Carbon cycles of the Anthropocene oceans

Research group based at CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

Welcome to the DEEP-C.


We are a research group primarily interested in the carbon cycles in the Anthropocene’s oceans. We use numerical models, laboratory experiments and in-situ observations to understand how sediments and organisms at the seafloor, a mostly unmapped environment that covers more than two thirds of our planet surface, regulate the climate of our planet. Our research also explores deep-sea currents, waves and tides, marine snow, and accurate predictions of seawater carbon species composition.
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Main questions that drive our research

  • In what extent are deep-sea environments entering the Anthropocene? 
  • How can humans mitigate climate change inspiring from natural, ocean-based processes? 
  • How are marine calcifying organisms affected by global changes?
  • How are human activities altering the sediment record? 

What we do, and how we do it, in a few pictures:

The CEREGE, in the plateau de l'Arbois, Aix-en-Provence
CEREGE is located in Provence, next to Marseille, that hosts the National Park of the Callanques
The RV Pelagia at the Cape Town port
Operating the multinet at night, to catch as much plankton as possible
MSc student Robin van Dijk looking at freshly retrieved pteropod samples
Closely watching a piece of the seafloor, that just came back from 5 km-deep
A reactor that reproduces pressures of up to 500 bars, to simulate abyssal environments in the lab
Lab-made ripple marks on a rotating sediment disk
A 3D, simulated stack of seashells, representing a typical deep-sea, carbonate-rich sediment
A map of the parts of the ocean that are experiencing human-made seafloor dissolution

Get in touch


Olivier Sulpis

Research scientist



CEREGE

CNRS

Technopôle de l'Arbois-Méditerranée
BP80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence
France




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