, both in situ and in the laboratory.

Monique Messié
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

Monique Messié is a researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). She received her PhD from Université Toulouse III in 2007 and has been at MBARI since, first as a postdoc and now a senior research specialist. Her research combines satellite products, models and in situ data to study ecosystem processes and physical/biological interactions in the coastal and open oceans. She is currently looking at ecosystem response to climate and ocean change, bioluminescence in the upper ocean, biological hotspots in the California Current, connections between surface, midwater and benthic communities, and the effect of tropical islands on phytoplankton biomass and biodiversity.
 

Kyla Drushka
Applied Physics Laboratory - University of Washington

Kyla Drushka is a Principal Oceanographer and Affiliate Assistant Professor. She received her PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2011, completed a postdoc at LOCEAN  in 2012, and has worked at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington (Seattle, USA) since 2014; she is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Oceanography.

Dr Drushka's work focuses on understanding the response of the surface and upper ocean to atmospheric forcing on submesoscale to basin scales, and uses a combination of in situ and satellite observations as well as high-resolution numerical simulations.

She is a member of NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography Science Team and Ocean Salinity Science Team.

Anne Chenuil - CNRS/IMBE

Anne Chenuil is a CNRS researcher. She did her PhD in Paris, post-docs and teaching assistant in the USA (Miami) and Montpellier (France) after which she was hired by CNRS and moved to the Oceanology observatory of Banyuls-sur-mer. She is now at IMBE (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie) in Marseille.

She is an evolutionary biologist who used population genetics, phylogenetics, more recently also community ecology, to characterize various multicellular organisms (mostly invertebrates) in order to decipher the relative roles of migration, natural selection, genetic drift in shaping biodiversity patterns (with particular interest on reproductive and dispersal traits of species).