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Research and teaching centre
environmental geosciences
Research and teaching centre
environmental geosciences
Beaufort Luc

Beaufort Luc

DR-Senior Researcher

CL-Climat

Contact details
Email. : beaufort@cerege.fr
Tel: +33 (0)4 13 94 91 75

After training in ecology and geology (mainly palaeontology) in Lyon, and a thesis on nannoplankton (coccolithophores) and orbital cycles in the Miocene (Lyon 1 and Woods-Hole Oceanographic Institution), I joined the CNRS in 1991 at the Laboratoire de Géologie du Quaternaire in Marseille.) I have kept my speciality: nannoplankton - coccolithophores - present and past ecology. I am interested in the influences of natural (e.g. orbital cycles) and anthropogenic (e.g. ocean acidification) changes on these unicellular, autotrophic and calcifying organisms. I am very interested in methodological developments: artificial intelligence to recognise coccoliths after deep learning (first publication in 1997 and used routinely since) - optical method to measure the calcite mass of coccoliths (first publication in 2005).

  • 2001 - Habilitation to supervise research (HDR) - University of Aix-Marseille III
  • 1991 - Doctoral thesis (specialisation in Palaeontology) - Claude Bernard University (Lyon I)

ANR ITCH - Evolution of coccolithophores in relation to orbital cycles (Paleogenetics-morphometry)

RAPPMED - Dynamics of present-day coccolithophores using artificial intelligence