​Louis Terrats defends his PhD thesis entitled "Linking the particle carbon flux to the phytoplankton community: an approach based on BioGeoChemical Argo floats and ocean colour remote sensing." on 9 December at Sorbonne University in Villefranche-sur-Mer! 

​The defense is open to the public. 

PhD Promoter: Hervé Claustre (SU), PhD co-promoters: Griet Neukermans (UGent) and Antoine Mangin (ACRI ST). 

​Evaluators: Laurent Mémery (CNRS), Hubert Loisel (ULCO), Louis Legendre (SU), Frédéric Le Moigne (CNRS), Ivona Cetinic (NASA). 

The CarbOcean Team is participating to the Ocean Optics XXV conference 2-7 October in Quy Nhon (Vietnam) with three presentations:

1. Depolarization by randomly oriented irregular shaped amorphous particles, Georges Fournier, Qiming Sun, and Griet Neukermans. Oral presentation. 
2. Calibration Method for Large Dynamic Range Polarized Transmissometers. Qiming Sun, Georges Fournier, Griet Neukermans, Filip Beunis, Kristiaan Neyts, and Wayne Slade. Poster presentation. 
3. Influence of coccolithophore blooms on ocean carbon sequestration using ocean colour remote sensing and BioGeoChemical-Argo floats. Griet Neukermans, Nathan Briggs, Louis Terrats, and Hervé Claustre. Oral presenation. 

CarbOcean is linked to the Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network (JETZON), a UN Ocean Decade programme aimed at providing the scientific understanding necessary to inform a sustainable approach to the management and conservation of the Twilight Zone ecosystem.