COLLABORATORS

Jean-Benoît is a researcher at the National Museum of Natural History. Since 2002, he works on the foraging ecology of marine mammals according to oceanographic conditions using bio-logging. He did 10 field seasons in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic and runs a research program on the foraging ecology of Weddell seals. As a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission and the SCAR Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals, he is involved in management and conservation of marine organisms in the Southern Ocean.

With her Master’s degree in Ecology, Sarah develops a global interest for the world. In 2012, she met Luc Jacquet and for 3 years, Sarah followed in image his two last long-length movies, "Once upon a Forest" and "Ice and Sky". She developed two educational programs about tropical forests and climate change, for Wild-Touch. In 2015, she made the sensitive making-of called "Of men and ice" of the movie "Ice and Sky". In 2016, she got involved in the Atka expedition and realized documentary. She is now preparing a documentary on the scientific project “Ice Memory”, a large intervention aiming at collecting ice samples of the biggest glaciers of the world before they disappear.

Luc is a French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the film March of the Penguins, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2005. He also directed The Fox And the Child. It was released in Britain and Ireland in slightly re-edited dubbed English-language version with narration by Kate Winslet, and was released in the United States on 29 February 2008. His 2015 film Ice and the Sky was selected to close the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

After a master's thesis on the management of energy reserves during prolonged fasting situations in wild animals and laboratory rodents at the Center for Ecology and Energetic Physiology in Strasbourg (CNRS), Thierry worked in an INSERM laboratory to study the regulation of the expression of genes by nutrients. He was recruited as a researcher in physiology at the CNRS in Strasbourg in 1998 where he studies the response of polar seabirds to environmental changes and anthropogenic activities.

Martin studies the connections between sea ice physics, marine biogeochemistry and climate, using models and observations. Over the last 10 years, he developed small and large-scale sea-ice bio-physical modelling and data analysis open source tools. Martin co-leads the sea ice working group of NEMO, the European ocean modelling system, notably used as a basis for IPCC reports. Martin has taken part in several field trips in the Arctic and the Antarctic sea ice zones.