Odilon Joel Houndegnonto

Odilon J. Houndegnonto is a Physical Oceanographer in the Ocean Circulation and Air-Sea Interaction group at JPL. He is working on SASSIE project, a NASA’s experiment focused on understanding the dynamics and impacts of near-surface salinity anomalies and stratification generated by melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean (Beaufort and Chukchie seas). His research at JPL focuses on quantifying the 3D structure of near-surface stratification anomalies generated by melting sea ice (summer ice retreat), and understanding its precondition into the upper ocean for autumn ice advance. Before starting at JPL, he worked on validation part of the 4DAtlanti Ocean Heat Content project at Ifremer (CNRS/UBO-LOPS, Brest, France). He did his Ph.D. at Université de Bretagne Occidentale – UBO, Brest, France – on the analysis of thermohaline variations from intra-seasonal to seasonal scales of freshwater plumes in the Gulf of Guinea. He is used to in situ data processing, remote sensing data, and combined with numerical model simulation output data. He is happy by joining and working at JPL since Jan. 2023.