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List of past talks

14. October 2021

Speaker: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (1); Co-Speaker: Dr. Xavier Capet (1) - Moderator: Dr. Elisa Lovecchio (2)
"Competition between baroclinic instability and Ekman transport under varying buoyancy forcings

in upwelling systems: An idealized analog to the Southern Ocean." 

(1) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France; (2) National Oceanography Centre of Southampton (NOCS), UK

12. August 2021

Speaker: Ms. Saumya Silori (1) - Moderator: Dr. Suresh Iyyappan (1)
"Interannual biogeochemical variability induced by upwelling along the southwestern shelf of India" 

(1) CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India

08. July 2021

Speaker: Dr. Odette Vergara (1) - Moderator: Dr. Vera Oerder (2,3)
"Interannual variability of freshwater dischargue and its influence on circulation patterns in

central-southern Chile: Local intensification of currents" 

(1) Universidad de Concepción, Departamento de Oceanografía, LOFC (Laboratorio de Oceanografía Física Costera, PREGA (Programa de Monitoreo del Golfo de Arauco) and INCAR (Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research); (2) Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaiso, Chile; (3) Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO), Concepcion, Chile

17. June 2021

Speaker: Dr. Smitha B. R (1) - Moderator: Dr. Suresh Iyyappan (2)
"Patterns and processes in the South Eastern Arabian Sea upwelling system" 

(1) Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Kochi, India; (2) CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India   

13. May 2021

Speaker: Dr. M. Victor Aguilera Ramos (1,2) - Moderator: Dr. Elisa Lovecchio (3)
"Intraseasonal Hydrographic Variations and Nearshore Carbonates System Off Northern Chile

During the 2015 El Niño Event" 

(1) Ocean Researcher of the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA); (2) Deputy researcher Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía (IMO-Chile); (3) National Oceanography Centre of Southampton (NOCS), UK

11. March 2021

Speaker: Pierre Chabert (1) - Moderator: Dr. Elisa Lovecchio (2)
"Cross-shore flow and implications for Carbon Export in the California Current Ecosystem:

A Lagrangian analysis" 

(1) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France; (2) National Oceanography Centre of Southampton (NOCS), UK

18. February 2021

Speaker: Dr. Alice Pietri (1) - Moderator: Eike Koehn (2)
"Characterization and evolution of Marine Heat Waves in the Peruvian Upwelling System" 

(1) FONDECYT-IMARPE, Lima, Peru; (2) ETH Zurich  

07. January 2021

Speaker: Dr. G. V. M. Gupta (1) - Moderator: Dr. Suresh Iyyappan (2)
"Positive and negative feedbacks of Upwelling along the western Indian shelf" 

(1) Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Kochi, India; (2) CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India   

10. December 2020

Speaker: Dr. Andrea Corredor-Acosta (1,2) - Moderator: Dr. Elisa Lovecchio (3) 
"Influence of Diapycnal Nutrient Fluxes on Phytoplankton Size Distribution in an Area of

Intense Mesoscale and Submesoscale Activity" 

(1) Centro FONDAP de Investigación en Dinámica de Ecosistemas Marinos de Altas Latitudes (IDEAL); (2) Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía (IMO);

(3) National Oceanography Centre of Southampton (NOCS), UK

19. November 2020

Speaker: Dr. Karnan Chinnadurai (1) - Moderator: Dr. Suresh Iyyappan (1) 
"Role of coastal upwelling and mud banks in structuring the plankton size and food web

along the southwest coast of India" 

(1)  CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India   

15. October 2020

Speaker: Dr. Vincent Echevin (1) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (1) 
"Physical and biogeochemical impacts of RCP8.5 scenario in the Peru upwelling system" 

(1) Sorbonne Université, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France   

03. September 2020

Speaker: Dr. Haimanti Biswas (1) - Moderator: Dr. Suresh Iyyappan (1) 

"Contrasting biogeochemical provinces along the western Indian shelf waters during the SW monsoon" 

(1) CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India    

30. July 2020

Speaker: Derara Hailemariam Hailegeorgis (1) - Moderator: Eike Koehn (2)
"A 3D Lagrangian modeling study of nitrogen offshore transport from the Canary Upwelling System" 

(1) Center for Prototype Climate Modeling, New York University Abu Dhabi; (2) ETH Zurich   

18. June 2020

Speaker: Dr Oscar E. Romero (1,2) - Moderator: Dr Soeren Thomsen (3) 
"Long-term changes of particle fluxes in the highly productive Mauritanian upwelling:

Results from multiyear sediment trap experiments" 

(1) MARUM, Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences; (2) University of Bremen, Germany; (3) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France    

28. May 2020

Speaker: Dr Mercedes Pozo Buil (1,2) - Moderator: Eike Koehn (3)
"Dynamical downscaled ensemble projections for the California Current System" 

(1) University of California Santa Cruz (U.S.A.);  (2) NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.A.); (3) ETH Zurich   

23. April 2020

Speaker: Dr Parvathi Vallivattathillam (1) - Moderator: Dr Soeren Thomsen (2)
"Positive Indian Ocean dipole events prevent anoxia off the west coast of India" 

(1) Center for Prototype Climate Modeling, New York University Abu Dhabi; (2) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France  

12. March 2020

Speaker: Caitlin Amos (1) - Moderator: Eike Koehn (2)
"Offshore transport of coastal upwelled water in the California Current System by mesoscale eddies" 

(1) Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Marine Sciences; (2) ETH Zurich, Switzerland   

13. February 2020

Speaker: Dr Jorge Lopez-Parages (1,2) - Moderator: Dr Elisa Lovecchio (3)
"El Niño as a predictor of round sardinella distribution along the northwest African coast" 

(1) CERFACS/CNRS, Climate Modelling;  (2) Global Change Team, Toulouse, France; (3) National Oceanography Centre of Southampton (NOCS), U.K.   

23. January 2020

Speaker: Dr Adama Sylla (1,2) - Moderator: Dr Soeren Thomsen (2)
"Weakening of the Senegalo–Mauritanian upwelling system under climate change" 

(1) Laboratoire de Physique de l’Atmosphere et de l’Ocean Simeon Fongang (LPAO-SF/ESP/UCAD), Dakar, Senegal

(2) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France   

12. December 2019

Speaker: Dr. Fei Chai (1,2) - Moderator: Eike Koehn (3)
"Future changes of nutrient dynamics and biological productivity in California Current System" 

(1) School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, USA;  (2) Second Institute of Oceanography, China; (3) ETH Zurich   

21. November 2019

Speaker: Dr. Monique Messié (1) - Moderator: Eike Koehn (2)
"Ecosystem response to upwelling from surface to seafloor in the California Current system" 

(1) Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA(2) ETH Zurich   

31. October 2019

Speaker: Dr. Damodar Shenoy (1) - Moderator: Dr. Suresh Iyyappan (1) 
"Seasonal hypoxia along the west coast of India and biogeochemical cycling"

(1) CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India   

10. October 2019

Speaker: Clarissa Karthäuser (1) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (2) 
"How marine snow affects nitrogen cycling in oxygen minimum zones"

(1) Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany; (2) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France  

19. September 2019

Speaker: Dr. Giulia Bonino (1) - Moderator: Dr. Elisa Lovecchio (2)  
"Interannual to decadal variability within and across the major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems"

(1) Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Bologna, Italy; (2) Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K.   

11. July 2019

Speaker: Dr. Michael Jacox (1,2) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (3)
"Prediction and predictability in the California Current System"

(1) NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Monterey, CA, USA; (2) NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA; 

(3) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France   

20. June 2019

Speaker: Dr. Natalya D Gallo (1,2) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (3)
"From Monitoring to Climate Action in EBUS: Lessons from CalCOFI"

(1) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; (2) NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center; (3) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France    

06. June 2019

Speaker: Dr. Joke F. Lübbecke (1,2) - Moderator: Eike Koehn (3)
"Causes and evolution of the southeastern tropical Atlantic warm event in early 2016"

(1) GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany; (2) Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; (3) ETH Zurich    

23. May 2019

Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Gruber (1) - Moderator: Dr. Elisa Lovecchio (2)
"Warming up, turning sour, losing breath: Quo vadis, EBUS?"  

(1) ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; (2) Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K.  

16. May 2019

Speaker: Dr. Serena Illig (1,2) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (3)
"Propagation of Subseasonal Equatorially-Forced Coastal Trapped Waves down to the

Benguela Upwelling System"

(1)  LEGOS, CNRS/IRD/UPS/CNES, Toulouse, France; (2) MARE Institute, LMI ICEMASA, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa; 

(3) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France 

25. April 2019

Speaker: Dr. Adolfo Chamorro (1) - Moderator: Dr. Vera Oerder (2,3)
"Mechanisms of the intensification of the upwelling-favorable winds during El Niño 1997–1998
in the Peruvian upwelling system"  

(1) Instituto del Mar de Perú (IMARPE); (2) Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaiso, Chile;

(3) Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO), Concepcion, Chile 

28. March 2019

Speaker: Dr. Pierre-Amaël Auger (1,2) - Moderator: Dr. Vera Oerder (3,4)
"What drives the offshore extension of coastal productivity in the eastern south pacific?"

(1) Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía (IMO) y Escuela de Ciencias del Mar (PUCV), Valparaíso, Chile; (2) Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), Brest, France;

​(3) Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaiso, Chile; (4) Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO), Concepcion, Chile   

14. March 2019

Speaker: Riley X. Brady (1) - Moderator: Dr. Elisa Lovecchio (2)
"On the role of climate modes in modulating the air–sea CO2 fluxes in eastern boundary
upwelling systems"  

(1) Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; (2) University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

28. February 2019

Speaker: Dr. Carolin Loescher (1) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (2)
"Does the Ocean lose its breath?"  

(1) Nordic Center of Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark, DK; ​(2) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France

14. February 2019

Speaker: Dr. Eric Machu (1,2) Co-Speaker: Dr. Xavier Capet (3) - Moderator: Eike Koehn (4)
"First Evidence of Anoxia and Nitrogen Loss in the Southern Canary Upwelling System"  

(1) Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LOPS, IUEM, Brest, France; (2) LPAOSF, UCAD, ESP, Dakar, Senegal;

(3) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN Paris, France; (4) ETH Zurich

31. January 2019

Speaker: Dr. Vera Oerder (1,2) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (3)
"Impact of the mesoscale air-sea interaction on the Peru-Chile ocean dynamics"  

(1) Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Valparaiso, Chile; (2) Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO), Concepcion, Chile; ​

(3) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France            

24. January 2019

Speaker: Dr. Florian Schütte (1) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (2)
"Characteristics and impact of mesoscale eddies in the eastern tropical North Atlantic"  

(1) GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany; ​(2) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France

15. November 2018​

Speaker: Dr. Elisa Lovecchio (1) - Moderator: Dr. Soeren Thomsen (2)
"The 3D biological pump in EBUS regions: long-range offshore transport of organic 

carbon from the northwestern African coast to the open Atlantic" 

(1) ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ​(2) LOCEAN Laboratory, CNRS-IRD-Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, Paris, France            

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