Jean Jouzel

Jean Jouzel, (born 5 March 1947) is a prominent French glaciologist and climatologist. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the Antarctic and Greenland ice. Outside the scientific community, he is famous for his activism, as a climate alarmist or as a socialist.

Jean Jouzel in 2010

Career

Jean Jouzel's career occurred mostly in CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique) which is the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice president of LMCE which is the CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate ; in 1995 he became its research director. In 1998 he became director of climate research of LSCE which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory. From 2001 to 2008 he was director of IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) which is a major federative laboratory on climate research in Paris region, including CEA LMCE-LSCE. [1]

He has focused his research on isotopic modelling, especially water isotopes for reconstruction of past climate, from ice cores. Since the 70s, he has joined his effort with the prominent French glaciologist Claude Lorius and he has contributed to the project of deep ice drilling in Antarctica, first in Vostok, then in EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) which he will lead from 1995 to 2001, producing 800 000 years of climate history.[2]

Involvement in IPCC

From 2002 to 2015 Jean Jouzel was vice-chair of the Scientific Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Political activism

Jean Jouzel has supported socialist candidates, including Benoit Hammon for the French Republic presidential elections occurred in 2017 (won by the former socialist Emmanuel Macron)[3] and Anne Hidalgo, whom for he has agreed to be chair of the support committee for the Paris mayoral elections of 2020.[4]

Awards

Jean Jouzel has received many scientific or public awards.[5]

In 1997 he received the Milutin Milankovic Medal.[6]

In 2002 he received with Claude Lorius the CNRS gold medal, the highest French scientific award.

In 2012 he received the Vetlesen Prize, shared with Susan Solomon.[7]

In 2015, he received the Leonardo da Vinci Award from European Academy of Sciences.

In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.[8]

In 2017 he was elected as a member of the French Academy of Science.

Bibliography
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  • Jouzel, Jean, Claude Lorius and Dominique Raynaud (2012). The white planet : the evolution and future of our frozen world. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

References
  1. "UCL–French Embassy Conférence-Débat Series 2010/2011". University College London. 4 November 2010. Archived from the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  2. "Jean Jouzel". CNRS. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. Valéry, Laramée de Tannenberg (27 March 2017). "Pourquoi le climatologue Jean Jouzel soutient Hamon". Euractive. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  4. "INFO EUROPE 1 – Climatologist Jean Jouzel to chair Anne Hidalgo support committee for municipal elections". 17 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  5. "Jean Jouzel". KPMG. 2019-09-16.
  6. "EGU - Awards & medals - Milutin Milankovic Medal". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  7. "Susan Solomon wins Vetlesen Prize - MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences". eapsweb.mit.edu.
  8. National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, May 3, 2016, archived from the original on May 6, 2016, retrieved 2016-05-14.
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