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Pierre TESTOR
Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Climatologie :
Expérimentation et Approche Numérique
IPSL, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, case 100
4, place Jussieu
75252 Paris cedex 05 / France

born on  February  3, 1975
Nationality: France, E.U.
Email: testor@lodyc.jussieu.fr
Phone: +33 1 4427 7275
Fax: +33 1 4427 3805

Physical Oceanographer

               Employment


2006-now


Researcher (CR CNRS) at Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Climatologie : Expérimentation et Approche Numérique (LOCEAN ex-LODYC). Team: Dynamic Processes, Atmosphere-Ocean.



2003-2005


Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany). Division: Ocean Circulation and Climate (FB1). Research Unit: Physical Oceanography II - Processes and Observing Systems (PO II). Sup. Prof Uwe Send.




               Education


2002


Physical Oceanography PhD at  the Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LODYC - CNRS/IRD/Paris VI, IPSL, France). Sup. Jean-Claude Gascard, Lagrangian study of meso and submesoscale eddies in the Western Mediterranean Sea: phenomenology and interaction with the general circulation.



1999


graduated from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI, EDSE)
DEA Océanologie, Météorologie et Environnement



1998


graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA)
Engineering school, specialization: Naval  Architecture and Marine Environment




               Oceanographic Cruises


July 2006

MERSEA-gliders, R/V IMEDEA (IMEDEA/CSIC-Spain), Western Mediterranean, 1 week.

May 2006

BIOPRHOFY gliders, R/V Thetys II (INSU), Western Mediterranean, 1 week.

Apr 2006

MERSEA-gliders, R/V IMEDEA (IMEDEA/CSIC-Spain), Western Mediterranean, 1 week.

Mar 2006

ESCAROT3/MERSEA-gliders, R/V Pourquoi Pas ? (Ifremer-France), North Atlantic, 1 week.

Dec 2005

CONGAS/MERSEA-Gliders, Argonaute (SHOM-France), North Atlantic, 1 week.

Sep 2005

MFSTEP-Gliders, R/V IMEDEA (IMEDEA/CSIC-Spain), Balearic Sea, 1 week.

Feb 2005

MFSTEP-Gliders, R/V Luigi Sanzo (CNR-Italy), Ionian Sea, 1 week.

Feb 2005

MFSTEP-Gliders, R/V Luigi Sanzo (CNR-Italy), Ionian Sea, 2 weeks.

Dec 2004

MFSTEP-Gliders, R/V Luigi Sanzo (CNR-Italy), Ionian Sea, 1 week.

Oct 2004

MFSTEP-Gliders, R/V Luigi Sanzo (CNR-Italy), Ionian Sea, 1 week.

Sep 2004

MFSTEP-Gliders, R/V Luigi Sanzo (CNR-Italy), Ionian Sea, 3 weeks.

Oct 2003


Glider tests (WRC, Falmouth, MA, USA), 1 week.

Jun 2003


MOVE, R/V Sonne (IFM-Germany), North Tropical Atlantic Ocean, 3 weeks.

Oct 2001


POMME4, R/V Ailette (SHOM-France), North Atlantic Ocean, 2 weeks.

Sep 2001


POMME3, R/V Thalassa (Ifremer-France), North Atlantic Ocean, 1 month.

Sep 2000


POMME0, R/V Thalassa (Ifremer-France), North Atlantic Ocean, 1 month.

Apr 2000


NORBAL, R/V Urania (CNR-Italy), Western Mediterranean Sea, 1 month.

                            tech: CTD, moorings, Lagrangian floats, and gliders




              Teaching


1999-2003

Graduate Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (44 h), ENSTA.
Undergraduate Uncompressible Fluid Mechanics (65 h), ENSTA.
Undergraduate Mathematics (96h), Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie.



               Languages


                      French, English, German, Swedish, Spanish.