welcome Rafael!

CarbOcean welcomes a new team member: postdoctoral researcher Rafael Rasse, from Venezuela! 
Rafael is a chemical oceanographer holding a PhD degree in Chemistry - Earth Science from IVIC Venezuela and a Postgraduate certificate in Ocean Observatories from BIOS Bermuda. He was previously awarded the Newton International Postdoctoral Fellowship of the UK Royal Society and an H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at Sorbonne University to work on carbon fluxes and biogeochemical feedbacks in the ocean's oxygen minimum zones. To achieve this, Rafael has developed bio-optical algorithms and exploited observations from BioGeoChemical-Argo floats and satellite platforms.
In CarbOcean, Rafael will exploit the global fleet of BioGeoChemical-Argo floats and remote sensing to  study spatial-temporal variations in fluxes of particulate carbon in the main oceanic basins impacted by coccolithophore blooms.

Figure Right: Do Oceanic Hypoxic Regions Act as Barriers for Sinking Particles? A Case Study in the Eastern Tropical North Atlantic (Rasse and Dall’Olmo, 2019. GBC).
a) surface ocean physics and stocks of particulate organic carbon (POC). b) Mesopelagic POC stocks and c) net instantaneous fluxes of POC derived from a BGC-Argo float in the Tropical North Atlantic Ocean.