Fields of Scholarship
Climate changes
Coupling ocean atmosphere and ice
Changes in thermohaline circulation
Meridional heat transfer
Relations with atmospheric pCO2
Development of quantitative proxy for ocean hydrology and dynamic

Honours and Awards
1979 Bronze Medal CNRS
Prize Foundation Philip Morris 1992 in Climatology
Member Academia Europae since 1998
2003 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Most referenced in Earth Science (ISI web of Science)
2004 Hans Oeschger Medal European Geophysical Union
2004 Medal Albert 1 de Monaco/Price Foundation Manley-Bendall
2004 Senior member, Institut Universitaire de France
2007 Collective Peace Nobel Prize (as a member of the IPCC AR4 WG1)