Description
In the Black Sea and the global ocean alike, automated profilers monitor brisk and slow evolutions of the marine environment.
Have you ever heard of the Argo network of automated profilers? Well, they are drifting along, diving and popping up at the surface of the sea to transmit, by satellite, the precious data they collect steadily. Temperature, salinity, oxygen, acidity, chlorophyl and more indicators of the state of the marine environment are measured this way from the surface down to the abysses: all around the world, and in the Black Sea for 2 decades already. Why? This is something you certainly have heard about: the climate change and the health of our seas deserve a constant monitoring, since rapid or steady processes happen in the marine biotope.
Yann-Hervé De Roeck dirige l’Euro-Argo European Research Infrastructure Consortium. Cette structure coordonne la contribution de l’Europe au réseau de profileurs automatisés Argo, qui fournit une mesure synoptique des paramètres physiques et biogéochimiques essentiels dans l’océan mondial. Spécialiste en modélisation numérique à haute performance, il a appliqué cette compétence à divers domaines maritimes au cours de sa carrière à l’Ifremer (French national institute for ocean science and technology). Son expérience des infrastructures de recherche comprend également la création et la direction d’un institut de recherche public-privé consacré aux énergies marines renouvelables offshore.
Yann-Hervé De Roeck heads the Euro-Argo European Research Infrastructure Consortium, the structure coordinating Europe’s contribution to the Argo network of autonomous floats, which provides a synoptic measurement of essential physical and biogeochemical parameters in the global ocean. His background is high performance numerical modelling that he applied in various marine domains in his career at Ifremer (French national institute for ocean science and technology). His experience with research infrastructures also encompasses creating and directing a public-private research institute devoted to marine offshore renewable energies.
Violeta Slabakova, Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Science
