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Of all the activities that I have pursued, I am most fulfilled when educating the future generations about the importance of the ocean. I believe that making scientific knowledge accessible to the broader community, is both my responsibility and purpose as a scientist. Below is a summary of these experiences over the course of my career in recent years.
Of all the activities that I have pursued, I am most fulfilled when educating the future generations about the importance of the ocean. I believe that making scientific knowledge accessible to the broader community, is both my responsibility and purpose as a scientist. Below is a summary of these experiences over the course of my career in recent years.
Advancing in Marine Biotechnology
I recently organised a conference on Marine Biotechnology in France ranging from micro- to macro-algae and their potential for sustainable production of medical products as well as food and food security for students at SupBiotech.
At the crossroads of science and ecology, this sector embodies responsible innovations that benefit the planet. This biological wealth is an invaluable resource for marine biotechnology, a rapidly expanding sector that combines science, sustainability, and performance.
Research into Education and Pedagogical training
I also had the opportunity to explore the impact of ChatGPT on education in an article titled 'to chat or to cheat' co-written with colleagues published in Polytechnique Insight.
Research into modern pedagogical methods has also led me to pursue the Harvard Bok Higher Education Teaching Certificate.
Science communication onboard - Greenland
I took part in an oceanographic cruise of the Ecotip project. This project studied ecological tipping cascades in the Arctic Seas focusing on understanding and predicting changes in Arctic marine biodiversity and implications for vitally important marine ecosystem services.
During the cruise to the West Coast of Greenland I worked on marine fungi and I wrote a blog for the university of Vienna about our time aboard as well as the science that was done by a multidisciplinary team.
Working as a scientific consultant for the Paris Climate Academy
I worked as a scientific consultant for the TUMO Climat project, run by the Paris Climate Academy. My work mainly consisted of proofreading educational texts on climate change, particularly decarbonization, for young people aged 9 to 25. Working with the developer of the TUMO educational tools introduced me to the most creative methods of sharing knowledge, especially with young children.
Science communication with children
I set up a project with a primary school, in collaboration with the Adopt a float communications team at the Villefranche-sur-Mer laboratory. In order to spark and strengthen these young children's interest in profiling floats and the measurements they take, we asked them to give them names and thus take ownership of them. These floats, deployed during the MOBIDICK campaign, took measurements from the surface to a depth of 2 km. I interacted regularly with the students from the Marion Dufresne research vessel, then went to show them the results a few weeks after my return to shore.
Science communication onboard - Southern Ocean
During the Mobydick research cruise I was responsible for science communication and sharing everyday life onboard through an online channel. Part of my PhD work was published as scientific popularization on online blogs such as the Nature group journal.
My thesis project was partially funded by a grant from the BNP Paribas Foundation. A photographer and a science journalist were present on the SOCLIM oceanographic campaign to provide coverage. They accompanied the scientists and documented the lives of the researchers on the ship. I was one of the people they followed regularly for their documentaries that have been published in the journal Le Monde and are accessible online.
These exchanges (which continue to this day) gave me the opportunity to present my thesis work to a broad audience, but also to learn the specifics of large-scale scientific outreach.
Working as research assistant in a startup
During my time at The Ocean Cleanup I was part of an international team quantifying plastic debris sampled in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which led to the first quantification of this vast oceanic region. We collaborated with the communications department to provide a press release for this study. Results from this study were used in the Netflix documentary 'Seaspiracy'. Additionally, I worked on protocols of DNA Extraction from Microplastics that we published as a hands-on-protocol for lab use. This work was presented at the first Microplastic Conference in 2016.
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