Event

The Department of Earth & Environmental Science

University of Pennsylvania

Invites you to attend a EES Seminar Series

Friday, February 28, 2025 - 3:00 PM

"Fate of ocean oxygen in a changing climate"

The ocean is unambiguously losing oxygen in response to global warming. Yet, observations and climate models have so far shown large departures and uncertainties in the regional patterns of this ocean de-oxygenation, with implications for the future of ecosystems and the production of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas. This talk will present recent advances that shed light on the fate of ocean oxygenation and reconcile prior controversies. 

Dr. Laure Resplandy

Associate Professor

Department of Geosciences

Princeton University

Laure Resplandy is an Associate professor in the Geosciences department and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Resplandy studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and received a PhD in Oceanography from Sorbonne Universités in 2010. She arrived at Princeton in 2017 after working as a postdoctorate researcher at the UK National Oceanography Centre, the French Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Resplandy received several awards, including the Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and the NSF CAREER award. Resplandy is a biogeochemical oceanographer and climate scientist. Her group designs and develops cutting edge numerical models, from high-resolution ocean models to global Earth system models, and combines them with observations to understand how climate and ocean dynamics influence marine ecosystems and global carbon and oxygen cycles, and how these changes can in turn impact the Earth climate.