ODYSSEY FOR LIFE: SCIENTIFIC TEAM
Our team is based on the complementary skills of passionate and committed scientists!
Marine biologists, geneticists, acousticians, veterinarians... all united by the same mission: to protect these sea giants and the ecosystems they cross.
In our next video, we will tell you about our ethics committee... so stay tuned!
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Pr. Nabila GAERTNER-MAZOUNI
Pr. Nabila GAERTNER-MAZOUNI
Pr. Nabila GAERTNER-MAZOUNI
- Ecotoxicology analyzes -
Professor of marine ecology at the University of French Polynesia.
She has extensive experience in coordinating interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder research projects on the management of marine resources and on the transfer/pooling of knowledge.
We owe her in particular the establishment of a team specialized in the study of plastic and metal contamination.
Dr. Jean Claude GAERTNER
Pr. Nabila GAERTNER-MAZOUNI
Pr. Nabila GAERTNER-MAZOUNI
- Contamination data processing and multivariate analyses -
Researcher at the IRD in community ecology and quantitative ecology, Jean Claude works on the vulnerability of ecosystems to forcing.
He has led several works aimed at the development of biodiversity indicators as well as the monitoring and evaluation of pollution.
He directs the UMR-EIO and supervises work devoted to the contamination (metallic and microplastics) of organisms.
Dr. Patricia ARRANZ-ALONSO
Pr. Nabila GAERTNER-MAZOUNI
Dr. Patricia ARRANZ-ALONSO
- Acoustic analyses, Drone operator -
Researcher at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands-Spain), Patricia works on the impact of tourist observation of cetaceans and in particular, the effects of noise pollution on the behavior of pilot whales.
She has specialized in a new method which consists of taking breath samples from cetaceans by drone. It is also innovating for the installation of Argos tag by using the drone, a pioneering method most respectful of cetaceans, by positioning the boat far from the animals so as not to disturb them.
Dr. Laura MIRALLES
Dr. Laura MIRALLES
Dr. Patricia ARRANZ-ALONSO
- Genetic and biochemical analyses -
Researcher at the University of Oviedo in Spain in molecular biology and genetics of marine mammals.
Award-winning Laura has an exceptional research career marked by more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters.
Author of recent discoveries in genetics on Globicephala macrorhynchus, she has just developed a new method for studying the genetics of cetaceans, which Odyssey for Life is pleased to introduce you to in this fascinating scientific journey.
Dr. Agnes BENET
Dr. Laura MIRALLES
Dr. Agnes BENET
- Marine biology - Ethology - Project manager -
After working at CNRS and IFREMER in France, she taught ecology and marine biology, coral reefs and marine mammals at the University of Sciences of La Rochelle.
Passionate about cetaceans, she began studying bottlenose dolphins in Normandy before leaving for Polynesia.
Due to growing anthropogenic pressure on cetaceans, Agnès quickly focused her research on impact studies: Ethological impact studies on populations of different cetaceans.
Agnès is also at the origin of the Emergency Network for Marine Mammals on the 5 archipelagos in 2010, to intervene in the event of an emergency over an area of 5 million km2.