Catherine Jeandel

Jeandel grew up in northern Brittany wanting to be an ocean scientist, despite a lack of interest in mathematics.^[1] She was a student at the École normale supérieure de Sèvres from 1977 to 1982.^[2] Jeandel earned a B.S. and her Ph.D. at the University of Paris VII.^[3]

From 1982 until 1983, she was a research associate at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.^[2] She joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 1983. From 1988 until 1990, Jeandel was at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. She was promoted to research director at the CNRS in 2007.^[2]

In 2018, Jeandel was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for fundamental research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and for exploiting them as tracers in chemical and paleoceanography".^[4]

Jeandel is known for her research on trace elements found in seawater and on marine particles, include investigations into vanadium,^[5] chromium,^[6] and neodymium.^[7][8] She has examined trace elements at multiple locations in the global ocean, include time-series sites such as KERFIX, in the Southern Ocean,^[9] and the EUMELI sites in the Atlantic Ocean.^[10] A portion of her research examines the role of particles from land that transport trace elements into marine systems^[11][12] Jeandel served on the Scientific Steering Committee ^[13] of the GEOTRACES project, where she focused on the transport of trace elements into the global ocean.^[14][15]

• Jeandel, Catherine; Mosseri, Remy (2011). Le climat à découvert (in French). Paris: CNRS. p. 288. ISBN 978-2271071989.
• Roy-Barman, Matthieu; Jeandel, Catherine (2016). Marine geochemistry : ocean circulation, carbon cycle and climate change (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 384. ISBN 9780198787495.
• Jeandel, C. (June 1993). "Concentration and isotopic composition of Nd in the South Atlantic Ocean". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 117 (3–4): 581–591. Bibcode:1993E&PSL.117..581J. doi:10.1016/0012-821X(93)90104-H.
• Lacan, Francois; Jeandel, Catherine (April 2005). "Neodymium isotopes as a new tool for quantifying exchange fluxes at the continent–ocean interface". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 232 (3–4): 245–257. Bibcode:2005E&PSL.232..245L. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.004.
• Blain, Stéphane; Quéguiner, Bernard; Armand, Leanne; Belviso, Sauveur; Bombled, Bruno; Bopp, Laurent; Bowie, Andrew; Brunet, Christian; Brussaard, Corina; Carlotti, François; Christaki, Urania; Corbière, Antoine; Durand, Isabelle; Ebersbach, Frederike; Fuda, Jean-Luc; Garcia, Nicole; Gerringa, Loes; Griffiths, Brian; Guigue, Catherine; Guillerm, Christophe; Jacquet, Stéphanie; Jeandel, Catherine; Laan, Patrick; Lefèvre, Dominique; Lo Monaco, Claire; Malits, Andrea; Mosseri, Julie; Obernosterer, Ingrid; Park, Young-Hyang; Picheral, Marc; Pondaven, Philippe; Remenyi, Thomas; Sandroni, Valérie; Sarthou, Géraldine; Savoye, Nicolas; Scouarnec, Lionel; Souhaut, Marc; Thuiller, Doris; Timmermans, Klaas; Trull, Thomas; Uitz, Julia; van Beek, Pieter; Veldhuis, Marcel; Vincent, Dorothée; Viollier, Eric; Vong, Lilita; Wagener, Thibaut (April 2007). "Effect of natural iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean" (PDF). Nature. 446 (7139): 1070–1074. Bibcode:2007Natur.446.1070B. doi:10.1038/nature05700. PMID 17460670. S2CID 4423573.

• Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2018)^[4]
• CNRS bronze medal (1992)^[16]
• Knight of the French Legion of Honor (2008)^[17]
• Officer of the French National Order of Merit (Ordre national du Mérite) (2015)^[18]
• Georges Milot Prize and Medal from the French Academy of Sciences (2018)^[19]
• Fellow, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry (2018)^[20][21]