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Clement Bertin

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4800 Oak Grove Drive, M/S 300-323

Pasadena, CA 91109

Curriculum Vitae:

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Member of:

Ocean Circulation And Air Sea Interaction

JPL Postdoctoral Fellow

Employed By

Caltech/JPL

Biography

I am a physical and biogeochemical oceanographer and modeler working on the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean – Darwin (ECCO-Darwin) model. I obtained a PhD from La Rochelle University, France in 2023 and moved to JPL to continue my work with the ECCO-Darwin team. I am interested in modeling the carbon cycle and the ecosystem of the coastal waters of the Arctic Ocean. I focus on the fate of territorial organic matter (from river export, erosion or glacier runoff) and estimate the impact on coastal air-sea CO2 fluxes. I further use data from high resolution mission as SWOT and PACE to estimate the effect of mesoscale dynamics on such processes. Finally, I also use ECCO-Darwin to explore the effect of decreasing Last Ice Area (LIA) on the Arctic Ocean food web.

Education

  • Ph.D., Earth and Fluid Envelopes, La Rochelle Université, France. (2023)
  • Dipl. Ing., Hydrography and Oceanography, École Nationale des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) Bretagne, France. (2019)
  • M.S., Ocean and Climate Physics, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), France. (2019)
  • M.S., Physical and Biogeochemical Oceanography, Aix-Marseille Université, France. (2017)
  • B.S., Physics, Université de Bordeaux, France. (2016)

Professional Experience

  • Postdoctoral fellow, La Rochelle Université, France. (2023)

Research Interests

Arctic Ocean; carbon cycle; land-ocean interface; colored dissolved organic matter; air-sea CO2 fluxes; modeling; mesoscale dynamics

Selected Awards

  • Arctic Frontier 2022 outstanding poster award (APECS)

Selected Publications

  1. Bertin, C., Carroll, D., Menemenlis, D., Dutkiewicz, S., Zhang, H., Matsuoka, A., Tank, S., Manizza, M., Babin, M., Miller, C.E., Mangin, A. & Le Fouest, V. (2023) Biogeochemical river runoff drives intense coastal Arctic Ocean outgassing. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2022GL102377
  2. Bertin, C., Matsuoka, A., Mangin, A., Babin, M. & Le Fouest, V. (2022) Merging satellite and in situ data to assess the flux of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon from the Mackenzie River to the coastal Beaufort Sea. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.694062
  3. Cusset, F., Bustamante, P., Carravieri, A., Bertin, C., Brasso, R., Corsi, I., Dunn, M., Emmerson, L., Guillou, G., Hart, T., ..., Cherel, Y. (2023). Circumpolar assessment of mercury contamination: the Adélie penguin as a bioindicator of Antarctic marine ecosystems. Ecotoxicology. doi: 10.1007/s10646-023-02709-9

Projects

ECCO