Responsibilities in programs / projects (chronological order) :

1)            Development of MERIS algorithms: from 1995 to 2003, I had a leadership role in the development of atmospheric corrections algorithms for the ESA MERIS ocean colour satellite mission.  This was done in the frame of the “Expert Support Laboratories”, including my lab, the Plymouth Marine Lab (UK), the free Univ. of Berlin, the GKSS in Hamburg, the Joint Research Center in Ispra (Italy), the LISE in Wimereux (France), all being coordinated by ACRI-st.

2)            Coordination of two research proposals submitted to the EC: in 1997, « M6P » proposal concerning global primary production from MERIS observations (6 European partners). In October 2001: « ESOC » proposal concerning BOUSSOLE and other time series projects in Europe (7 partners). These projects were not selected.

3)            Collaboration with Univ. Miami: (decadal changes in global ocean colour). This work requested a permanent effort of coordination, insofar as we had each one on our side other projects and various responsibilities. The success of this project also led to a new project (GLOBPHY), funded by the French “Agence Nationale de la Recherche”.

4)            Proposal coordination for a future space mission, BIOGEOSAT: this proposal was made in 2002 to ESA (in response to the “Earth Explorer” ITT) with the support of CNES, with the objective of installing a constellation of ocean colour micro satellites, combined with an instrument in geostationary position. The consortium that I had set up included 7 research partners in Europe/ Canada, and 4 industry partners in Europe

5)            BOUSSOLE: I entirely set up the BOUSSOLE project, which resulted in the drafting of very many proposals (space agencies, national bodies, Europe 5th PCRDT…), by the need for coordinating a multitude of “day-to-day” actions in order to be able to maintain within reasonable times the development of the project.

6)            I was chairman of a working group elected by the IOCCG on “Ocean-Colour Data Binning Issues”. The final report was published in 2004 by IOCCG (N°4, http://www.ioccg.org ).

7)            I coordinate a “Research and technology” action funded by CNES, the goal of which being to develop a radiance camera for the measurement of the underwater radiance distribution.

8)            GlobCOLOUR Project: I bring my expertise in ocean colour remote sensing to the GlobCOLOUR project financed by the ESA (2006-2008).

Organisation of meetings / seminars

1)            Organisation of the 1st meeting of the GlobCOLOUR project, in Villefranche, December 2006 (50 participants). See at http://www.globcolour.info/workshops_forum_agenda.html

2)            Co-chairman of the upcoming 19th  “Ocean Optics” conference, October 2008.

3)            Member of the planning committee for the 18th  “Ocean Optics” conference, Oct. 2006, Montreal.

4)            Co-organiser with H Claustre of the session “Marine optics and biogeochemistry: from micro- to global scale (BG3)” at the 27th assembly EGS, Nice, 2002.

Responsibilities / implications in France              

1)            Responsible of the “optics and remote sensing” team at LOV (25 people)                                                                                                                                               2006 – 2008

2)            President of the CNES scientific committee (TOSCA)                         2001 - 2009

3)            Member of the scientific committee of the “Programme National de

      Télédétection Spatiale”                                                                                          2002 – 2007

International engagements and responsibilities

1)            Chairman IOCCG                                                                                          2010 - ongoing

2)            Member of the IOCCG                                                                                   2003 - 2009

3)            Chairman of IOCCG WG on GEO ocean color observations            2008 - ongoing

4)            Chairman of the IOCCG WG on ocean colour data  binning           2001 - 2004

5)            Member of the IOCCG working group on atmospheric corrections

of satellite ocean colour observations                                                                      2001 - 2009

6)            Member of the European Space Agency ESAC                                     2009 - ongoing

7)            Member of working group « Remote Sensing of Shelf Seas Ecosystems »,

                Marine Board of the ESF (European Science Foundation)                 2005 – 2006

8)            Participant to the « Primary Productivity Algorithm Round Robin » project

Organised by NASA.                                                                                                     1999 – ongoing

9)            Member of the SIMBIOS Project                                                  2000-2002

10)          Member of the MERIS Quality Working Group (ESA)                        2003 - ongoing

11)          Member of the EUROCEAN network of excellence                             2005 – 2008

Oceanographic cruises

Participation to PROPPAC 4 (ORSTOM, SW Pacific, November 1989; one month)

Participation to EUMELI 4 (LOV, NE Tropical Atlantic, June 1992; one month)

Chief scientist for the BOUSSOLE-AOPEX cruise (Mediterranean, August 2004; 20 days)

Chief scientist for most of the BOUSSOLE monthly cruises in 2001-2002, and more occasionally since 2003 (N/O « Tethys-II »)

Chief scientist for the deployment cruises for the BOUSSOLE mooring (12 cruises)