Dr. Stéphane Pesant

• HIGHLIGHTS
• PROJECTS
• WORK EXPERIENCE
• EDUCATION
• FIELDWORK & EXPEDITIONS
• PUBLICATIONS

Tara-Oceans in GEO Magazine (December 2011 issue)

Author: Jörn Auf Dem Kampe; Photos: © Christoph Gerigk/GEO

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Networks of Excellence:

• EuroMarine - Integration of European Marine Networks of Excellence
• EUR-OCEANS - Marine Ecosystems under Anthropogenic and Natural Forcings

Data Infrastructures:

• WDS - ICSU’s World Data System
• EMODNET-Biology - European Marine Observation and Data Network
• SeaDataNet - Pan-European Infrastructure for Ocean and Marine Data Management

Research Projects:

• Tara-Oceans - Plankton Ecology, Biodiversity and Bioinformatics
• EURO-BASIN - Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis and INtegration
• MicroB3 - Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology
• CoralFISH - Ecosystem based management of corals, fish and fisheries in the deep waters of Europe and beyond
• EPOCA - European Project on OCean Acidification
• BIOACID - Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification
• MEDSEA - Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate

• Project Coordination (2009-present) PANGAEA - Universität Bremen, Germany
  Coordinating scientific data integration in National, European and international research projects, data infrastructures and networks of excellence.
• Assistant to the scientific director of EUR-OCEANS (2004-2008) CNRS - Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, France
  Coordinating the flow of data from field scientists to data managers and then to modellers by establishing 1) guidelines and templates for data archival; 2) funding programmes for data rescue and transformation; 3) meeting of experts to address the consistency of plankton data; 4) training courses in manual and automated plankton identification; and 5) networks of relevant scientific equipment (e.g. HPLC, Flow Cytometer, Microscopy, ZooScan) to encourage a continuous flow of data.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow (2002-2004)The University of Western Australia
  Project 1. Leading the phytoplankton production and vertical flux components for a three-year research programme on the coast of Western Australia, under the lead of the Commonwealth Science & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Project Leader: Dr Tony Koslow
  Project 2.Leading a team for the study of the vertical flux and metabolic control of sinking in diatoms, as part of a research programme off Mawson station (Antarctic) to study the ecosystem of the krill under the lead of the Australian Antarctic Division; Project Leader : Dr Steve Nicol
  Project 3.Leading the phytoplankton production and vertical flux components, «Deputy Chief Scientist», and «Coordinator» for a research programme on the impact of mesoscale eddies on primary and secondary production in oligotrophic waters off the coast of Western Australia; Collaborators: Drs Anya Waite and Peter Thompson
• Assistant Coordinator– Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (2001) Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ottawa
  Review and archiving Fisheries and Oceans’ scientific publications; Director: Dr. Jake Rice
• Marine Environmental Quality (MEQ) Advisor (2000) Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ottawa
  Liaison between MEQ initiatives across Canada and the assistant deputy minister (Oceans)
• Coordinator (1989-1992) Centre Ecologique de Port-au-Saumon (CEPAS), Charlevoix
  CEPAS is one of UNESCO World Biosphere Reserves and a gateway to the Saguenay-St-Laurent Marine Park. I coordinated the natural sciences education programme for children and trained a team of educators.

• Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography (1999) Université Laval, Canada
  Pathways of phytoplankton carbon transfer through food webs and sedimentation in the Northeast Water Polynya (Arctic)
  Directors: Prof. Louis Legendre & Dr Michel Gosselin
• DAAD - German Academic Exchange Fellow (1997) Kiel University, Germany
  Bentho-pelagic coupling in the Northeast Water Polynya (Arctic);
  Collaborators: Dr. Will Ritzrau and Prof. Gerhard Graff
• Master in Science (1995) Université Laval, Canada
  The Thesis presents the co-existence and the succession of three primary production regimes in the Northeast Water Polynya, based on a size-fractionation approach.
  Directors: Prof. Louis Legendre & Dr Michel Gosselin
• Bachelor’s degree (1991) McGill University, Canada
  Biological Science Program; Independent studies on relationships between body size and reproductive strategy of plants and animals. Mentor: Dr. Robert H. Peters (deceased 1996)

• SV Tara (2011) Easter Island - Guayaquil - Galapagos
• SV Tara (2010) Abu Dhabi - Ohman -Mumbai - Malé
• SV Tara (2009) Tanger - Alger
• RV Southern Surveyor (2006) Western Australia
• Quarterly cruises (2002-2004) Western Australia
• RV Southern Surveyor (2003) Western Australia
• RV Southern Surveyor (2003) Western Australia
• RV Aurora Australis (2003) Southern Ocean (Antarctic)
• RV Pierre Radisson (1998) North Water Polynya (Arctic)
• RV Polarstern (1993) North East Water Polynya (Arctic)
• RV Fogo Isle (1992) Gulf of Saint-Lawrence

• Karsenti E, Acinas SG, Bork P, Bowler C, De Vargas C, et al. (2011) A Holistic Approach to Marine Ecosystems Biology. PLoS Biol 9(10): e1001177. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001177
• Pesant S, Hook L, Lowry R, Moncoiffé G, Nisumaa AM, Pfeil B. Safeguarding and sharing Ocean Acidification Data. In: Riebesell U., Fabry V. J., Hansson L. & Gattuso J.-P. (Eds.),
  (2010) Guide to best practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting, 260 p. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union
• Gorsky, G., M. D. Ohman, M. Picheral, S. Gasparini, L. Stemmann, J.-B. Romagnan, A. Cawood, S. Pesant, C. García-Comas, and F. Prejger (2010) Digital zooplankton image analysis using the ZooScan integrated system. J. Plank. Res. 32: 285-303.
• Koslow, J.A., Pesant, S., Feng, M., Pearce, A., Fearns, P., Moore, T., Matear, R., Waite, A.M. (2008) The effect of the Leeuwin current on phytoplankton biomass and production off Southwestern Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans VOL. 113, C07050, doi:10.1029/2007JC004102
• Hanson,C.E., Pesant,S., Waite,A.M., Pattiaratchi,C.B. (2007) Assessing the magnitude and significance of deep chlorophyll maxima of the coastal eastern Indian Ocean. Deep-Sea Research 54 (8-10): 884-901.
• Holl, C., Waite, A.M., Montoya, J., Pesant, S., Thompson, P. (2007) Unicellular Diazotrophy as a Source of Nitrogen to Leeuwin Current Coastal Eddies. Deep-Sea Research 54 (8-10): 1045-1054.
• Paterson, H.L., Pesant, S., P. Clode, P., Knott, B., Waite, A. (2007) Systematics of a rare radiolarian and of Coelodiceras spinosum Haecker (Sarcodina: Actinopoda: Phaeodaria: Coelodendridae). Deep-Sea Research 54 (8-10): 1055-1075.
• Thompson, P., Pesant, S., Waite, A.M. (2007) Contrasting the vertical differences in the phytoplankton biology of a warm core versus a cold core eddy in the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Deep-Sea Research 54 (8-10): 1003-1028.
• Waite, A.M., Pesant, S., Thompson, P., et al. (2007) The Leeuwin Current and its eddies: an Introductiory overview. Deep-Sea Research 54 (8-10): 789-796.
• Waite, A.M., Pesant, S., Griffin, D.A., Thompson, P., Holl, C.M. (2007) Oceanography, primary production and dissolved organic nitrogen uptake in two Leeuwin Current Eddies. Deep-Sea Research 54 (8-10): 981-1002.
• Waite, A.M., Muhling, B.A., Holl, C., Beckley, L., Montoya, J. , Strezelecki, J., Thompson, P., Pesant, S. (2007) Food web structure in two counter-rotating eddies based on d15N and d13C isotopic analyses. Deep-Sea Research 54 (8-10): 1055-1075.
• Pesant,S., Legendre,L., Gosselin,M., Bauerfeind,E., and Budéus,G. (2002) Wind triggered events of phytoplankton downward flux in the Northeast Water Polynya. Journal of Marine systems, 31 (4): 185-197.
• Pesant,S., Legendre,L., Gosselin,M., Bjørnsen,P.K., Fortier,L., H.-J., Michaud,J., Nielsen,T.G. (2000) Pathways of carbon cycling in surface waters: the fate of small-sized phytoplankton in the Northeast Water Polynya. Journal of Plankton Research, 22: 779-801.
• Robineau,B., Legendre,L., Michel,C., Budéus,G., Kattner,G., Schneider,W., and Pesant,S. (1999) Ultraphytoplankton abundances and chlorophyll a concentrations in ice-covered waters of northern seas. Journal of Plankton Research, 21: 735 755. doi: 10.1093/plankt/21.4.735
• Pesant,S., Legendre,L., Gosselin,M., Ashjian,C., Booth,B., Daly,K., Fortier,L., Hirche,H.-J., Michaud,J., Smith,R.E.H., Smith,S., and Smith,W.O.Jr. (1998) Pathways of carbon cycling in the euphotic zone : the fate of large-sized phytoplankton in the Northeast Water Polynya. Journal of Plankton Research, 20: 1267-1291.
• Smith,R.E.H., Gosselin,M., Kattner,G., Legendre,L., and Pesant,S. (1997) Biosynthesis of macromolecular and lipid classes by phytoplankton in the Northeast Water Polynya. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 147: 231-242.
• Pesant,S., Legendre,L., Gosselin,M., Smith,R.E.H., Kattner,G., and Ramseier,R.O. (1996) Size-differential regimes of phytoplankton production in the Northeast Water Polynya (77° - 81° N). Marine Ecology Progress Series 142 : 75-86.
• Vissman,V., Pesant,S., Dion,J., Shipley,B. and Peters,R.H. (1996) Joint effects of maternal and offspring sizes on clutsh mass and fecondity in plants and animals. Ecoscience, 3 : 173-182.